The whole head-neck assembly is a disaster. Should have kept all the vital stuff in the torso and gone with articulated eyestalks.
I'm kind of loving it. I grew up on local BBS and before Reddit I was on lots of content-specific forums and boards but Reddit became my primary social media and it sort of absorbed the activity from a lot of those boards. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old internet forum thing, but improved- a bit spread out and janky at times but still condensed enough so I don't have a dozen forum accounts.
It really is. I'm glad I came over to Lemmy a few days before. Makes it easier to find the humor in this jackass imploding something so many people enjoy and contribute to.
Is this the right link? https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ceo_tomorrow_to_discuss_the_api/
I've also checked spez's user page and there's nothing there yet so are they late or am I in the wrong place?
Here it is - https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/
"Plead to subreddits to not blackout" probably won't be direct, but he'll make asinine points that basically say "You shouldn't, and don't, but I'm not going to ask nicely for peasants not to revolt because you're all just peasants".
I'm waiting on a data request for the rest of my history, though I did that 6mo ago for other reasons and still have it so if the delay is too long I'll just lose those months.
After that I'll probably keep my account for a while to spam about Lemmy until I get banned.
I think that's essentially what will happen, but they'll just remove comments they don't like. If no one showed up at all they'd look even dumber. But it's going to be a trainwreck for the ages so I'm looking forward to the show.
I'm hoping it'll be more like craft beer and become it's own market that overlaps with more mainstream options but still has a solid base of users\customers that keep it separate.
I know this won't happen but the best possible outcome would be if nobody showed up.
I'm hoping there are enough active 'tent pole' type instances that can keep the interest in Lemmy going through the inevitable scaling catastrophe the blackout will bring.
Kit is missing a lighter.
I'm just glad to find something that's growing with public enthusiasm instead of dying from corporate greed.