When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

Lol. Monkey JPEGs get funged.

Finally. Maybe the world's biggest store, the world's biggest CDN and webhost, and the world's biggest logistics network shouldn't be under one roof.

And this is why software should always be offline and installed from media. My copy of Photoshop 6(CS1) doesn't care what I do with it, it's software that does a job. I've tried updated CS versions of Photoshop thanks to friends and other means, and frankly? CS1 does all of what I need or want, and very little of what I don't.

Working with software not installed and accessible on an airgapped offline machine is a bad idea.

It's very rare for me to want Facebook to win a lawsuit. It's just as rare for me to want to see Sarah Silverman not succeed. But in this case, I think the Internet needs to see Facebook win.

It's a fundamental question about society: which is more prevalent, fear or laziness? They had no reason to move until their program stopped working. Now, it's not going to work anymore. But I don't believe we'll see a massive adoption wave. People are still confused about the nature of the Fediverse, and they're too scared by their ignorance to get over it and bite the bullet.

Unfortunately, those that do take the plunge will find that most Fediverse client software is in beta, or less than fully functional. Laziness will keep them away. Fear will push them to other monolithic platforms. So my thought is that it's going to drive traffic to Meta's properties for the time being, at least at this time.

It's because very suddenly, users of RIF and Apollo are going to be locked out of Reddit, and people think they'll migrate here, rather than going to the official Reddit mobile software (as a RedReader user, I've switched over), or going to Facebook/Instagram.

Wow...

I'm sure users will step forward if they care. Otherwise, it's just a campaign optimization at work. Limit the breadth of organic content to deepen the brand-friendly content and push more paid media into the feed.

I'm absolutely of the mindset that all non-comment interactions should be totally anonymous. I'm disincentivized to react to content, positively or (especially) negatively, because I expect that the Reddit-style behavior of trawling a user's history if you disagree with them is commonplace. We need full anonymity - not just pseudonymity.

Hollow & petty gestures don't help.

That's very rude, harmful to users, and will only serve to have the sub taken away from the mods doing that. It's a very bad idea. I do suggest using only the tools provided by the website. But don't use the NSFW tag erroneously, because that will get mod powers taken away.