The sad part is reddit actually used to be open-source. They've become what they wanted to destroy. Sad times.

They have no idea what they're doing. It's kind of hilarious but also really sad.

Might as well leave them down indefinitely. I'm gonna block reddit at the DNS level, I'm done.

Somehow I feel like they won't care, those reports probably go directly into the bin.

They are really trying hard to piss off all their users lol

To add onto this, when someone who can't afford something pirates something, there is no lost sale because there never was a sale there to begin with. It didn't take any money away from the company since they were never going to see any money from that person.

With that said, the only piracy I partake in is for archival purposes, and like you I buy Steam games regardless because it's too convenient like you said.

It's the only thing that will actually make a difference.

I wanna self-host my own instance so I have more control over my data.

You're not wrong lol though tbf 0.18.0 made Lemmy quite a bit more usable for me.

One of my older family members even mentioned that they heard about a Reddit blackout, so it definitely is being talked about.

They are trying to squeeze as much money out of their platforms as possible, regardless of the fact that it's at the expense of users and will downgrade users experiences.

I know this is a joke, but not only is KBin built on PHP, but so are Facebook, Pornhub, and Wikipedia.

It's kind of crazy how these popular services are always insistent on killing themselves off with these horrible changes.

I think it's important to care about the fact that Reddit and especially it's users are being squeezed dry by a profit-hungry CEO with a net worth of already more than 10 million. Reddit is becoming bastardized and that's not a good thing, we should be talking about that and protesting that, and realistically just moving away from that.

Yep. I feel like all of the high-value like high-quality posters are now here or elsewhere and are done with reddit. I used to post a ton on reddit, even across multiple accounts. Now I just post here. lol

This is 100% it. People who think giving additional traffic to reddit hurts reddit are very dumb lol

The only thing we could do is write join Lemmy and hope that more people will join Lemmy.

I feel like it will, I swear he has every redditor pissed off at him right now.

It's not like Spez is only some miniscule middle manager for reddit. He absolutely has a say in how things will go. He has shown who he really is.

Actually, to be fair, they're being paid salaries to work on Lemmy lol

Though the 0.18.0 update was quite nice and solved a lot of issues I had, so it's definitely cool to see how well it's progressing.

Oh, so that's why I can't land a job this year. lol