What they really mean is that they didn’t inherit their immense wealth, which means there was a time in their lives when they weren’t obscenely wealthy.

So when you say something they don’t like they literally ban your eyeballs from the site?

Oh, my sweet summer child. They were never your comments, you just wrote them. They belong to King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys now.

Reddit still publishes RSS feeds, so you can use an RSS reader to see the latest stuff. You can’t interact with it, but who wants to trade shit posts with bots anyway?

This is how I keep up with my Sportsball teams since that community hasn’t really taken off here yet.

What’s RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working

My IP never changes until I have a power outage. Even then the lease usually gets renewed with the same IP address

“Ban Evasion” is such a bullshit concept anyway. Do something we don’t like, and try and come back early? You can no longer come here, for life! And since I bet they IP ban, it bans your entire household! I wonder if there are some public places that are Reddit black holes, silently banning any Redditor who goes there because one person once called King Steven a greedy pigboy.

I left Reddit at the time of the great APIcalypse, and there were some businesses whose customer service was so abysmal that the only practical avenue for customer service was on Reddit. Getting a permanent ban for bullshit reasons can have an actual effect if you need support from one of these companies.

It surprises me that they haven’t banned the wrong lawyer at the wrong time to prompt a class action lawsuit over how arbitrary it all is.

I hope so too lol. I do keep a spare quart of oil in the car just in case, I party like it’s 1979

There are less than 4 billion valid public IPv4 addresses. At 4 bytes per address, a table of banned IP addresses is no more than 16 GB, which is child’s play to store these days.

You can compress it further and make a lookup table with 1 bit per public IP address (because you plan on banning a lot of IPs) and the size is reduced by 32x, to 512 MB. Now they can store their ban list in RAM indefinitely

I have an old Subaru that burns oil, and coincidentally the light comes on right around when I should be change the oil anyway

Just give it up, she ain’t coming back

Ads? In my Lemmy?

It’s more likely than you think!

No, even Nazis are people. They may be horrible people whose hateful ideology needs to be forcefully purged from society, but they are still people.

Do you know how otherwise same people turn out just as bad as Nazis? It starts by dehumanizing their opponents.

(That’s not necessarily a statement in favor of the Reddit action, that was likely done by a bot anyway so no humans were involved.)

The only way to not get banned is to never, ever post.

If there are certain niche subreddits which you can’t live without, download an RSS reader. They still work with Reddit, for now. They won’t let you post or otherwise interact, but you shouldn’t do that anyway.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s…

Sorry, didn’t realize you were a dev. Good luck!

(Although if I were you, I would migrate away from any hosting of anything related to the project that is owned by a US entity.)

Yes, all that is correct, but that doesn’t mean they won’t try anyway. You don’t necessarily need to be correct on the law in America to win, you just need to have the resources to pay more lawyers than the other side.

It’s hosted on Github, all it takes is a few billable hours for Reddit to send Github a cease and decist letter and … poof … the repo goes away unless Github decides to challenge (and they won’t challenge, nor will they bother asking the maintainer before killing it).

Did someone make a phone app out of the code? All it takes is a similar letter to Google and Apple to resolve that. Yes, the app developer can challenge it with them, but don’t expect to get very far.

Just a few billable hours can severely impact the reach of this project, even if the project is fully open source and thus allowed to be forked. You don’t need to be correct to send a C&D letter, in most cases the other party caves right away before challenging it.

So if you like the project, make sure to maintain your own private copy of the Github repo. It may not be there forever.