I was seeing pretty normal-looking accounts disappear in greater and greater numbers in the couple of weeks before they zapped my account. Couldn’t figure out why, just a lot of comments or threads only hours old, and the users were already gone. Couldn’t figure it out at the time.

That’s the transparency you can only have when revenue isn’t in the front seat.

Theoretically, but it would only work on one instance (server), and that would put an instance in such bad odor that other instances might not want to peer with them anymore.

Ironically, it would be likely to get that instance isolated from much of the network, if not all of it. That behavior is detestable to many who came here.

They never needed to redirect to do that in the first place. It’s probably just done for convenience. Websites quietly tracking outgoing links has been technically possible since the '90s.

There is no central control, which means there’s no CEO to influence into doing ghastly shit to the users. It’s basically one step up from the non-federated Internet forums of old.

That doesn’t seem like a very strong password 🤔

Reddit has turned into a real fuck of a fuck over the last few weeks. It was a bad omen when they started charging for API access, but that was just a preview. They’re in full-on enshittification mode now.

You get shadowbanned for unspecified reasons, without apparently breaking any rules. They do cute shit with vague error messages rather than tell you what’s up. Zero actual communication.

They’re also busting people for upvoting super mario kart jpegs for some reason, but when they do that they actually tell you.

Next time I need a new 3D printer I’m either buying a Prusa or building from a kit. Bambu has nothing I can’t get somewhere else, and I’ll pay extra to have a printer that doesn’t come pre-infected with corporate malware.