Well, if you ever tried uncarbonated piss, I’m sure you’d come to appreciate beer more.

While most nuclear countries have their nuclear war doctrine stating that nuclear weapons are only to be used if under complete and existential threat, the French have a concept of a “nuclear warning shot”.

You better believe it

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Software developer and gamer. Started on the Commodore 64 with both and never stopped.

Having been through several tech enshittification cycles, I’ve long been wondering when Reddit would be too “meh” for me. That happened earlier this week, when I decided that Lemmy was more the tech and community I was looking for. Planned to leave gracefully during June.

Then I saw the AMA and… That set off my “Fuck This Shit with a Vengeance” so currently coding up a script to make my Reddit account die very ungracefully.

5 menu choices later

“Sorry! Our call center is not open today!”

You’re just a thermometer! Why do you need to verify my email?!

When contacting government or a service provider I want to call and talk to a human, dammit.

Been on Reddit for 15 years. Will probably hang on to a few communities that only exist there for a while longer.

I was sad and sentimental about it when it started dying years ago. The desperate “must grow until implode” path that all corporate owned platforms follow, is inevitable. At some point it’ll suck too much for you to tolerate.

Make a first-party mobile app for a site that would be fine on web. Sell premium subscriptions. Sell microtransactions. Insert ads. Insert more ads. Insert ads inbetween content. Make the ads look like content. Put usability features behind Premium subscription and forbid integrations that do similar things. Try to be tiktok? Try to be a social network. Short videos! Try to be Youtube? Try to be Twitch!