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in the interest of absolute pedantry, I'd like to point out that they do, in fact, have a publicly available API — it just costs money to use.

Now, on one hand, it's only 24 cents per 1000 API calls (which is very little for individual use, but adds up quickly for any sort of widely used tool or service). On the other hand, fuck reddit lol.

Wait, the FBI would help? How come?

thank you for the info, noted, incredibly based

thank you for the info, noted, incredibly based

it's actually not gerrymandering. it's not having a mayoral election at all, and just treating "mayor" as a hereditary, monarchist-style title.

it's actually not gerrymandering. it's not having a mayoral election at all, and just treating "mayor" as a hereditary, monarchist-style title.

Those 41 people are just asking for a Pumped-Up Kicks style resolution.

Those 41 people are just asking for a Pumped-Up Kicks style resolution.

They make them money because:

• they use reddit
• spez gets some nice usage stats to show off
• as a direct consequence, advertisers keep paying to put their ads
• also as a direct consequence, investors' confidence in reddit continues to recover; there's a real possibility that, when it IPOs, it will actually go for a decent price

Now, if enough people go commit ad-block, and advertisers somehow become wise to that fact... then maybe it will hurt reddit's bottom line (at which point spez will start trying to emulate youtube's anti-ad stuff).

But as it stands, especially if most of reddit's usage is through reddit's mobile app... I'm not really sure how you can block ads there.

ayy

Some social constructs are shortsighted and useless. Some are undeniably useful. However, even the ones we consider useful should be scrutinized for flaws. Otherwise we end up with an economic system that creates plenty of empty houses and scores of homeless people, and massive amounts of annual food waste while thousands upon thousands starve.

How would you say Bitwarden compares?

Well, if you host a server, you can either host it on the cloud (which costs $$$), or you can host it by yourself (if you have a spare computer that you can just use as a server). If you host it yourself, all you're really paying is the same stuff you already pay — internet and electricity.

Hosting a server for something like mumble, matrix, or lemmy only has the costs I mentioned above.

what's PluralKit?

tbh, Mumble pretty much just does voice chat and only voice chat, and just focuses on doing it well.

what's PluralKit?

tbh, Mumble pretty much just does voice chat and only voice chat, and just focuses on doing it well.

Really?

While it's true people don't say "I've joined ActivityPub", isn't that synonymous with "I've joined the Fediverse"? Besides, the organization behind it does market it that way — they themselves refer to it as "joining Matrix, using one of these clients" (Element, Fluffychat, etc). Like, that's what their website is called, and so is the Matrix server they host.

Their centralization is, I think, a little more advanced than Mastodon's. The organization that maintains the protocol regularly adds features to it, and then of course immediately updates their own client and server implementations to have those same, recently added features, meaning the other client and server implementations are always behind on at least a few features. It's becoming reminiscent of how the web browser spec is so bloated, and gets new stuff added to it with such regularity, that new browsers are basically impractical.

what are these awful, awful communities I should be staying away from