Well I wouldn't say it's better but it's definitely less enshittified. Give it time, the owners of Sniffies have given no indication they have the ability to earn anyone's trust.
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I'm still using RIF with my own access token, what do you mean they are banned?
That $126,500 number refers to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), but it's not a hard threshold below which you're totally off the hook. U.S. citizens abroad still have to file a tax return if their income exceeds the standard filing requirement (around $14k+ for single filers). And the FEIE only applies to earned income, not investment income or retirement income. It's not automatic, you have to qualify under the bona fide residence or physical presence test, and file the right forms (like Form 2555) to claim it.
Even if you're making well under $126k, you still have to file, and you might owe something depending on your situation.
If it makes you feel better, even if you migrate to another country and gain citizenship, you still have to pay income taxes to the US.
At least have some dignity and be grounded in the reality of where this company is aligned politically. Reddit doesn't care about you or anything other than emulating everything Elon Musk does.
In other words an edition of Linux mint is finally getting a feature Ubuntu has for every variant, good for them I guess?
This system is so easily gamed by report spam. I've gotten multiple warnings on my account for "violence" removed after appealing, their system is automating this somehow and it's not doing a good job. Really that's just the story of Reddit for the past several years, they cast a wide net and piss off a lot of people now. They used to be a lot more hands-off but now they're just controlling fuckwits.
"Sorry, you fell into our labyrinth of regex filters arbitrarily imposed by an unvetted volunteer on a billion dollar publicly traded platform. Your opinion doesn't matter."
When they IP banned me, I just turned off wifi on my phone and created a new account with a separate browser. But looking back reddit was never worth it. We're all very addicted to this toxic form of crowd sourced moderated information. I'm not really convinced Lemmy is better on a design level, the upvote system is identical and doesn't prevent echo chambers. I guess there's autonomy with instances, so that's nice...
Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don't "respect the human". And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods' free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.
That's part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.
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A lot of people profile him as just a weird nerd and treat him like a digital punching bag, but I think it's a mistake to underestimate a censorship extremist who built an empire on unpaid labor. Ironically, the loudest "fuck this guy" comments often help him, because they reinforce the idea that opposition is just angry noise, not serious critique. That plays better in mainstream media than you’d think.