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They have a definition, they just won’t tell the users because it’s not a realistic definition and they plan to pull the rug out later on.

If third-party apps were only 3% of total traffic and reddit was willing to destroy its image and massively increase the viability of its only competitor just before IPO over it, I’m sure they’ll have no problem getting rid of whatever percentage of blind people who can’t see the ads reddit wants to serve anyway.

Nah, reddit is taking so long with the data requests it’d probably be easier to just ask these guys.

But seriously, this confirmation makes reddit look so much worse right now.

You’re safe from the big bad scary communists on Lemmy.

Kbin.social doesn’t defederate lemmy.ml, so either way we’re playing by their “don’t say Uyghur genocide because we don’t think it’s real and we will ban you based on that belief” rules if we accidentally stumble into there.

This is where I would like to see individual-level instance blocking so that it doesn’t show up in the home feed, same as how I can block everything that pops up in a language I don’t speak.

Edit: Turns out we have that! Just found another thread showing how. On kbin, it’s possible to view entire instances separately, and there’s a “block” button similar to individual magazines/communities/users. To see lemmy.ml, the link would be

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml

but replacing the lemmy.ml part with any instance should take people to that instance just the same.

Yes they are. Facebook’s audience is as many people as possible, because their business is advertising based on collected data. They would ideally want literally everyone on the platform, but this is the real world and lowest common denominator makes more sense from a business standpoint.

Edit: Getting celebrities and influencers on-board is basically a requirement to get the average person to care, because they’re not on the platform to follow other average people.

On the upside, patents have an expiry date. Quite far from now, but if we make it to that, then we’ll just have ourselves a single common standard that everyone is free to use.

It just sucks in the meantime.

That’s what I’m hoping for. I don’t want a bunch of accounts depending on what device I’m using, I want to have one account on a platform that I like and have good interfaces for using it.

That’s why I left reddit, they removed my ability to do that by killing Boost.

Do Heelys count as wheeled devices? They’re shoes.

I used to use Boost, I stopped when they banned the community showing how to switch to kbin.

The fact of the matter is that I don’t care if something is a monopoly as long as it’s a monopoly for it’s quality. Reddit used to be that, a hub for damn near all of my interests, and I used Boost to make the experience great.

But reddit is getting worse with this change, so I’m here now.

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy.

See, it’s all this stuff that really makes the

Such slander doesn’t deserve any response

statement feel very Steve Huffman to me. It very clearly does deserve a response because the problem doesn’t end with just saying “nope lol that’s not us” and people like me have to go digging through all this bullshit just to figure out the facts: they believe anti-China news and similar is U.S./media propaganda and will moderate opposing viewpoints with “Orientalism” bans and similar. That’s not a hard statement to type, and if this viewpoint is in good faith then I struggle to see why they refuse to just say that and consistently resort to “if you don’t like our moderation policy feel free to join/start a different instance!” without ever actually clarifying the moderation policy. Even lemmygrad pretty much says outright “if you like capitalism, fuck off.”

Because it’s a Microsoft phone, not because it’s a bad idea.

I agree, that web page is awful and even as a generally tech-savvy person it steered me away from Lemmy. Only joined kbin after reddit banned it and I had a clear “join this thing, reddit doesn’t like it” sign.

While the ideal may be spreading users out across instances and federating, I think the fact is that reddit refugees probably just want to be directed to something popular they can join and get content from without hassle.

Name a more iconic duo?