People use these systems as public spaces in which they can build communities
What really amused me is when Reddit sent messages to moderators saying things like "your subreddits are public spaces which users depend on, so you should open them".
When obviously what they mean is "your decision to close your subreddit is hurting our revenues, and if I don't keep up the payments on my BMW then I'll be forced to drive an old Honda, so either open the subreddit or we will forcibly do it ourselves".
Well, going outside is a good thing.
But if you still want online conversations then Kbin/Lemmy/Fediverse seems to be a viable ecosystem for that. Apparently Lemmy now has 370,000 users and Kbin has 43,000 users.
Well if only official Apple batteries will work, then that means Apple will jack up the price to something ridiculous, because they'll be the only option for a battery.
So hopefully third party batteries would work as well. I think third party batteries work in iPhones at the moment. So if we're able to install them much more easily then that would be very good.
Every country should do this. It's just a shame we have to wait until 2027 to see these phones.
I like it. But you'll have to do this manually for every post right?
I read someone saying that they tried to use automated tools to delete their posts (Shreddit I think) but Reddit was undoing the deletions, or something. So that's annoying if you have to change/delete every post manually.
I think it depends on the subreddit. Some subreddits I used were civil.
But now I don't want to use Reddit because of their hatred of their users. So I'm not using it for the moment.
Reddit: "we care about empathy"
Also Reddit: "we don't give a single fuck about our users' opinions and see them only as cattle to be milked for every advertising penny we can get"
Reddit just keep giving me countless reasons to not use their service.
Their stance is "we don't care what the users think - you WILL use our website and you WILL view our ads so that we WILL make money off you".
So my response is: no, I won't.
Also, why on Earth would Ukraine blow up their own infrastructure and cause flooding that has severely harmed their own people.
Meanwhile, Russia has a proven history of clandestine operations which they publicly deny. E.g. poisoning Sergei Skripal in 2018. The evidence that Russia did this is overwhelming, yet they deny it.
This is similar to me. I used Reddit's official app, so initially I wasn't bothered by 3rd party apps going away. But seeing Reddit's response, which is basically "users will bow down and do what we want, they will generate revenue for us and not complain, and we will never listen to them", is what made me not want to use Reddit again. So now I'm not using it.
Schrödinger's Redditor
Would it be easy to find new moderators though? Who would want to moderate for Reddit at this stage? I think most of the people who would show any interest in moderating are currently too angry with Reddit to want to do it.