This is honestly hilarious 🤣

Thanks for posting this over here. I otherwise wouldn’t have known this was going on. As I used a mostly lurker account for game day threads I wasn’t going to bother with a data request. It’s a whole different story if we can inundate them though. Request submitted. o7

LOL!

God I wish I could upvote this, but after about 5 minutes of trying to get it to stick, I will leave this comment instead. Well played ;)

Frankly one of my favorite parts about the blackout - and opinions like this - is that Lemmy is going to end up being populated by people who have the capacity to think about others and form intelligent opinions. All of the people with this attitude will stay on reddit, which is what will ultimately kill it. I hope he stays.

Godspeed Christian. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the impact you will have on the fediverse. There’s not many whom I would trust more with it.

Honestly, while I could care less about karma, this is likely just due to the infancy of the software. You had 2 people working on this for ~3 years, and in three days their user base increased 10x. It’s not like they were given time to prepare (thanks spez). These things will be worked out, we just have to be patient. It is worth the wait for federation.

Me personally? I am done. Regardless. I have seen intimately how enshitification ruins so many good pieces of software, I am just done. This was the last straw for me. They could revert back to free API. I will be contributing to the fediverse from here on out.

I just hope others without a tech background can understand how important this movement is to the future of a free internet.

One of the best things about open source software - there is no need to hide useful information from your user base. A concept largely forgotten in today corporate hemisphere.

As you mentioned, I think the mods have done a fantastic job given the learning curve and lack of mod tools. This is just a good tool for accountability and transparency. Keep it up!