Yep. Reddit is going to die, the question was how quick and what do we do about it.

Like, reddit might stay around as another 9gag, but that's not really reddit then.

Is that some sort of ISP-level block?

Sounds like you need a VPN.

AMD's new naming scheme is also horrific

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/amd-is-making-laptop-cpu-model-numbers-simultaneously-less-and-more-confusing/

sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack

So, uh, an email?

fetch is the new XHR.

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide.

This is the part that I think will make it more difficult, since I imagine there are quite a few devs that would rather contribute to projects by less politically-outspoken project owners.

(I would also note that they don't deny being tankies, and tankies tend to insist they aren't fascists. They also deny the Uyghur genocide so they have that going for them too.)

If people really care there's also kbin, which is the same content just with a different (imo better) UI.

Aren't the flagship instances right now essentially lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? Maybe Beehaw once the re-federation gets figured out? And then kbin.social on the kbin side.

This only matters if you use lemmy.ml, which I would expect to be largely defederated at some point soonish.

Yeah, I still can't figure out what sort of mentality makes that seem like a good idea.

For Musk there's at least a chance of some sort of thought process going on there. Narcissistic people tend to think that everyone else is just like them (although maybe a lesser version of themselves.) Musk has had a very serious addiction to Twitter for a long time, therefore everyone has a very serious addiction to Twitter, therefore we can charge people a ton of money for their Twitter and since they can't leave they'll have to pay for it. And legal repercussions? Why, he's never seen those in his life!

Maybe spez is the same, just with a bunch of alt accounts so that he can post in /r/jailbait or whatever. I can see why he might want to turn reddit into 9gag if that's all he's ever used it for himself and isn't capable of understanding the concept of other people having different uses for it.

But at some point he must notice that it's not been going well? Right?

Part of "defund the police" includes "fund mental health services" using the money that used to pay for police and police accessories.

Copyleft is nothing like public domain. Licenses like the GPL would be considered copyleft, where the license itself is required to be maintained when distributing the work, allowing access to the sources that made the work.

It's also something that would have to be explicitly stated in the Terms of Service or something similar.

Because it usually happens to "those" people.