kobra

load balancing is up to the instance admins. if they’re getting too many users, it’s okay to restrict signups.

the anger tells us it worked o7

Yeah this kinda just tells me they said it (or heard it) but didn’t believe it.

Like most things that frustrate me, it seems logic has flown out the window in this situation. At least from Reddit’s perspective. I cannot fathom how they could mess this up so badly. Could you imagine if they would have given 12 months notice and piped API access behind Reddit Premium of some sort? They would have raked in the money.

Would not surprise me to see 💰UFC💰 sell wolf tickets to this and turn it into some WWE-esque BS.

I would hesitate with WD. I’ve always been a fan of their drives but their software straight up wiped people’s backup disks a few years ago, iirc. That would give me pause before ever using their software again.

Assuming those posts actually wind up here, yes.

Well said, this was all something I didn’t really understand before reddit did what it did. It’s all crystal clear now though!

Yes this is a good callout. Kbin/Lemmy need to get better about cross searching various instances. Build in the https://lemmyverse.net/ functionality without having to browse to another site.

He ends the video with this, which I thought summarized his thoughts well:

" ‘No hit to revenue.’ (quoting Hoffman) Your 2 day blackout did nothing. But that doesn’t mean that it has to be in vain. Because you can convert that blackout into an indefinite one, at the blink of an eye. That’s what I’m doing. And that’s what I hope all of you do as well. I want you to teach Steve Hoffman a lesson. I want you to teach him a lesson that his website is not valuable because of the domain name, the servers, the API, or the brand. It’s valuable because of you."

100% agreed. as someone that has been meaning to jump into the fediverse since the Twitter debacle, I was paralyzed by having to choose an initial Mastadon server. If you want lemmy/kbin to grow, just link them directly to the best matched instance you can find for them.