I’ve been looking for an alternative for a while now, and am quite sure I’ve found it.
biff
joined 2 years ago
It may be separate from the API issue, but the purpose is still the same: to monetize your eyeballs at the expense of everything else.
I sub to them all, and then order the communities to fight each other. The last community standing is the winner. Surprisingly, none of this has ever happened yet.
topics naturally.
Give it time, eventually most new users that plan to stay will move off to other
Wow, it is impressive to watch subs go dark in solidarity and their names light up green! Well done to all of them! 🤘
That explains why I like it here.
Older audience member here. I remember seeing the DOS 2.0 box sitting on my grandfather’s shelf, and him teaching me hours to use the CLI to make in inventory of my baseball cards.
I must’ve been about 5-6 years old then, and I later got to experience the absolute magic of 14.4 and still later that fad of whatever those .mp3 things were supposed to be…
I left reddit and made the effort to learn how these newfangled federal sites work, and I’ll keep at it. Never did quite understand what that clock social platform was about, or why the youngers like it so much, though suspect that’s by design.
The signup delay is very confusing, I agree. To make matters worse, in some instances there’s no indication that your request even gets through, so the instructions basically say to try again, even if you’ve already lost your username.
This could fall under the umbrella term of EETs: Enhanced Enshittification Techniques.
Even more targeted advertising aimed at reddit users.
damn baud rate