Remember Marauder, whose title screen featured a loop of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” theme song? (This, after the packaging warned that this program was only supposed to be used to make legal copies?)

Wouldn’t “Elon Mode” mean you’re guaranteed to wreck everything?

Not really. It looks like they’re planning another case of “malicious compliance.”

Never been a mod, never had a bot…but I got it, too.

Sorry, those other three are clearly not the heads of Reddit. They have more intelligence, humanity…and at least one capable of Counting.

Not just scummy, but dictatorial in the stupidest possible way. It’s basically like a parent, unable to justify an unreasonable edict, ending any discussion with a “because I said so, that’s why!”

If spez didn’t exist, an author of dystopian capitalism fiction would have had to invent him.

OMG…Capstone Software. When I was doing game programming, our development company did several games for them. Generally, they paid developers if and when they felt like it, which is why starting a project with them didn’t necessarily mean it would ever get finished. On the bright side, their testers put in the minimum effort, so we could sneak interesting things into the dialogue without them noticing. They were known in our company as “Crapstone.”

What an ass. I hope this gets some mods still over there to move here.

It does seem like a rather ugly design.

I’m sure Canada is devastated by the news.

I’m still struck by the realization that, apparently, Hasbro no longer exists. It’s like a part of my childhood just died.

That “pattern” has been around for at least fifty years. This is merely a continuation of it.

I would think, in Canada, such behavior would merit a hate crimes charge, since they don’t worship at the altar of FREEZE PEACH like we do here in the U.S.

“No one cares, trust me bro”…until their dealer (corporate Reddit) decides to start charging for their fix, or else nukes their favorite subreddit to make the whole place more investor-friendly. Then, it will be “HOW DARE THEY???”

It might…but, then again, once the API is closed and the “objectionable” subreddits are banned in order to prepare for an IPO, the resulting landscape there might be much the same as when the blackout was in force.

Just think – he’ll also get the opportunity to become the first president to be criminally convicted imprisoned.

TBH, this is the first time I’ve ever heard of legal torrent sites. I know LibreOffice makes its product available via torrenting, but that’s really about it.

I’ve got to hand it to them, they did an effective job of suppressing Lemmy – I never even heard of its existence until last night.

The “tipping point” will happen when a) enough of the popular subreddits get their equivalent here, and b) when people make a point of turning posts into discussions. The experience of making a comment and then…nothing isn’t the sort of think likely to sustain itself.