I asked him if he felt that Apollo, rif for Reddit, and Sync, which all plan to shut down as a result of the pricing changes, don’t add value to Reddit. “Not as much as they take,” he says. “No way. They need to pay for this."

I don't think anyone has ever said they want the API to remain free, they just want a fairer price model and/or more time to allow existing year-long contracts to be valid. Why the sudden urgency to push out this stupidly high pricing model? The only time-critical event I can think of is Spez's precious IPO, and he's doing a great job at showing potential investors that everything's under control

/s ( <-- are we allowed to use that here?)

I wonder how long it'll be before they scrape the bottom of the barrel and send that message to me for closing the r/dfshow sub. The sub is a support community for my DF-SHOW Unix (and Unixlike) terminal file manager. I was planning on unveiling the sub as part of the 0.10 release of the project, however, the API drama kicked off before then.

If they do decide to forcefully reopen the sub by kicking the only moderator, who is the sole developer of the project and currently the only subscriber to the sub, then we'll know they're desperate!

I am one of those migrating to this platform. I already had issues with the server going down whilst trying to register. I think we're going to need a bigger boat server

Well, we all saw that coming, didn't we?

haha, it fell at the last hurdle, so close!

Hang on, if we (and by we, I mean those that still have Reddit accounts) will be able to vote out mods, why not demand that we have the ability to vote out the board too? They want more democracy? They should extend that to the whole of the platform. Seems reasonable to me.

BlackCat announced it would delete the information if Reddit gives it $4.5 million and reverses API price increases.

Now, unlike Christian Selig asking for $10 million to essentially sell Apollo to Reddit, this actually is a threat. Let's see what Steve Huffman's response to this is...

Just waiting for Reddit to say the mods aren't doing a good job and replace them, ironically, with fully-sighted mods.

So basically, we can now vote out the mods and post what we want on subreddits? And if the new mods don't like what we post, we vote them out too? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Same for KDE, in fact, I would go as far as saying that most Windows users could find their way around KDE very easily within a matter of minutes.

We're currently in that weird limbo phase. Too late to use Apollo, too early to use Artemis. It truly is a weird time.

Great seeing there's quick progress on this, though. Thank you!

I feel sorry for those small, understaffed, enterprises that had to scramble to get off CentOS 8, and may now be in the same situation with Alma/Rocky 8. IBM/Redhat have really fucked over potential customers. What a great advert to ensure no-one buys your product.

If IBM actually cared, they could have still gone down this route. But they could have let CentOS 8 run it's initial, promised, support cycle, then switch exclusively to CentOS stream. And continue to provide the source for the entire run of RHEL 9.

Is this a lost Lemming?

That's the solution I've ended up going with too. Hoping to get my hands on the iOS Beta of Artemis soon, though.

Heck, imagine if Reddit didn't charge so much for their API, I'm sure someone would eventually wrap an integration to drag Reddit kicking and screaming into the Fediverse

There are no 3rd party apps yet. But nothing is stopping one from being made. I'm happy to use a web browser to use Kbin until a more rounded App comes along.

I know it's already been posted there, but for more kbin customisations, have a look at the @kbinStyles magazine

I tried to come up with a witty reply, but sadly that's not my forte.

In most cases, when the EU passes a law to make something happen, it's cheaper for manufacturers to make that EU-compliant device available worldwide rather than make a specific version just for the EU market. So, I'd expect user-replaceable batteries in flagship smartphones to be available in the US by 2027 also.

For me, it's not about being able to replace the battery more quickly, but instead being able to take out a battery that's decided it's not happy being size zero and would rather embrace its inner plus size lifestyle. Strangely enough, an enclosed device isn't happy when a sealed-in battery decides it wants to take up 3 times the space that's been allocated in the device for it.