Even though they could just make their own Lemmy communities, or ask to be appointed as mods of existing ones...
It has custom user-made themes that are dark mode, so it probably has dozens of dark modes.
Umm... return to tradition, I guess??
A fun detail: this was written by a woman, priestess Enheduanna, the first writer that we know of by name.
Hell, a lot of the time I just go directly to Sci-Hub / Anna's Archive because it's literally faster than searching for my university and logging in.
This hasn't been reported on much, but I actually checked what that "competition" really was, back when the image won the prize. It was some local festival in Bumfucknowhere, USA, which among various other events (sport events, food tasting, that sort of stuff) included an art competition. I doubt the jury was made up of highly experienced art critics.
And besides, people should trust their own eyes. If you like the picture, you like it, and if you don't, you don't. Appealing to the critics as a source of objective artistic judgment is naive, and I say that as someone who has published some art criticism myself.
Absolutely the correct stance, nothing dirty about it. At this point, for better and for worse, the Internet is a basic necessity. Imagine having your water turned off because you threw water balloons at your neighbour.
Some of these have to be trolling.
At this point I'm impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must've have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.
For anyone who can't find them... :D
Damn, how did I even manage to miss that Simple apps have been bought off? I've used them for years and am still subscribed to the reddit community...
Some people suggest the action could possibly be deemed illegal, by breaking the licence the project was made under.
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837452672 - the dev's explanation, and replies which discuss the legal issues
https://old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/1893j2p/simple_mobile_tools_is_about_to_be_acquired/
The last part of your comment sounds like an ad straight out of those overlong YT videos.
Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn't know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I've always found stupid. So I don't think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.
OTOH, if they're low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??