Honestly, if I didn't need chat apps like Slack for my job I'd be pretty content with one of these. They'd still be good as secondary phones, but unless they can support chat apps (without other online apps like FB, IG, and even browsers - so good luck with that) they can't be my only/main device.

Just finished watching it maybe ~2 hours ago. I agree with the 7/10. There were parts that were boring (and imo cringey), but overall it was interesting. Nothing game breaking and could be better, but still a good watch.

Yeah. Idk why some people think the goal was to kill reddit.

People who say stuff like what the person you're answering said are just being naive. To them, protest = boycott. Personally, i dislike retreating with tails between my legs (but I'm not going to try to convince people to do anything either way). They also seem to believe there are so many protestors that any action we do affects reddit so much. It's hilarious. They left reddit but retained reddit's black and white mentality.

What I don't understand is why that matters. Why make it an us vs them thing?

Because many protesters called reddit their home for years and would probably have never left if what happened didn't happen. They don't hate reddit - they hate what spez and the top management are doing to it.

In my case, there are still communities there that haven't moved here nor on other alternatives. You can say start a community, but that's being simplistic. It's hard to make a community when you're the only one active there.

Exactly what was achieved, nothing. The API blackouts showed the admins don't care what the community thinks or wants, and no amount of fuck spez on r/palce was going to change that.

I disagree. This is about money. This is about investors. This is about advertisers. It's the same reason why there are no ads on nsfw subs.

Sure, they can show investors/advertisers how much traffic there is, but they also can't hide how much turmoil there is. And we all know advertisers care about how their brand is perceived, while investors are also concerned about a site's stability. At the very least, it'll give them pause since there are other places to advertise without all the hate and instability.

Investors and businesses aren't (always) stupid. It's impossible to miss that many accounts on r/place were bots which means nothing to their goals (and even hinder them).

And the majority of R users will never care. That is my point. Most people go there for fun and do not care about anything else.

Everyone knows that. But what about the users who don't even know what's going on? What about those who want to leave but have no idea there are alternatives?

And don't bother telling me no one will come after learning about alternatives. Tons of us came here exactly because of that. It may not be a huge wave (probably a trickle, if that), but it's much better than nothing.

That will not change.

Then why bother protesting ANYTHING at this point? And I'm not talking about just reddit.

Honestly, even if the whole lemmy.world (for example) joins, it won't matter. The bots and streamers (and their fanbase) alone outnumber us too much for us to even make a dent on their traffic. People here are grossly underestimating the number of bots and reddit users. Like they think because some protestors join it's suddenly going to drastically shoot their engagement numbers up. Lol.

Another thing is that the number of people doing the protests are insignificant if you consider the botters and streamers. I mean, even if NONE of the protestors engage in r/place, it will barely touch their metrics.

This is anecdotal, but I saw one person in Discord claiming (and showing screenshots) of having 500+ bots. And that's just 1 person.

Idk if you're being serious, but "forums" is also accepted and isn't wrong.

I wish everyone is like you. I don't wear masks outdoors anymore, but I still do in places like malls where there are tons of strangers. They can get pretty uncomfortable, but if it helps me avoid covid, the flu, or even colds then I'm all for it.

Kudos to you. I've tried to degoogle myself (I'd say I was moderately successful until my last company came along), although it's been a pretty irritating ride. Now I'm still very sensitive when it comes to security and privacy but not to the extent I was before.

I misplaced my phone a few days ago and didn't think of looking for it until just yesterday. The only reason I did was for OTP for my banking apps (browser and Paypal still asked me for them). If not for those, I think I can pretty much go without a smartphone, tbh. My PC and laptop, though? Can't.

Running your own search engine sounds very interesting. How steep would the learning curve be? And is it feasible for only personal use?

When I purchase somethung, I prefer to own it instead of just renting it. Lol.

Or they can decide to shut down the instance. If you have the means to do so, consider donating to your friendly neighborhood host. Hosting an instance isn't free.