My notes:

• As expected, a blackout with a set end date is seen as toothless by Reddit leadership
• I hate when companies refer to their employees with some “cute” nickname, like “Snoos”
• He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?

I also suggest submitting a request to exercise your privacy rights (if applicable to your location): https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001370251

According to Reddit’s Privacy Policy (as of June 13, 2023), they need to verify that you have access to your Reddit account:

Before we process a request from you about your personal information, we need to verify the request via your access to your Reddit account or to a verified email address associated with your Reddit account.

Also note from the Privacy Policy (as of June 13, 2023):

After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

I don’t think the number of downvotes show up next to the comment score arrows until it receives at least one downvote.

In the meantime, you can hover your cursor over the score to confirm how many upvotes/downvotes a post or comment has received.

Well, with that recommendation, I’ll definitely keep an eye on mlem.

In the meantime, I’m pleasantly surprised at how usable Lemmy is on mobile web, much more so than Reddit.

Thanks for the links. Hope their development makes it easier for Lemmy to grow.

That said, I personally prefer to use homescreen shortcuts to Safari on iOS to avoid having to download apps that can clog up my phone, use up its battery, etc.

So the fact that I was happy to have Apollo installed on my phone really says a lot about how much I loved using it.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

The list of instances with user count and other stats: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Strange, no idea what’s going on. Could be spam or technical issue with the users meaning to comment on another post.

@ruud@lemmy.world could maybe investigate?

Looks like there’s an issue with posts >2k characters that the admin is aware of: https://lemmy.world/comment/76346

To me, this is like Richard Stallman and certain reprehensible actions and opinions](https://rms-open-letter.github.io/).

Just like with Stallman and his contributions to software, I can justify using Lemmy to myself due to it being open source and the devs not directly financially profiting from the spread of Lemmy (although it certainly raises their public profile).

It’s definitely unfortunate that they’re Tankies.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues is likely the best place to suggest this.

Anyway, I agree, it would be good to have the option to disable live updates.

Lemmy will likely have its own “the narwhal bacons at midnight” phase.

It’ll interesting to see what it is…and then almost immediately tiresome.

And another generation gap between people who use a double space after a period and those who just use a single space.

You can always tell when someone was trained to type on a typewriter when that happens.