I joined Reddit seventeen years ago because of Aaron Swartz’s involvement. Lemmy feels more like someplace Swartz would have liked than Reddit ever did.

There seem to be rumors that reddit wants to do another r/place on 23rd of June to celebrate its 18th birthday and to distract from the API situation.

I can’t imagine that going the way they expect.

Something like that for the whole fediverse might be a good visual demonstration of its interconnectivity.

Regarding the “real” issue being the use of the API by AI developers: It’s been evident for at least the last few years that this was going on, and I had seen it as a positive thing—that we were helping to create a training corpus that would be freely accessible to everyone, not just a handful of corporations with their own proprietary data.

out of the thousands of moderation bots that exist, less than 20 exceed the updated rate limits

That doesn’t sound too bad, until you remember that those twenty are by definition the ones most used by moderators.

I don’t necessarily think that should be an automatic process—communities with the same name on different servers don’t necessarily mean the same thing (e.g., r/trees).

If they were willing to allow the back-end access to their servers that would require, they wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with.

I doubt there’s any deliberate vote fuzzing here—reddit did that to prevent karma-farming bots from figuring out if they were being detected and blocked, but with no permanent karma, that shouldn’t be an issue here.

Don’t do that—we might remind them of something they missed.

I assume that because lemmy.ml is another instance, I can’t log in with my usual lemmy.world credentials, but since it is federated I should be able to post, correct?

I think the difference is whether you’re viewing lemmy.ml directly (as in, the URL in your browser starts with https://lemmy.ml/), or whether you’re viewing it through lemmy.world (or whichever site you have an account on).