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You’re a moron. Piracy is not stealing because nothing is ever taken from the copyright holder, unless you’re going to argue that a theoretical purchase is being stolen. By which logic, deciding not to buy something is stealing.

Somehow I doubt it’s even that. The guy’s just a braindead, incompetent moron. I don’t think the fucker’s even smart enough to realize this is literally the worst possible decision he could’ve made.

It actually already exists. The ReVanced project, which has continued to update YouTube Vanced after it shut down, has also expanded to other apps. I’ve only used their YouTube and YouTube Music apps, but I can’t imagine the experience on their apps would be any worse than reddit’s current app, given that it’s essentially the same plus their patches to it.

That’s basically where I’m at. Lemmy is very interesting, and I enjoy that it’s not being held hostage by the whims of corporate dipshits who only care about profit, but I’ll go wherever the interesting content is. I just hope that place isn’t back to reddit or twitter.

Maybe, but I think that the branding of the “fediverse” + difficulty of use will make it unlikely to surpass reddit or any other alternatives. It will almost certainly still be around for years to come, but I doubt it’ll be much more than niche, despite me hoping for the contrary.

Tankies suck, but they’re so far from nazis morally it’s not even really fair to tankies to compare them.

At least tankies generally speaking aren’t okay with genocide of innocents.

At least then we can just defederate with their instance, yeah?

Let’s hope Reddit does something even more blatantly dumb than they’ve already done and start banning porn from their platform. Once that happens, that’s when I think we’ll really see alternatives take off.