At least we’ll get a delightfully stunted Jony Ive product film out of it.

We’re deleting ‘doors’ as a feature. They just don’t make sense.

— Melontusk

In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another. Some have even called for the likes of Twitter to be temporarily suspended in times of great national crisis. That’d be reassuring – like the scene at the start of a zombie movie where the news bulletin is suddenly replaced by a whistling tone and a stark caption reading PLEASE STAND BY. The last thing we need in an emergency is the ability to share information.

– Charlie Brooker on the 2011 London riots

In-sta-gram

Although I’m only saying that to be contrarian, I do actually agree with you 😬

Squeeze to activate Google Assistant, from the Pixel 2 XL (and maybe others, I don’t remember)

inb4 Reddit rebrands as “R”

“People can’t expect to keep fucking me for free” – u/spez

Ohhhhh, OK I get it now.

I always used (and preferred) the official app and wondered why I was the only one haha.

But, I had Reddit Premium until recently, and now I guess AdGuard must be picking up the slack. 😅

Funnily enough @fer0n@lemm.ee does seem to work in the Liftoff app, but I guess there maybe isn’t a standard yet. 😃

It’s funny, because that was the obvious solution from the start.

“Third-party apps don’t sell our Awards or include any of the NFT/Vault stuff¹, and we’re not making money. So from June 30th we’ll only be allowing Reddit Premium subscribers to use third-party apps. The official Reddit app will continue to be free for everyone.”

I honestly think people would’ve understood.

But if they announced it now, it’d just make people even angrier. 🙃

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¹ As far as I know