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The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

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[โ€“] 0x4E4F 2 points 1 year ago

There was a time where things came with damn manuals remember that?

Yes, I'm that old as well ๐Ÿ˜‚.

Seriously though, Linux documentation was good... past tense. Now, there are so many new libraries, binaries, etc., that I assume they just don't have time to write good documentation... or maybe they're lazy, IDK. Like let's take runit, the dev's docs are mainly rants against systemd. I mostly use the docs from Void or any other place to get it to do something I like/need to do.

Regarding MS and closed source things, forums and reddit is my main source of info... I mean searching online, in general. Most results are on forums and reddit, not my fault things are what they are.