Are they on instances that are not federated with Kbin?

I think even 100% reversal and going back to a free API indefinitely would still not be enough to get many of us back, including myself. The entire company has lost any remaining trust, and they were pretty much in negative balance to begin with.

The API stuff may have been the motivator, but this kind of movement doesn’t happen so quickly without lots of underlying, pre-existing problems.

The protest had an end date because it shows that we’re reasonable and willing to come back to the table. Now that Reddit has doubled-down, the next stage is to extend the timeline and magnitude of the protest.

The big apps and some of the bigger subs were always going to be going away indefinitely, while others will likely stay dark or even join the protest after staying out initially. Some will go back to normal, too, of course, just like some subs didn’t participate at all in the first place.

Nobody mentioned children and sexuality in the same sentence until you did.

Once again it’s the conservative/religious zealots that are obsessed with children’s sexuality. I have never once wondered about what is inside anyone else’s pants, let alone wondering that about literal kids. Bonkers.

It’s almost like there was no actual problem with bathrooms until bigots made it an issue. Almost like they are… hypocrites?!

Because they have been told it matters. That’s it.

Trump recently joked on stage at a rally that nobody cared about trans issues 5 years ago. The audience laughed. I don’t think either side of that incident had enough self-awareness to realize what that statement implies.

I like how this quietly but accurately calculates the result of 2+2, but somehow cannot handle 1+1.

The whole idea of a protest being pointless is pointless!

Protests often do not accomplish their stated goal in the moment. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t an effect, it may just take awhile (or more protests) to be noticed. Even if it doesn’t ever have a measurable effect, the idea that people should just shut up and not express themselves is completely contrary to all of the ideals of democracy.

An email to Twitter’s press account requesting comment returned an autoreply with a poop emoji.

While hilarious, this simple statement in a legal filing does so much to underscore how insecure, weak and petty Musk (and probably all billionaires) really are.

Probably doesn’t help their legal case at all, either!