Where do they even find 28k mods on short notice.

Actually, their core message is “we’re protesting because the Reddit app’s mod tools make the job we do for free literally impossible.” They don’t like the 3rd party apps because they have a better UI, or because they block ads. They like them because the Reddit app is incapable of moderating a sub with millions of…

Amazon doesn’t own Reddit. From the Wikipedia article for Reddit:

Depends if they’re requiring them to ID check people who claim they’re over 18 when making an account. If that’s not a requirement, the law is a joke and nobody is going tell the truth about their age.

The difference, at least with other for-profit entities like FB and Insta, is that they have big in-house moderation teams (the effectiveness of which can be debated, but still) and don’t expect volunteers to handle it all. Add to that the fact that they want to cut off the ability of third-party moderation tools to…

A lot of posts end up with comment counts in the single digits (or none at all!), something that never used to happen. The ones which gain any sort of activity beyond that are the spicy takes which energize troll accounts, who then bait readers into participating. It’s depressing.

And communities are 100% within their rights to control the manner that their content is used/displayed. In this case, that is taking it down, and it is being taken down because revenue/price is a factor. It’s a two-way street, which is why this situation exists in the first place. If it was reddit’s content, it…

If you built up a platform based on the free labor of others, and then said screw you to that free labor as soon as it didn’t suit them. How would you react?

All that they are asking for is more time for these folks to adjust to the new API changes, which are unfairly priced out, so they can adjust. Instead of…

I mean, have you opened up a Gizmodo or AV Club article from 2012? None of those classic commenters are here anymore and a lowly article back then got 5x the number of total comments as in 2023.

This would only be true if Reddit were asking for a fee within the realm of possibility. The $12,000 for 50 million API calls is over 70x what similar platforms charge. It’s like posting a 2013 Honda Accord on Autotrader for over 1 million dollars.

This wasn’t about letting 3rd party devs “do whatever they want.” Christian Selig, the dev who created Apollo, admitted that paying for API was something that he knew would eventually have to happen. It was Reddit’s outrageous pricing and accelerated implementation of the charges that wouldn’t allow him to adjust…

Except that isn’t the issue at all. The issue is not if they should charge or even any limits they are putting on using the API. The issue is how much money they want and how much time the app devs have to implement changes.

good. it should have always been more than two days, but Spez fucked it up again.

Its more concerning to me that the big tech companies gather and sell this data than that the government is buying. Stop the data collection as a commodity for these firms to profit off of people. THe problem isn’t the government buying the info - its is that the info is for sale in the first place. 

The first season was a very good season of sci-fi television, but a terrible adaptation of the source material. But a faithful adaptation of the source material would have made for terrible television, so that’s probably for the best.

Frak.

Completely unnecessary. Good to modernise, but Star Wars is a different universe, so keep it that way as much as possible. Maintain the uniqueness, thereby keeping it what it is. As noted by Yellowfoot in regards to Firefly, their swearing methodology was great. It felt otherworldly and isn’t that what you want for an…

It actually made its first onscreen appearance in Return of the Jedi, though they were just random symbols at that point and any text you saw was basically just gibberish. Author Stephen Crane of West End Games took those symbols and assigned them to English letters to make the first standardized version of Aurebesh…

Galactic Basic, the main spoken language and the language of nearly all text you see in Star Wars media, is literally just English with a few replaced words and new slang (coffee is called “caf”, for example, and “kriff” is the usual substitute for “fuck”), and Aurebesh, the alphabet used to write Basic, is literally j…

Yeah, as someone pointed out last time this was discussed here, "fuck the empire" is likely a sentiment that these people hear and think every single day. Actually standing up and fighting back against them is the radical idea and call to arms.