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.

If the ads come to Prime, then I might cancel that. It’s already our least watched service and it’s been getting a free pass because of the next day delivery.

I don’t want to watch ads, I don’t want to pay an extra £30 per year to not see ads and I don’t need next day delivery often enough to keep it for that.

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.

Downvoting is a way to say you disagree with someone without getting into an argument.

Is that what it’s supposed to mean though? I understood it to mean that the comment either didn’t contribute to the discussion or it was actually detrimental to it.

I regularly used to upvote people that I replied to even if disagreed with them.

Obviously, if they’re being dicks then that’s a downvote.

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.

There were three ways to use it:

Free - limitations (things like a single account and can only comment, not post).

Pro - one off payment for the standard functionality.

Ultra - annual or monthly subscription for the enhanced functionally that did cost the dev money to operate.

Apparently you could pay a one off amount for a lifetime sub to the Ultra subscription but I didn’t see that option available to me (I’ma recent iPhone user)

The problem with that is that it’s not a sustainable business model for the app developers because of the way that mobile apps work.

Traditionally, consumer apps released a version that you bought and that was it. Next year there’d be a new version and you’d buy it if it offered features you wanted and not otherwise. The developer has the motivation to keep coming up with new features to get the repeat purchase.

Mobile apps don’t have the ability to do that. There’s one version which is the latest version so you buy it once and get free updates for life. The only regular income that the developer can get with this model is from new buyers. There’s only so many buyers in the market for a Reddit app (for any app really) so it’s difficult to make a pay cheque with that model.

The solution is either to provide the app for free and to show ads or move to a subscription model for extra features.

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.