Funny coming from a techbro that thought to farm out getting site content from that userbase he's now wanting money from.
Like I get it if he's wanting to not go into debt, but at the same time he's shot any chance at user good will and assistance in the face with a cluster fat man.
'I don't remember getting paid for dealing with your bullshit.'
Not entirely helpful. I want to hope you're trying to be helpful rather than sarcastic but links to follow rather than an image would be more useful.
I doubt they actually have been. I suspect this is the excuse they're going to use to enforce normalcy t oreturn. 'Oh all those subs? that was a psyop from blackcat. We de-platformed their mods to ensure that any influince is gone.'
tips tinfoil hat
But seriously. paranoia is a bullshit disease.
The writers demands seem quite reasonable and I hope that this conflict is resolved.
One authoritarian agreeing with another.
He's realized that glomming onto Elmo is the only way he's going to get friends who can help.
Still getting used to things here, but I have to say dark mode is damned nice.
So far my major issue is 'why isn't the reply thing right at the bottom of the post and is instead at the bottom of the replies?'
Yea... that's f'ing disgusting.
Reddit gave the 'fuck you' price for third party apps, then the guy in charge lied through his teeth about convrosations that has happened.
Deleted my reddit account. Twitter lost my patronage. Soo too will reddit. I'm not putting up with this noise.
I come from the era of the BBS. The PHP Forum. SlashDot, and Digg. I come from online games ranging from EverQuest, to Multiverse Crisis MUSH, to Moments in Tyme, to Warframe, and More. I have walked messenger clients from the times of AiM, IRC and Yahoo, to Skype, Steam, and Discord.
In my thirty years of being online, this is not the first petty tyrant claiming that upset users are the problem rather than taking a long hard look in the mirror. This will not be the last.
The best we can do is grab popcorn and watch as his platform dies. He won't admit to making any mistakes. Especially with money involved because he's under the deluded belief that showing any weakness invites a price drop from investors. Yet this behavior? It REEKS of weakness and insecurity.
Migrate and Move On. the rest is just playing u/spez's game.