I’m impressed and pleased with the mods’ willingness to strike like this. Hope it may lead to change.
I think something like this would probably be done user side, maybe with some option to share it, much like the “multireddit” feature of reddit. Each individual community is still moderated and run by their mods and local instance, but the user can choose to aggregate multiple mags/communities together.
On one hand, he did say “ask me anything”. Reading the thread, I realize he didn’t actually say he’d answer anything.
Also, I love how the dishonest fuck that spez is wrote “Some third party apps decided the cost per user a month was too much” after app developers like Apollo’s and Sync’s both independently posted breakdowns of why the pricing structure was untenable. And it’s after he was caught lying about reddit’s conversations with the Apollo dev.
Glad this debacle has me invested in the fediverse future, at least.
Mastodon allows you to verify other ActivityPub accounts with a special link-back HTML element. I wish that there was either a universal method or that more applications had something like it. Something that indicates “this is me, and you can see my other activity over here and here and here”.
Maybe we need a dedicated ActivityPub service for just that lol. Maybe I should be the one to make it…
It’s made the platform significantly less friendly to advertisers, which is the other place that really hurts the company