You’ve been paying the Apple Tax!

After Snowden’s efforts at showing what America was capable of nearly 10 years ago, I’m not at all interested in letting that country have my data

What a shock to read. I love his books, his story, what he achieved and how he did it all. The world was a better and safer place with Kevin in it.

What a sad day to lose someone like that.

Agreed with this.

A few years back it seemed better: fewer people meant recognised faces, regular chats, and almost a community feeling. I was in some kind of Linux instance.

Being much younger than most threw people off though, and I ended up feeling a little…on-the-outside and left.

I hopped on a week back and it feels so different now. Less community-oriented and all I find interesting is searching a hashtag and leaving.

I don’t know, maybe reddit (before the death) and lemmy have spoiled me, it just seems like random thoughts above all now.

Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?

Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me

Here is a site which removes paywalls for you, for future reference!

Why am I not surprised?

What annoys me the most is the stance he keeps trying to project that reddit is just a a ‘poor lil company, never any profit, just a little fish’.

Hearing that he wants to bring in the ability to oust established moderators by votes?

Good luck, who wants to literally give their time and energy to this company now for free? Not me anymore.

What a sad, sad interview.

Me too, going to look into this one!

It is the techical help that hurts the most. Raspberry Pi, Linx and Steam Deck are the big ones I find help for on Reddit.

But to be fair it just encourages me to search harder elsewhere, or better yet forces me to tinker more myself to find the solutions.

Regardless, it is a wealth of users that the users have given for free for so long.

I used my sister’s laptop last weekend, she has no interest in ad blocking and uses Google as her search engine.

It was awful. I’d forgotten just how invasive and forceful regular internet is.

SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone make me realise when I watch something on my Xbox just how bad regular viewing can be

Chatted with the moderator teams for the subs I am a part of. Two of them agreed we’ll go dark indefinitely, and we have joined in on that via ModCoord’s post.

The largest with just under 1m users is still thinking about it, but I’m fighting for it.

We need to push them where it hurts: active users for their ads to be used on.

I hope you find your time here enjoyable!

Feel free to send me a message here if you need any help, but this community really feels like a community.

Showing 6,149 of 7,265 dark for me!

On two we presented the options abailable (Lemmy, Mastodon, Usnet and so on), on the biggest we didn’t do that. It was a last-minute announcement, so didn’t really have the time (also too many cooks with different recipes, so to speak).

I’m sure it won’t matter in the long run, but should we not try? A giant company runs on advertising. And the time we stop users interacting and engaging with these ads can only be a good thing.

As I’m writing this, 4,669 of 6,934 subs have gone dark.

Its beautiful to see.

Just flipped the switch (so to speak) on a couple subs I moderate, and the largest (just shy of 1m users) will be going dark in a few hours.

What surprised me most is how well the members are took it. To be fair the subs I moderated are typically quite tech-minded, so everyone is quite in-the-know with what is happening and why.

It makes me furious that a site built and maintained by the users is being exploited at the users’ expense.

I hope Reddit bleeds money from this silly line they drew in the sand.

I’m done.

The subs I moderated have either gone dark, or are going dark in the next ciuple days.

And with that I let the mod teams I was a part of know that I am moving on. I hate what reddit did to the community, and my time feels better spent where it will be appreciated.

Hahahahahhahahah, wouldn’t miss it for the world. But being admins, I imagine it won’t be fairly represented.

I’ll see you there, though!

Will you close your accounts?

I’m quite torn. The various gaming subs I mod have great teams, and are generally great communities. I legit feel like I am doing them a disservice by stepping down and closing accounts at the end of the month.

But doing the work for a company who has no regard for the reason it is a success stings more than the feeling I’ll be abandoning some teams of passionate individuals.

I love the ‘old’ feeling of the internet on here. What I miss from forums in the '90’s. I feel like this is the best decision.

But actions speak louder than words. They don’t deserve users who they abuse.

Ironically, a couple had already been started! So, I guess I can sit back now and be a participant more than moderating.

I did write to one, letting them know I was available to help, but never heard back.

I have posted more on here in a week than I have in years on Reddit. I think it is best.