Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there...!

But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.

Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I'd never go back. Fuck Spez.

I mean - there are protected classes, right? You can't say "no whites" or "no Jews", I'm not a religious man - but where's the line between a political ideology and a religious one?

Or am I totally mistaken and this is completely permitted in the states?

I guess you have to pick your poison.

Personally I can't think of a single traditional value worth preserving and I've got nothing worth conserving - given the pollution of the right that modern day corruption has completed, I'll stick to the lesser, at least until I can't dodge advertising anymore.

These things happen Tiff.

Rest assured that even if you yeeted the entire container into the ether deliberately, you're still going a better job than Spez. 💚

11yr r*ddit refugee here.

Franky - nothing short of torching it and rebuilding it from scratch.

Firing Spez is the bare minimum, but there's no guarantee that the successor won't be another moron oinker. Federating won't be profitable (not that R*ddit ever was) and there's no way that they'll be making every contributor a shareholder.

There's no way I'll be going back, the system will fail again because it's predicated on a flawed ideology.

"hide all child comments" was a much beloved feature on BaconReader, at least for me.

I also preferred the card view of content, and that all read content would get hidden.

But this is something new, so I'm trying not to compare them directly - I don't really want Lemmy to just be new Reddit, but something new.

Man, 144p AMVs were peak internet.

Filed a GDPR "right to erasure" request for mine - but I don't doubt that I'll be going to the ICO in 28 days because Spez has failed yet again.

Thanks for the thread, gave me a couple more tools to pursue...!

Reminder not to trust this view - Google your username with "site:reddit.com" and you'll no doubt find things that Reddit has chosen not to show you for... Reasons.

Samurai Batman was bad, I can't see this being anything different.

I'm not 100% up on USA law, but wouldn't this just be a civil matter?

Champion Tiff - it's a new frontier so all of these things I imagine will come with time.

This helped a lot 😁

Howdy fellow BRefugee. I love that everyone is leaving messages of love and farewells on the play store right now - BR is currently the #1 paid social app because of it haha.

Haven't yet deleted my 11y.o r*ddit account. I know there's content associated with it that I can't delete. Raised a GDPR "right to erasure" request that I am fully prepared to go to court to see enforced.

If u/Spez continues to make shitty decisions with the platform, but with respect to data privacy laws, he's going to be put over a barrel by the ICO, and he can kiss the idea of ever taking Reddit public goodbye.

A longish poem, quite emotionally challenging.

I’ve polished this anger and now it’s a knife.

What a line.

Double Lungo sounds like the kind of hit where you can hear colours for a bit. Coffee really needs to adopt the Final Fantasy magic naming convention.

Espresso

Espressa

Espressara

Espressaga

Espressaja

... alternatively...

Megaspresso

Gigaspresso

Teraspresso

Exaspresso

Zettaspresso 💥

Have we got any reps from ReVanced over here yet? It's not a federated or decentralised approach, but it at least removes the layer of scum enveloping YouTube.

Yeah, I saw that, I'm just not really interested in this kind of content but would like to keep the rest - but I guess I'm not that wedded to anything. Maybe someone will spin up a SFW alternative some time in the future.

This whole thing takes me right back to wild west internet days, or the first steps for Blockchain.

It's exciting to see what the community decides is best, and I'm looking forward to seeing if this takes off or at least becomes as natural to me (and others) as R*ddit was.

A lot of things I need to learn and un-learn.

Thanks for your insight - small comments like this are really helping me get my bearings here. 💚

Is this like a Lungo? Or Americano?

Either way - absolutely my preference, just unadulterated coffee.

I feel like I'm OOTL on þis one. What's with all the use of thorn?