If you read through some of my other stuff, I mostly document controversy in the open source community. OSS developers being taken advantage of and loosing is just the norm, the only thing unique here is that the donation platform itself was doing that instead of the users
fuck this country man
I agree these claims are a little crazy, but not actually that crazy. Did a little digging and
that the most redditors were in the town where Eglin Air Force base is located
- Reddit claims this themself (now deleted): https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html
- Airforce study on social media manipulation: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644
Ghislaine Maxwell
their CEO made their career in the CIA before coming over to Reddit
No fucking clue on this one
My main has 10s of thousands of karma from a different time in my life and it’s not banned
Have not conversed with the rest of the team, but, personally, I'm not opposed persay to AI, but would certainly put much higher value on hand made banners – I feel like AI lacks creativity, style? If that makes sense, but also If someone can make a decent banner with it I'm not opposed. Size wise, I'd probably shoot for something like 1000x500, though of I can downscale stuff as needed. 2:1-3:2 ~ish~, other communities have banners to see (two ones I've quickly found is [email protected] and [email protected])
and many (like me) don’t donate directly
But you pay for API keys?
I can't believe I had to add a rule just for this
Theoretically yes. I remember when mastodon.social went down and I didn't notice a thing... Well aside from the constant "guys guys guys mastodon.social is down so exciting" :)
That's why I provided 18 citations for that claim in the first paragraph