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Note, that the page reloaded with a bunch of errors in the console when I tried to post this. I hope that I didn’t double post, but it doesn’t seem like I did at least.
Also, I just realised that I’m dumb and there is a header option in the editor, so disregard that.
That’s perhaps the most frustrating part. There are numerous ways they could have handled this that at worst would have resulted in a few people whining about it and then moving on.
Even if he had just shut the fuck up for a few days, most subs would probably be up by now. But no, his fragile ego couldn’t handle it, so he decided to go on a personal crusade against the very people who are working for free to keep the site running.
Without the mods and power users, Reddit has barely any value whatsoever.
Maybe I’m just being dumb, but wouldn’t site: kbin.social also catch everything that kbin.social is federated with? You wouldn’t of course literally be searching the entire fediverse, but it would functionally be more or less the same thing, as I understand it.
What’s funnier is that Kbin squashes them into a square and then seem to stretch that square into some strange almost 3:2 landscape format.
I tried to add some custom CSS with Tampermonkey to fix the thumbnails, and was extremely confused until I realised what was happening.
I’m absolutely baffled over how much of a clusterfuck Reddit and particularly Huffman personally has turned this into.
Why in the ever loving PR suicide by not shutting the fuck up, did Reddit think that starting a war against their own moderators would be a good idea? I’m wondering if I have ever seen a company handle a situation this badly before. This is utterly insane.
Huffman has somehow managed to take a mild inconvenience that would blow over in a few days and turned that into a major crisis and then turned that crisis into an existential threat to the future of the company.
It actually came to my attention recently that Lemmy/Kbin does in fact support markdown tables similar to Reddit. The issue is that there is no preview function, at least on Kbin.social which I’m using, so it’s very difficult to see that it’s formatted correctly.
In theory, it should be possible to use the same or at least similar markdown that I’m generating for Reddit, but I’m quite heavily relying on abusing Reddit specific quirks in order to get the formatting to look right.
I’ll see what I can do next week.
I think lobbying as a term has gotten very infected by American politics, where it appears to be borderline bribery.
Interest groups arguing their cause is exactly how I expect it to work.
I find it ironic how many people seem to be complaining about lobbying while simultaneously complaining about the EU not listening to the industry enough.
JetBrains have some quite extensive VC tooling built into their IDEs which I use almost exclusively. I used to do everything in the terminal, but I find it so much quicker and simpler to do it directly in the IDE.
There are many other more impressive and even more famous music videos, but this one is THE video I think of when anyone mentions music videos.