How could you even trust this guys word, he's broken his promises and straight up lied so often it's actually astonishing
It's pretty breathtaking that they're taking a preemptive approach on such a large server, feels like they could have federated for a while and assesses but nope.
Good old minimum character validation
It looks like they have their own "vibe" and rigorously enforce it in their own community. That's fine, it's their service after all. Feels a bit strange to turn away potential new users when people are looking for viable alternatives
The constant attack on healthcare across western countries is starting to become pretty horrifying. Not liking where this is all going
Good to get awareness out there, the more people who know about these federated alternatives the better, even if it means having to use Reddit (where there's still a huge population of potential converts)
And companies wonder why no one wants to use their shit over steam, case in point
Pushshift was an API service that connected with Reddit to pull information about posts, users and other data. For example you used to be able to use unddit to input a URL and get a full listing of a comment thread, showing all comments that have been purged.
This was a super handy service that Reddit all of a sudden cut off with only 1-2 months of notice. Moderators used to use this service extensively to help them moderate and actual data scientist used to integrate with it to pull out a heap of data.
The best part about pushshift was that you could take a permalink (e.g. a 5000+ point upvoted deleted comment) and see if it actually violated the rules of the subreddit OR if the admins were just being shitcunts.
Arguably one of the most important sites too. People had accounts for week over a decade, they're rightly pissed when a place you used to love turns to shit because some dropkick CEO wants to pump his upcoming IPO
Not a great situation overall. Sounds like they're scrambling to give some semblance of support for mods, seems a little late now guys
The worse was the disingenuous removal of the Pushshift API. Framing it like devs have been using that API for things they didn't envision (like unddit using it to retrieve deleted comments so you could see if an admin deleted a genuine comment or if it was just hate speech)
Terrible situation overall.
The critiques that Steve laid out in this video were perfectly fine, highlighting the shortcomings of LMG when it comes to actually reviewing content (which is what they're pivoting to, away from 100% entertainment content). A typical Linus arrogant take where he'll learn nothing.