ads cost money to increase users to eventually profit from them later.

how would a decentralized lemmy profit from the increased users.

Any money spent on ads would be better off hiring more engineering resources and improving lemmy for the next time Reddit does something dumb prompting an exodus.

rip sex cards

yeah but then you have to play a console without mods or cheap games

try buying a used GPU and game on 1080p monitor and you'll be able to have great graphics without a lot of money

this is still a terrible idea. the system should never know the plaintext password.

logs capture a lot even automated emails. i don't see a single reason to send the user their plaintext password and many reasons why they shouldn't

unless this is an extremely long con. I haven't heard of any reports of her cracks being malware. in the case of RE village her crack improved performance vs capcom's DRM.

rendering engines. I use multiple browsers depending on context

like 99 percent of users

how do you not know how old you are?

Twitter ran by musk is unlikely to be our savior

Reddit doesn't have to close in order for this blackout to be successful.

Myspace is still alive but not relevant.

I think the best-case scenerio is that the blackout, combined with 3rd party apps shutting down will cause a partial migration to fediverse-based solutions.

As long as the communities get a kickstart then it will change the companies trajectory.

I'm not sure. I've worked at companies using amplitude and hotjar that can record all click event and sessions on web

they fumbled so hard. they could have had millions of new subscribers if they locked the api key under reddit premium and allowed 3rd party app to enter user api keys

50 a year isn't terrible depending on your use case, but they burned so much good will