YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

    • GroteStreet 🦘@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      the frog was boilng for some time now

      Interestingly, the frogs are actually smarter than humans. Research has shown that they will start attempting to escape as soon as it gets too warm, no matter how slow you boil them.

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        Also if you drop a frog in boiling water it won’t jump out; it will die. That is not a survivable environment for a frog, not even long enough for it to jump.

        Also if you put a frog in cold water and you don’t immediately shut the lid, it will jump out. They don’t sit still for you.

        It’s amazing how thoroughly wrong that metaphor is. Like it’s just got it perfectly backwards.

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      Oh yes.

      True Foss, became radicalized crazies.

      Crypto was for criminals and terrorists.

      Truly open forums shut down because racism or pedophilia.

      If lemmy will be attacked on all these fronts, being a lemmy user will be equivalent of your boss asking you serious questions.

      Get those vpns in place. Full speed ahead.

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        Yeah because all “truly open forum” means is no moderation and what that invites is indeed literal pedophiles and bigots of all types