Looking back, I am positive I have said “lol” or “lmao” out loud more times than I have actually laughed in the past week.

Amazing write-up! I immediately went to Afterplay and added it to my home screen! Now I just need to find a solid place to grab ROMs and I’ll be set! Thanks!

Imagine sitting down and feeling the squish of wet fabric beneath you.

The last panel should be the fox digging a shallow grave for Apollo

It has actually blown my mind how many people got behind this movement. Overall the change was not something that would have ruined Reddit for most, but it was enough of a middle finger of the community that we all got riled up for it. I am proud to be a part of this movement!

I’m glad to see Christian has kept his head in all of this craziness. If you pay attention, he has not once pointed the finger back at Reddit and said outright “they are trying to kill 3rd party apps”. He has been careful to keep the line open in case Reddit comes calling.

I hope he does something else past his Pixel Pals app because I am excited to follow him into his next project. We can all only hope it’s an app for the fediverse!

Another one to the Google Graveyard. It’s crazy how even paid, profitable services can be tossed away by them. This has to be the widest reaching service they have deprecated. At least they are moving people over to SquareSpace, but still, this has to be a widely unpopular move here.

I always find these arguments are almost in bad faith. Sure there are always alternatives, but that’s like saying the alternative to driving to work is walking. It works, but only so far as it is practical. I am so glad I found Lemmy and fortunately the community has been forced here by Reddit, but how many posts were on this platform 2 days ago, how many will be here in a week? I am hopeful this will last, but platforms are only as powerful as their users, and the general public tends to congregate in the largest, easiest to use location.

Unfortunately, Reddit can just keep doing that as often as they want. Fortunately though, there are few people who will actually be able to do a good job moderating especially for FREE. They will burn through the good candidates and have to rely on unqualified people to do a mediocre job. This will ruin the content quality and eventually kill the sub. So long term we may still win, but short term we will likely see little change. The problem is always the level of involvement of the general public.

I just called my local McDonalds to see if they would add AI to my burger. They were pretty rude considering I just turned their whole business model on it’s head. I guess being a tortured genius really does have its drawbacks.