I personnaly agree with you. If content is not supposed to be searchable, maybe don’t post it online. It is a different problem for writers, artists and possibly even journalists.

But I think it’s a fair debate - unfortuantely one that was one (or the only?) reason the whole reddit API debacle startetd.

On the other hand maybe Lemmy should allow certain communities allow an “only for members” view?

Nah. I’m good thanks. Maybe on a 90% sale.

But I’m not going to RE-buy what it should have been in the first place. And it’s not going to be.

I have not touched reddit since this debacle… I added a bunch of subreddits to my RSS reader, but I’m honestly not looking at it.

Unfortunately searching for information often brings me to a reddit post, but I’m trying to avoid it and so far found the information elsewhere.

yea. the whole thing smells like a dead fish in sun.

evolution works ok, I just don’t like the look and feel. There’s a lot of customization possible … but it’s just not for me somehow. so far the thunderbird beta is quite nice.

If that wasn’t abstract enough … there was Ren & Stimpy.

uh. that looks promising! I heard about it but that was a long time ago and I forgot. thanks @sibloure@beehaw.org :)

I always wished this would be on the 1.st setup startpage of every home router. ever. It would make me very happy

Same. And all I got was the one with 4 colours.

I’d want to love it…

but as ridiculous as it sounds, for something like this to be really useful to me I unfortunately need a mobile app. a web-app seems hard to realize for a real e2e encryption & sync - for my scenario :(

I’m aware how much effort this is already… it looks good but as much as I want to use it, I can’t due to my workflow requiring a mobile device app (iOS in my case)

but it does look really promising!

Reddit will never be normal again after this. Someone else said it recently - It doesn’t matter if only 5% (or less) of the user base leave because this 5% will most likely be the most passionate and active users actively creating content that is not advertisement.
In the long run; the content quality will decline because of that.

In addition, these statistics likely do not distinguish what is bot traffic that are scraping the site vs users. The bots will keep scraping.

Na thanks. I’ll never use windows ever again.

I agree fully, but I want to add that I would not suggest a freerange VPN.

Nothing is free on a free VPN - you pay with your data. It’s always a question of trust using any type of VPN, but a free VPN is 100% going to sell collected information to … whom ever.

Anything else. Yes. Save everything, leech everything. I hate streaming music… it makes no sense to me. A movie I watch once … mh. maybe. Anything else. Load it. Save it. Hoard it.