Just because people use "for the children" in inappropriate scenarios to further an agenda has nothing to do with this discussion and you know it.
If you make a tool to essentially hide people's activity online, you KNOW what it's going to ultimately be used for.
...and you clearly think it's worth the trade off. So no need to continue
Seriously. This is not in any way new - it's just that now people feel more comfortable saying the quiet part out loud.
They don't actually believe in the teachings of their religion. It's just a convenient armor they can cloak themselves in to deflect criticism.
Yeah, it's a lot to pay for a keyboard that might not work out for you. That's why I suggest the Logitech.
I'd prefer one without the numpad, personally like the old Microsoft Sculpt, but for some reason MS refuses to update that keyboard to a more modern, lower latency wireless tech.
I'm currently flirting with some of the mechanical options like the Moonlander, but haven't yet pulled the trigger on that one.
As for the mouse, seriously the vertical mouse made a HUGE difference for me. More than the keyboard honestly.
BUILD SOMETHING.
Learning concepts without the ability to apply them are essentially useless.
Get your hands dirty and build something that would be valuable to you and solve a problem for yourself.
Don't get hung up on doing it "right". Focus on making it work. Don't worry about how it'll work for a million users. Right now your focus is on making it work for one user.
As you go you'll hit walls. Research how to get past them and keep going. Again, you're going to make mistakes. DO NOT GET HUNG UP ON THIS.
Making mistakes is part of the journey. Even the best software engineers in the world rarely get things right their first try. It's part of the process.
I feel like we're splitting hairs here. MIT is an extremely permissible license. The fact someone could take this and make a closed source fork doesn't affect the existence or openness of the MIT licensed releases
https://github.com/bluesky-social
Even their web and mobile clients are FOSS
The FUD and misinformation on here about Bluesky an AT is wild
Bluesky is still in beta. It's intentionally not open to the general public because federation hasn't yet been opened up and they only have one instance running.
The nice thing about Bluesky's architecture (over ActivityPub) is the fact your content and identity is portable. So you can move over to a different instance as they start to come online.
I think the important takeaway from articles like this is the fundamental misunderstanding of decentralized social protocols. It shouldn't be on one central authority how things are moderated globally. These kinds of articles kind of prove the point.
Buy the cheapest MacBook model you can find with an M-series chip and as much RAM as you can stomach the cost for.
I'd say 8gb is barrrrre minimum for doing app development. You'll want 16gb.
Listen, I'm the last person you'd expect to recommend a Mac. I am an Android guy. No other Apple products in my place.
...but I've owned every top end model from pretty much every relevant PC manufacturer just trying to find something as reliable, hassle free, and well built as my work Mac and it just doesn't exist.
The MacBooks are just in a whole other class. The battery life, the standby time, the speed of those M1/2 chips, runs cool and quiet.
I'm neutral on MacOS. It tends to stay out of my way. I don't use any of the Apple apps. It is usually stable as hell. My work MBP currently has an up time of 68 days without a reboot, and the only reason it rebooted last time was for security patches.
Build quality is unmatched, screen is great, trackpad is still a generation ahead of anything else, keyboard is great.
I accept my fate, Fediverse. Roast away
I actually winced
I think Reddit does have a legitimate argument that the scales have tipped and Reddit eating the costs of "whales" abusing their APIs for for-profit use cases without Reddit being compensated at all is fair.
3P apps using the API at no cost while simultaneously monetizing Reddit's content by showing their own ads does seem to be taking advantage.
That said, the way Reddit approached this was so scorched earth and bone headed.
For example. Reddit gets 10s of millions of dollars in free content moderation services from volunteers. The moderators of all their biggest subreddits rely on 3P moderation tools since Reddit's are so poor.
So with the new API policy, they're asking their unpaid moderators to PAY them for the privilege. It's such a slap in the face.
Finally to address the original question, Reddit should absolutely block API consumers who are just training their glorified chat bots to regurgitate plagerized content.
Not defending LMG's mistakes, but GN's opinion that you should not ask for comment doesn't hold water.
GN definitely has an agenda here. He made several comments that made it quite clear he's resentful of LTT's success.
While I don't think anything he reported is false, it's all wrapped in a narrative that relies on implications. He certainly makes a whole lot of hay about a few small mistakes and heavily implies LTT is in the pockets of their sponsors and a conspiracy theory that LTT is only successful because of some connections and preferred treatment by YouTube.
He's very much trying to establish a narrative that LMG is wildly corrupt and undeserving of their success. However, a lot of it comes across as sour grapes.