I was actually somewhat ok with going back to certain Reddit communities (although NOT just mindless scrolling) after the blackout. There's a lot of communities where (I thought) there's literally no alternatives.

Then came his latest wave of interviews attacking people that did their jobs for them (mods, Devs making a usable mobile app) and making insane hypocritical statements about "democracy" (everyone would gladly kick you out given the chance) and "landed gentry" (dude, if the mods are the out of touch landed gentry, that would make you the out of touch king, right?)

Why is he still giving interviews? Not like I even care about the company but seriously what good can he possibly do at this point, every day thousands more people leave for good.

Anyway, I seriously don't think I can use Reddit with a clear conscience, at all, anymore, at least for now. Every time I interact with the site (even with adblock) I can't help but think the entire time I am helping this millionaire megalomaniac's company keep continuing on.

I guess there's always the chance the board is letting him self destruct to offer him as the sacrificial lamb.

I honestly don't know if this will last in terms of me not using reddit at all, but every day this idiot opens his mouth is another day I'm not using reddit and another day I'm searching for and interacting with alternatives.

It can go one of a few ways.

1. Apart from the few subs that remain offline, it'll basically be back to normal. Those that do remain offline indefinitely just get forcibly reopened or recreated by admins, especially huge subreddits like /r/videos. Smaller ones just get redicted to /r/topicnew or some other creative name.

2. A lot of subreddits and more importantly moderators and users leave the site permanently. In order for this to happen however, there'd have to be a consensus alternative, which there isn't ATM. Otherwise, these communities are pretty much lost forever unless the mods put a message to go to X alternative service in the "subreddit is private" banner. Tbh, I don't think people are gonna stomach losing years of their lives in an instant so they'll just re create subreddits unless the mods provide an alternative.

No matter what though, they're not backing down on the effective removal of the API (still leaving the sneaky clause "you can pay us if you want but it'll be a king's ransom" for AI, even though they can just trawl the web manually lol). They'll probably announce some crappy customization features to hoodwink those who don't know what an API is and lie to them and say it's "API v2" or whatever.

I just honestly don't know how it's going to shake out and I'm scared im going to lose these communities. I don't give a single solitary fuck about Reddit the company anymore, and I never did really. I just hope all of the subreddits find a new home and don't just shrug their shoulders and say "welp, guess that's it guys".

This is on the mobile web, hasn't happened so far on the desktop site but I haven't been using desktop as much. So, sometimes just randomly although more often when I'm sorting by new on all (federated), infinite random posts from months or even years ago will just start randomly showing up and scrolling infinitely.

Might as well make a thread. Probably not a lot of overlap between car racing and lemmy i guess but i'm sure there's some people out there who like car racing (still on that fuckcars bandwagon though, cities should not be reliant on cars).

Interestingly, there's an unofficial yet tolerated i guess youtube stream of it (linked). Anyways its my first time watching (I've always been interested in the race, just never got round to watching) it's pretty interesting so far even if i don't know a lot of the teams/drivers.

Also, they, for the first time, have a literal nascar (heavy, no aerodynamics at all, designed to go in a circle) running alongside LMP (Le Mans Prototypes, cars literally designed for running 24 hours of this circuit, running centimeters off the ground, extreme amount of downforce so they speed around corners). Just completely different cars in the same race lol

Also its raining right now so watch, already getting spicy.

Edit: 3 cars in a row just spun out and crashed (at low speed, total aquaplane)

it is genuinely hard to believe how it could have gone worse

Sorry if I say something wrong, I'm not that experienced in this area.

So, when you connect to google.com, you're not connecting to one IP regardless of location. Your request is routed to the closest google server's ip address (using anycast? Yes, I just googled this lol).

I'm guessing the Lemmy servers don't do this yet? So, would it be best to sign up to a server near you, lag wise? Especially with the continuing and ever escalating avalanche of Reddit refugees to reach a zenith on June 12-14?

I'm making this post because I was thinking of making a small website or app thing showing new users a random instance (to reduce load on lemmy.ml or any one individual server). And then that becomes the default "go here to join Lemmy" link for new users. But then I realised I could get the IP (or manually input) location of the user and randomly choose an instance out of the pool of instances nearby.

Anyways, I'm probably not gonna do this myself because lazy (I know) but I think it'd be a good idea.