If you truly want to see “everything”, it’s best to join a small instance that is federated with everybody. I joined an instance called Rammy. It’s nothing special in and of itself, just one guy nice enough to host the server. But I can interact with Beehaw, Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Lemmy NSFW, all of it. So if that’s what you want, join a small instance.

Just to give perspective on how rapacious the textbook industry has become:

When I was in nursing school (graduated in May), even though I “purchased” the textbooks, it turned out what I purchased was only a license to access the textbook through their proprietary e-reader app for the semester. As soon as the semester was over, my access to the textbook disappeared.

This is the model that the textbook companies want. No more reselling used books to even recover a small portion of funds.

This is why piracy of textbooks is thriving.

Did they block Lemmygrad? I thought they just blocked Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world. you may be right though.

I wouldn’t try to make too much sense out of Beehaw’s decisions. I don’t quite understand what they’re going for. Regardless of whether or not they blocked Lemmygrad, I agree with you that there’s a contradiction inherent in the whole idea of having a community about socialism (a topic about overthrowing the current political/economic order) but saying to “be nice” lol

I am ready and armed with Thomas the Tank Engine memes.

Beehaw added !socialism@beehaw.org if you want to talk about leftist topics, but the rules there are that you have to be nice to everybody. It is basically the opposite of the tenor of r/socialism, so take that under advisement.

I say this as a passive observer who has no skin in the game one way or another, I’m not a socialist.

I don’t think people actually would, if push came to shove. They’re just expressing nostalgia for a simpler time, which is pretty easy to understand, given all the dystopian effects of social media and smartphones.

I think smartphones have done a lot of harm, but they’ve still done far more good, which is why we use them. Especially in poorer countries where smartphones are often people’s only access to the internet.

That said, there’s nothing stopping any of these people in the article from being the change they want to see in the world. Not to send anybody to Reddit, but r/dumbphones is a fast growing subreddit for people that want to try that. A lot of the users are Gen Z who never got to try them and want to give it a whirl.

I like lemmy.world because it seems to be neutral and doesn’t have heavy handed moderators. Communities are allowed to bloom and grow. It’s scalable.

I respect what Beehaw wants to do, but their goals are not realistic if they want to be a platform of any significant size.

So far I also like the communities I’ve seen on Lemmy.ml, but there have been a lot of technical/server issues.

I know about Bombardier but didn’t know there were others!

He comes across like an entitled child who has made up his mind and is too stubborn to admit when he’s wrong. Add onto that the fact that he bullies people with his lies and manipulation. Very much not an adult, let alone a CEO.

They’re so hypocritical too. Steve Huffman will rant for hours about third party apps taking advantage of Reddit’s free API to make money from it, and then turn around and make money off of free moderators. He reeks of greed.

God I hope they get sued into oblivion, and I hope that Steve is personally financially set back because of this whole series of events.

Yeah, I left Beehaw. I understand what they’re trying to do, but I think they shouldn’t have tried to grow so much if they were intent on being such a walled garden. There was so much conversation on Reddit for people to come to Beehaw, and now the rug gets pulled out.

What about for people like me who are on a whole other instance (I’m on Rammy). We are federated with everybody, both Beehaw and Lemmy.World. if somebody from Lemmy.World posts on Beehaw, does that mean I still can’t see it?

An “adult company” wouldn’t have their CEO go on an extemporaneous personal attack against a third party developer in the middle of a Q&A.

I really owe Steve one for opening my eyes to Lemmy. I’ll certainly never go back to Reddit, other than perhaps the occasional Google search for an IT question somebody solved 10 years ago.

But as far as actively contributing? Having a Reddit account? Nope, I’m done. I was very active on Reddit, and I haven’t posted since the announcement.

But despite me and many others leaving, I really feel for Christian and the other developers. They really got fucked. The 30 day turnaround was an absurd notice to give someone, and Steve didn’t have any defense to give for that, according to this article. He seems like a really ruthless, uncaring person.

He definitely has a choice. As a founder of Reddit, if he really believed that this was the wrong move, he could refuse to do something he disagreed with and make the board essentially have to fire him.

I walked away from a well paying job myself several years ago because I disagreed morally with choices being made by the company. It is absolutely something that people can do, especially someone of his means.

Unfortunately we live in a society where it’s easy to separate responsibility for actions taken at work with actions taken personally; indeed, that is the whole premise of a limited liability company. But I still hold Steve personally responsible for his choices, and I think he is selling out the values of Reddit, and his own values if he ever had any, for money.

Drug dealer character Stringer Bell in ‘The Wire’ had a good scene where he talked about the business strategy of repackaging and renaming something when you are unable to raise the quality of a product. Just rename it and customers think it’s better.

It’s a shame, because there are a ton of awesome niche communities on lemmy.world and shitjustworks. I was on Beehaw but I ended up moving to the smaller instance I’m on now so that I can actually access everything.