To what end, I wonder?

I feel like it has to be financially motivated and the only thing I can think of is they want users paying for premium directly rather than having it gifted from a different accounting bucket. But that doesn’t seem like strong enough motivation on the surface.

I brush mine in the shower.

On mobile, the link kicked me to a different post. https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/

From the post: TL;DR With the API changes now in place, we no longer believe we can effectively perform our mission so we are sunsetting BotDefense. We recommend keeping BotDefense on as a moderator through October 3rd so any unbans can be processed.

And it’s not like we learn this stuff in school. It’s not written out anywhere. We have to rely on word of mouth, people with experience, or people like the commenter above you who are familiar with the ins and outs.

The bottom line is that it is complicated on purpose and designed to wear you out so you don’t get coverage for your most basic human needs - like peeing without your urethra being on fire.

I find myself making fun of the engineering, but I think it’s a defense mechanism. I’ve had a pretty strong interest in the Titanic since I was a kid, and if I were offered the opportunity to see it, I think I’d be more likely to go. And it’s scary to think I’d end up on a vessel that wasn’t designed to do the thing it advertised it can.

How much did the people who went actually know about the sub they were on? How common is it to sign a waiver about dying to go on a commercial sub?

It’s easy to laugh with hindsight, but it’s scary to think what could have happened if I were in the position to choose to go.

57M * 8:31 = 485.4M minutes 53M * 7:17 = 386.0M minutes 386.0 / 485.4 = 79.5%

If those numbers are right, reddit’s engagement time dropped 20% by the end of the blackout.

I doubt it’s that low now, but it is having an impact on their bottom line.

Beautiful chaos

Why not just program a bot to crawl their site looking for any string that says “lemmy” or “l e m m y” or what have you? I’d think it’s be easy for them to do, the bigger question is what kind of backlash they would get for it.

I’d be more worried about martyring lemmy on Reddit which would just force more traffic over here imo.

Or maybe they dont think Lemmy is actually a threat.