Not really, two more countries just joined NATO, it would be perfectly normal that along with that comes the opening of additional military bases like the ones in Germany, UK, etc.

These are likely to be the troops that will be stationed there.

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? :)

Aw stop, you’re making me all nostalgic. :D

Place was wild before they cleaned it up for business interests, for sure.

Skyrim moment, right there.

The whole internet was basically hobby projects that worked fine before big tech ate everything.

It can totally work if the community’s right.

48k ZX Spectrum.

Treasure Island Dizzy is better than all modern gaming and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees.

Ironic.

Came here to say exactly this ^.

OpenAI is called that for a reason. They absolutely were a non-profit research org initially, so would have been eligible for research grants, etc. They would probably have gotten a pass on using the torrents too, for the same reason.

They went to a private for-profit model later after they built their AI’s and wanted to start selling them as a service. How the hell all of that plays out as the company they are now is anyone’s guess.

where Spez edited comments to make the sub seem to be inciting violence, so he had an excuse to ban it

Not what happened. Spez, fuckwit though he is, actually managed to do a halfway decent trolling there.

A bunch of t_d people were slagging him off and insulting him in their comments. Spez got drunk as shit one night and edited their comments, swapping his name with Trump’s so that it made them look like a bunch of anti-trumpers. Much gnashing of teeth ensued.

Absolutely shouldn’t have done it, especially as CEO of Reddit FFS, but definitely funny as shit.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely a mark against him, but he didn’t get them banned. They thouroughly got themselves banned on their own.

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.

This is what sorting by active fixes.

It’s like the old “sort by recent replies” on forums.

Well, fashion’s cycled around again and today they’d be wearing the modern style anyway, so don’t see why not :p

I’m literally seeing people unironically wearing flares these days where I am. They’d fit right in, depending on the crowd.

Ok, I just reported you here on Kbin.social, not sure if it went through though as clicking the button didn’t close the report box or anything, but that could just be a missing UI feature.

Gonna have a wild guess here and assume that mutant is on that list.

Probably not tbh, but it’s another thing to actually see it there in a permissions list.

I’m pretty sure that none of this is really “news” to anyone. I posted it because it’s a slightly more “in your face” view of what we already know.