And this is why things like pirating are not only acceptable but necessary. When companies lock services behind paywalls for products we should legally own, we are left with no recourse but to obtain the services we are owed illegally.

Not to be the fly in the ointment, but you can't really just add those up and expect that number to be accurate if we're trying to look at unique users within the fediverse. If I had to hazard a guess, a not-so-insignificant chunk of those probably overlap (i.e. users who have made multiple accounts across several instances). I have made an account across lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, kbin and fedia just as backups in case one instance fails. I might be an extreme case having 4, but pretty sure it's becoming increasingly common for people to have at least 2 accounts (1 on a different instance).

You forgot to add the "Edit: " part because they always have to come back and edit every 2 minutes.

Edit: "Whoa my first gold! Thanks!"

Edit2: "Wow this is silly, thanks everyone!"

Edit3: "While you're here, let me tell you my life story."

EditAdNauseum: High pitched ear ringing

Ahahaha I love malicious compliance. I sincerely hope they do that.

"There isn't porn like that."

https://i.imgur.com/6TTc8hc.gifv

Guess it's hard to type coherently when you're eating shit

That's a fucking meme worthy face if ever I've seen one lmao

We need to make sure we come up with a way to enforce it as well!

While the authenticity of this is dubious, I don't think OP knows what a pyramid scheme is...

Look up MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) schemes if you need a reference point.

Tell me you're from Texas without actually telling me you're from Texas

This just in: People guilty of thing are accused of doing the thing.

No shit. It's their fault. SCOTUS and GOP should be blamed.

Boobs + Pussy = Bussy right?... Right??

Evel

I must be weird, or maybe it's because I used to date someone like Grey, but the impression I got about green is not that they said that because they didn't want to go out anyway, it was that they were glad grey revealed themselves to be uninterested in them even if it was kind of in a sleazeball way, acting like it was just fine to cancel last minute to go be with someone else.

More like green was happy grey pretty much just sent up a red flag and confirmed that they dodged a bullet.

Right? I was like, "Who the fuck in the US is saying ANY of that?"

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin

They misspelled republican in disguise wrong

Came here to say this as well. As funny as this would be if it were an accident, just prior to me going scorched earth on my accounts I saw several subreddits in protest that made everyone subscribed to their sub a mod, and confirmed it myself.

It's very likely a subreddit that the person was subbed to and forgot/didn't know they were doing that.

Why let them have all that content you provided though? Don't get me wrong what you all do with your accounts is your business. I'm not about to be that person that comes barging in with "YOU NEED TO DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT", but if it helps lend any credibility to what I have to say - I was on there for over a decade with over 150k karma (99% of that comment karma so I participated a lot in discussions over the years) and as difficult as it was, I deleted my post/comment history and then my account. I don't want to support them by allowing them to profit off of my free labor/efforts.

Not saying every single comment I made was gold or worth much, but if it helps them to pump up their numbers for advertisers/stockholders then I'd just as soon remove my contribution.

Why didn't I think of buying a lake house!?