The blatant astroturfing is what really icked me out. From day one of the API changes, it was clear that Reddit had spun up the spin machine and had begun to misrepresent the issues.

The main one was how they tried to push the "they just want the API for free", "we're entitled to charge for our services" narrative.

The fact that the Reddit API scandal has now been spun into some 'battle' of salty users vs Reddit is, in microcosm, a win for Reddit. By all appearances, when viewed under that lens, they 'won'.

It was never a struggle, it was a statement of intent. And that statement of intent has, in my opinion, been actioned because here we are now, with a promising alternative.

Reddit will probably flourish under its new guise, accepting that isn't a sort of capitulation. Just move on.

So is this community just going through Reddit and verbatim reposting old threads?

Nobody in the real world cares about this though. The only context in which this pyramid has has any veracity is in the extremely rare case where you have a group of people who are interested in useful outcome.

Generally, people argue for the appearance of having won, so will resort to any and all measures regardless of their argumentative quality. In fact, the lower below the belt you can go, the more you will resonate with the layman.

Y'all massively underestimate the amount of trolls who will just pick whatever answer they think is the edgiest. Stop taking shit like this at face value.

Yeah that's my point. The fact they were suddenly asking for astronomical fees was conveniently skimmed over in favor of this 'greedy 3rd parties want stuff for free' narrative.

Everywhere Reddit goes, it takes the cringe with it, it seems.

He also continues to stick the boot into Spez and Reddit to this day.

What are you doing to your phones mate? I've had two androids in the last 8 years and only because I dropped the first one under a bus.

Give it time, man.

The allure of an easier or more comfortable alternative. It's never nice being forced out of your confort zone, but like any exercise worth doing, mental or physical, you never regret it in hindsight.

It's the same with most ways that we euphemise or censor words. It's so pathetically redundant because everyone knows what the word is supposed.to be. You may as well have said it.

Can someone explain how Jerboa up/downvotes aren't karma? I don't quite understand how karma isn't already a thing here.

This question has been asked like half a dozen times in this thread and still nobody has come up with a concrete response.

Same setup Love it.

Ah I see, so here, any 'karma' that is accrued is essentially just local to the thread and used to rank and sort comments therein.

But that's the fee for interaction in all of its forms.

If you were to meet someone new and refuse to give away any details about yourself, they would consider that incredibly secretive and the interaction will suffer. If you were to apply for a credit card and withhold your name and adress, the interaction will suffer and you will be denied.

It has and will always work this way, both inside and outside of social media.

If you can just hijack any and all "good" policies as inherently progressive then you're just a self-fuelling fire who wants to hate conservatives no matter what.

It's a shame that PM has garnered the reputation that he has. He's a legitimate legend of the industry and is clearly incredibly passionate and ambitious. Students study him and his games.

His recent track record of overpromising and underdelivering is no more egregious than the other major players in the space. Players that actually have more scope and resources to execute, to boot.

I hope he sticks the landing for something soon.

That is honestly such a pathetic content goblin retort.