I think at this stage removing it would be equivalent to tattooing "assassinate me" on his forehead.
Look I hate the guy too and he doesn't deserve his freedom, but there's a large number of people in this world who would love to merc a former POTUS regardless of who that POTUS is or what they did. And frankly Trump is more dangerous as a martyr than he is alive and alone on house arrest for the rest of his life.
so I don’t really get what this accomplishes.
It weakens reddit's ability to use that data for their own AI models. That is the reason for the whole api kerfluffle in the first place, there's no other way to block other AIs from crawling the data for content. OpenAI and others likely made tens if not hundreds of millions off the content in reddit in the last few years, and they paid reddit nothing for it. It's got reddit admins and executives really pissed off.
Thing is, Reddit paid me nothing for the content too though. At the end of the day I don't want my content propping up another fascist billionaire social media mogul with an ego problem, not even a little bit. They burned their bridge so I took my toys and left.
Most human like thing about it yet, in fact.
Google Power Delete Suite. Don't leave your content there for them to use.
Honestly is it all that sad? In a way it's beautiful.
Buddhist monks spend weeks or months constructing sand mandalas on the stone floors of a temple, only to sweep it up immediately upon finishing it. They are beautiful works of art, but their real value to the monks lies in the process of their creation. What reason is there to hold on to it? Instead, take the lessons learned and bring those with you, go forth and create new mandalas more exquisite than before.
I just deleted well over 10 million words from my comment history, many things I've read over and over and many I never thought about again. I'm still the same person, in fact I'm stronger for it. No need to hold on to the past.
I feel like the hurdles are kind of features. If your elderly parents can't figure out then they can't well flood it with trash. Reddit was the same way at first, oh so long ago. People weren't used to the format and users without any tech savvy were dissuaded from entry. That turned into a libertarian foundation. This time around the generations that are tech savvy aren't libertarians, they're progressives. So we're seeing a progressive foundation in the federation become established, and that's going to narrate the future culture here, just like libertarians narrated the culture of reddit for so long.
He's already overridden people blocking him. You still see his posts.
He's just trying to make sure it stays useful as a weapon for fascists like himself is all.
"I thought you was corn". I say it whenever I startle someone.
New? Never left. Piracy is mainstream. People stream things all day from all kinds of shady streaming sites, but they get to watch what they want.
Just be an American trying to watch Australian television. Pain in the ass to find anywhere but my wife finds stream links on Facebook -- Piracy is mainstream.
Which by the way, if you ever enjoyed the show Survivor, Australian Survivor is actually better. It's my guilty pleasure. Australian Survivor is on a whole other level.
Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, and others are all "federated apps" connected to ActivityPub. They are just different UIs to connect to it, so you can see posts and content from one on the others.
Mastodon is a UI inspired by Twitter.
Lemmy is a UI inspired by reddit. It is more stable but less feature rich. You can get native apps just like with reddit, such as Jerboa (similar to rif).
Kbin is a UI inspired by reddit. It is more feature rich and less stable (said to be, anyway).
They are all speaking the same protocol though. So while you can load Mastodon posts in this Lemmy ui they might look ... off. Similarly you can load things in Mastodon from kbin etc and they too might seem weird. It's because they're not giving the same context you might get viewing that content in the UI it was made for.
These are all still new with Mastodon being the one most widely adopted already. So expect better features and bug fixes to roll out over time. Especially with so much more demand now, I'm guessing many old 3PA devs have already been working out new tricks for ActivityPub.
That's the sub they're referring to but it isn't true. Spez is a shit but that's deliberate misinformation.
Reddit history time - back then you could make someone a mod of a subreddit and it would accept that "request" automatically. So you could make Barack Obama a moderator of your sub and it would list him. This was a very popular and silly thing done all over without any malicious intent.
Well the guy who ran jailbait, violentacrez, did this to spez with the jailbait sub. He then shared that spez was a mod there and many users "confirmed" it, until the mounting pressure got brought to his attention and he removed himself. Shortly after you had to accept moderator positions when they were offered, it was no longer automatic, and I'm pretty sure around the same time is when the sub finally got banned.
The folks in dankmemes are old edgelords who probably frequented jailbait, they're bringing up an old joke they pulled on spez since he's in the hot seat. Don't repeat their tripe, instead point out how Huffman once implied he expects he will be able to buy slaves in the near future and looks forward to such a day with anxious anticipation.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Fun fact! COVID gave us a huge dataset of faces with masks on. Facial recognition software beats masks now with 99% accuracy.
Mask up seditionists, you'll be fine! Trust me!