Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.

But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.

I was aware that they made that change but I didn’t know it made it worse for tracker blocking. I don’t see ads and I don’t get the external discussions such as discus so it seems to work.

I’ll check it out.

Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

I’m scared for the cat. He deserves whatever happens but the cat doesn’t.

Not being from the US I didn’t know that. That takes something from being completely unreasonable to be understandable.

I can’t believe some fake rich guy on the internet lied to us!

Still, if they’re not idiots the winner doesn’t have to work again so they’re still good.

about a thousand subreddits have gone private.

That number ended up being more than 8000 and there are still more than 7000 in private or restricted mode. Although they are starting to come back online now.

He’s right though - it will pass. The question is, will Reddit be the same once it does pass? Will enough moderators and contributors leave to reduce the quality of the content?

Personally, I don’t really care anymore. I’m not going back if I can’t use a third party app and I haven’t had a problem using Lemmy for the past two days instead. I just need to find the best communities for me which will take time but I’m sure that it’ll be a good replacement.

Also, be very careful about who ultimately owns the domain name that you’re buying.

I know of someone who “bought” a domain for a ridiculous price and it turned out that they didn’t actually own it. The company registered it in their own name so that he wasn’t able to transfer it to another registrar and had to continue to pay the high fees if he wanted to keep the domain.

Well shady.

It’s not about wasting time and it’s not about trying to get users to come over to Lemmy today or tomorrow.

It’s about whether you contribute to the protest or not. If you log in to Reddit and start writing comments then you’ll be flagged as an active user for that day and will lessen the impact a small amount. If many did it as you’re suggesting we should then that will lessen the impact of the protest more.

Maybe he’s got confused and he’s going to delete all his posts and comments before deleting his account?

It is. We want their usage stats to show that users are objecting to their plans rather than just mods and app developers.

It needs an API key to function so they’ll disable the old key and generate a new one which they’ll keep private.

I don’t really get Twitter so I won’t but even if I did I would choose a Mastadon instance over a Meta product.

It’s mental that we need such a specialised role in journalism.