Indeed. I was expecting a two-week “calm before the storm” at this point, as the protest blackout ended but the API was not yet removed. But the protest continued and Reddit keeps stirring the pot. Interesting times.

I know that in the end Reddit will be able to brute-force themselves a “win”, but if the Fediverse gets a nice solid critical mass of users as a result then I think Reddit’s destined for a long decline.

It’s not surprising, but IMO the shutdown is still worthwhile. It’s shaking people loose to start looking for alternatives, and giving those alternatives opportunity to shake themselves down too. We’re not quite ready for a Digg-style implosion yet. It may come more gradually this time.

I’m in Canada and a few weeks back I was leafleting neighborhoods in smoke like this, literally spent all day walking outside in it. I wore a big cartridge-filter mask and that made it fine, but I was baffled by how many people were baffled by the mask. They thought I was making some kind of statement about Covid. I had to gesture vaguely at the sullen orange sky and remind them that there was smoke in the air. I’m sure PPE like that mask would have been mandatory if I’d been working inside a building with air like that.

but says his issue is with how Lemmygrad is not communist.

Nope. I don’t care whether they’re communist or not, they’re apologists for authoritarians. The communism thing is just an excuse they dress that up in.

Seems ironic in a thread where someone’s looking for minimally-blocked instances.

But on the plus side, perhaps it illustrates the value of blocking.

I’m not basing my statement off of any experience with Marxism-leninism. I’m basing it off of my experience with lemmygrad posters here on Lemmy. For example, this thread about the Tienanmen Square anniversary. I don’t particularly care about the specific political ideologies on display.

I’m not speaking about you specifically, I have no idea who you are. I’m talking about lemmygrad in general. Just like the person you were responding to was talking about. He asked “what did lemmygrad.ml do?” And I’m clarifying that.

It’s not that lemmygrad.ml is simply “communist.”

Be mindlessly propagandistic “communist.” The countries they fawn over aren’t even particularly communist, they’re just authoritarian. Russia in particular is run by capitalist oligarchs.

It’s just tiresome and pointless engaging with them.

On the one hand, this is going to cause terrible long-term damage and cost a fortune to repair.

On the other hand, the Russians wouldn’t have done this if they thought they were going to be able to hold the occupied territories long-term. So it’s kind of a good sign, I guess.

It’s doubly pathetic that Russian officials are charging for this, and that the amount they’re charging translates into such a small dollar equivalent.