AllBetsAreOff @AllBetsAreOff@qoto.org

Well it took the better part of two days but I think I finally have enough of my web accounts switched off of my old Gmail to call that task complete. Now I can hopefully just block and forward emails as necessary.

@mythra oh no! I hope that works out. Sounds very not fun. Hopefully dog friendly hotel is nearby.

@un_ouragan yeah, that's my question. I'm sure there are many companies that would happily pay them large sums of money to provide that service.

Like if you had to choose between destroying the confidence of your users and charging people to solve a problem they care about, I know which I would choose.

#Unity seems to claiming

https://unity.com/pricing-updates

that they will be able to differentiate between legitimate installations and pirated installations. I find this hard to believe because if it is true, it would surely make more sense to me to sell that capability as an expensive premium feature.

@mjgardner Reddit isn't like other social networks, it relies on it's unpaid volunteer moderators (of which there are thousands) to keep content safe, relevant, and legal. Since moderators control the subreddits they moderate, they are also participating in the protest.

So reddit could forcibly bring subreddits public again, but without the thousands of moderators, that's likely to end poorly. Even if you ignore the flagrant abuse that would occur, the subreddits still would lose much of the community that makes them interesting places. In many ways subreddits are made by their community moderation.

@trinsec cool! Thanks for the detailed answer!

So I've been on @qoto.org for a while now, does anyone know what a very long post looks like to people outside the qoto instance? Can they still see the whole post? Does it get cut off?

So with all this #reddit stuff, here's question:

Reddit had almost 2 decades to figure out how to monetize it's platform in a way that didn't fundamentally destroy its value. Apparently they still haven't managed it.

So in light of the #fediverse, maybe it's just the case that the reddit 'model' never could have succeeded as a profit driven company, since it's so unusually reliant on volunteer run and moderated communities that seem to be at odds with a larger changes toward profit for the platform.

@CarstenPfeffer This looks great, I've been looking for a tool like this.