I don't get it, I've seen so many of these posts recently. Why is mine still working?!
I have a theory. Boost is limited to the OAuth threshold for requests. Hits the wall and people get limited. Some of them make posts like this ^, people quit Boost assuming that it's dead, less users brings Boost back under the limit again, people make threads saying Boost works again, people start using Boost again, Boost hits the request wall again and people ge-
Repeat and nauseam.
So confusing.
It isn't unnecessary at all, if you're Meta.
Which is the fundamental issue with a system like that.
The priority is in the wrong damn place.
Why would you, when Meta will do it for free?
Upvoted for the random Vorador reference.
Then if those people come in, we can just ban them and send them back to Stormfront or whatever rock they crawled out from under.
There's no reason to surrender the name of our community to them based on absolutely nothing. The very idea is asanine.
Would make it a little like work email addresses too.
Say, if NYT had their own instance and disabled open sign-ups for user accounts, you could be certain that any account posting from that instance is a legit NYT account.
This right here.
It's not about disliking some community that someone personally disagrees with for whatever reason, it's about trying to not have the entire system taken down by a vastly powerful corporate entity with an almost endless track record of being consistently malignant.
because regardless of its history, at best it’s been co-opted by hateful people (IE the locked thread) and at its worse it’s a dog whistle for authoritarian/racist behavior.
Well, that sounds nice, but you seem to have forgotten to bring literally anything to back up any of that.
At no point in time do I remember going onto r/pcmasterrace and thinking "wow, this place turned into a rightwing shithole, where did all of the nazis come from?".
Just because you say that everything's been co-opted doesn't mean that it has just because you don't like the name for arbitrary reasons.
This whole thing is an argument about nothing.
Sorry Elon, but...
I'm fairly sure you don't get to axe most of your staff, refuse (illegally) to pay their severance packages and then sue another company because they hired your now, ex-employees, on the grounds that it's stealing from your company...
If this were just some problematic instance (or a group of them, even) I'd entirely agree with you, but this is Facebook, the damage that they're almost certainly planning and are entirely capable of requires (at least in my opinion), a different solution.
Please note that I'm suggesting this as an entirely unusual solution to a very unusual problem. Not as some sort of standard practice.
I know that it's just me being cynical, but in my head, there's no way that the "other" category isn't by far the largest one out of them all.