nefarious

All of these things have already been disclosed.

ActivityPub is a public standard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

kbin is open source. https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

Lemmy is also open source. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Google is your friend.

Eh, Windows-only software certainly seems like a valid reason to me. People are also allowed to have personal preferences.

Don't get me wrong. Linux is the only desktop OS I use. I've daily driven it on my personal machine for about 5 years and at work for about 6 months. I vastly prefer it over the alternatives, but I do put up with a fair amount of annoying bullshit (mainly graphics, sleep, and Bluetooth issues) that would probably be less of an issue on Windows (or macOS). I still use Linux because I can tolerate those problems in exchange for the benefits, but I can see why other people wouldn't want to.

I had wondered about this. I figured that all of these surveillance capitalist adtech/analytics companies would have to have some metrics on this.

What would be really nice to know is how the numbers look now that the blackout has been over for a while. A 6.6% drop is pretty tiny if it only lasted a day or two.

Could've been UPS using USPS for last-mile delivery. The OP is also from feddit.de so maybe they're not in the US.

The framing of "Go back to normal" or "Only sexy pictures of John Oliver" was clever. Lots of people are going to pick the funny option over the boring one in basically any low stakes poll, so even people who don't care much about the protest probably still voted for it.

There's also a lot more motivation for the people who are pissed about Reddit's changes vs. the people who just want their infinite feed of content back to its former state.

I bet similar scenarios play out with spez's whole "moderator democracy" idea.

This is exactly the kind of tactic that's needed now. If Reddit wants to end the blackout by force, then what else is there to do but make them regret it?