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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish we as a species would just drop this trend of having to eventually ruin a good thing just about every goddam time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Closed source/centralized software always ends like this. It's always "not my problem" with people when it comes to propriatory software dying until, of course, it is :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately our entire economic system relies on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just has to do with some central person/group seeing a big pay day. Most people have a price tag at which they would sell just about anything.

Well, people willing to pay for it must see some value in it, and obviously, they don't want to lose that value. So they will do anything for that, including fucking over people