Their gadgets built their fame because they just worked and were built like a tank. My grandparents had their stuff (from Goldstar era) and they still keep chugging.

None of this "as a service" bs will please the lifetime customers.

Most of us will be overjoyed to see 1M deposited in our bank accounts. Not for Elon.

Even Wikia was a bloated mess back in the days. Fandom made it worse.

I had a fight over this. For me, it was natural to have a distinction between chat, an instant, forgetful and private messaging platform, and websites, a more permanent and open repository.

Some disagreed hard and insisted discord was working just fine for them. Am I becoming the dinosaur?

Anything in particular you did so it does not store any data? I'm thinking I should try out the same on a cheap VPS.

Email analogy is good to explain the systems architecture, but it still doesn't communicate ethics of proper use (decentralization). Just look how many people have gmail or outlook as their mail account.

As all adblocking solutions, Yay from the user, Nay from the corporate.

It's not like everyone visiting /r/piracy was part of the community itself (which moved to greener pastures). Many visited the sub as part of casual browsing.

In another way: "Thank you and fuck you /u/spez, I hope your IPO crashes and burns."

I really missed the early internet charoom vibes. Every day you discovered something new, every person with a random handle felt like a human connection.

I don't think Reddit will go through a dramatic death as Digg did. Digg v4, as many old timers remember, happened in a different era with a different mix of users.

Reddit will slowly become what their management always wanted it to become: a bastard child of facebook. Some may stay because of habit, some simply won't care, it's all the casual crowd Spez is betting on.

That also means it will die a slow death where big flashy subs will be inundated with recycled memes and botspam despite the effort of some with good intentions that still hang into that platform.

If any those become disillusioned and look for another place, Lemmy/Kbin can become that second home.

It does require an email.

I used a throwaway one, is that allowed? It still appears on my settings, and I wonder if they'll make me verify again when I won't be able to access the same throwaway account...