Yes. One is also a doctor. She got vaccinated earlier than most of us. Same with boosters.

Not to mention long COVID. Personally know at least 2 people who got it (myocarditis or something? Can’t remember).

“It is simply impossible to solve the issue of inflation in conditions … when the military-industrial complex receives unlimited funding, when everything they ask for is given to them, when the share of this military-industrial complex in the economy grows at a very rapid pace,”

Fuck Putin and his stupid war. It’s always the masses that suffer.

Yep. During my very short (6 mos) stint as a tech support rep for Dell, I’ve learned to assume your customer is an idiot. Even when they’re using techie terms or jargon (and at time more so). Never assume other things besides that or you’ll probably regret it.

You have to be very clear and precise. A single misunderstanding can take a simple problem a lot of time to get fixed.

14 is the new 6. Ngl, he looks young af.

Happy birthday!

Oh definitely. The bots there are a major problem, and reddit has absolutely no plans of anything anything about them. Probably one of the big reasons why discussions on lemmy/kbin feel different.

So we printed the entire Linux kernel source code including my driver in 5-pt font

Please tell me you used comic sans.

You don’t agree with the site, so you stop using it. If enough people do that, they lose money.

Maybe someone should tell them that’s never gonna happen, then? Because a lot of them seem to think the amount of protestors are more than enough to influence reddit traffic. I’m all for boycotting reddit (i was probably here earlier than most rexxitors - this is my 4th account due to looking for a good home instance), but stopping people from protesting is just wrong. Protesting doesn’t mean just boycotting.

let Lemmy/kbin grow naturally. As long as it maintains consistent positive growth, it will be a beautiful thing in some years.

As far as the Fediverse is concerned, I agree completely.

There’s no need to spam reddit.

There may be no need, but there certainly is a reason in some people’s minds.

Permission to use this in the future for similar comments. With credit, of course. You explained it better than i ever could.

I’m rooted and on LOS and can use any app I need (including banking apps, paypal, and netflix - i don’t use samsung/google pay). The only app i can’t get to work is one stupid food delivery app. It’s weird af.

Some people say the canvas is bigger this year. Idk if that’s true (I honestly can’t remember what happened in 2022), but if it is that’s probably their plan - make the canvas big enough so the details don’t show up (or aren’t obvious) when showing the entire thing.

If that’s not true, well, please don’t shoot me.

Could be, tbh. Or they thought it’d just alienate users more and add more controversy.

Yeah. It’s not that hard. And it’s not like there weren’t thousands (I’m not even exaggerating - it’s probably tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands) 1-karma 1-day-old accounts there for bots. So no, i did not cause reddit’s traffic to skyrocket, if that’s what you’re trying to get to.

Yeah. But that’s expected (it’s like encouraging violence on a real person). And it’s only 1 artwork among a sea of “fuck spez” lol. The snoo hung upside-down (Mussolini -style) wasn’t.

That guy edited comments criticizing him. He may be a sociopath but he’s different in that he’s onion-skinned too.

This. It’s honestly hilarious people keep parroting that “that’s still engagement” BS like we’re a force to be reckoned with compared to reddit.

It’s like getting $10 from Musk and thinking its6gonna hurt him in a significant way. Lmao.

Lol no. I’m definitely not invested. I just deleted the account I made for r/place literally half an hour ago and uninstalled the app.

I also don’t believe the protest failed because killing reddit was never my goal nor expectation. We’re on lemmy/kbin. That’s a win. There are people who think the way to win is to bring down reddit, but imho that’s simply impossible.

Enjoy your walk. :)

Unfortunately I can’t because there’s a storm here. :(

Ah. Interesting. Thanks for the link.

What I don’t understand is why that matters. Why make it an us vs them thing?

Because many protesters called reddit their home for years and would probably have never left if what happened didn’t happen. They don’t hate reddit - they hate what spez and the top management are doing to it.

In my case, there are still communities there that haven’t moved here nor on other alternatives. You can say start a community, but that’s being simplistic. It’s hard to make a community when you’re the only one active there.

Exactly what was achieved, nothing. The API blackouts showed the admins don’t care what the community thinks or wants, and no amount of fuck spez on r/palce was going to change that.

I disagree. This is about money. This is about investors. This is about advertisers. It’s the same reason why there are no ads on nsfw subs.

Sure, they can show investors/advertisers how much traffic there is, but they also can’t hide how much turmoil there is. And we all know advertisers care about how their brand is perceived, while investors are also concerned about a site’s stability. At the very least, it’ll give them pause since there are other places to advertise without all the hate and instability.

Investors and businesses aren’t (always) stupid. It’s impossible to miss that many accounts on r/place were bots which means nothing to their goals (and even hinder them).

And the majority of R users will never care. That is my point. Most people go there for fun and do not care about anything else.

Everyone knows that. But what about the users who don’t even know what’s going on? What about those who want to leave but have no idea there are alternatives?

And don’t bother telling me no one will come after learning about alternatives. Tons of us came here exactly because of that. It may not be a huge wave (probably a trickle, if that), but it’s much better than nothing.

That will not change.

Then why bother protesting ANYTHING at this point? And I’m not talking about just reddit.