And president terms are 4 years. Doesn't stop impeachment though.

I'm confused. How is this any different getting simply hosting a picture yourself and tracking all the IP addresses via http fetch logs? Why is Lemmy itself being singled out here? Why do you need some CGI script?

I see one potential good thing though: maybe people would be less interested in killing the only planet that supports human life if they knew they were going to be on it forever.

because I refuse to consume any of it

I guarantee you already have and didn't notice.

There's a philosophical argument to be made for sure, and I'd probably even agree with you. But the reality is that the technology is here, and it'll be used in pursuit of the almighty buck.

They did surgery on a grape

My favorite part is when elected officials talk about how the election was rigged or otherwise fraudulent. Like, you were literally voted in by that same system. Are you saying your election is just fine but somebody else's in the same state wasn't?

Freaking shitheads, the lot of 'em.

Horrible execution seems to be the common definition in everything they do.

Not that I disagree with your premise, but the people that want to do it will just create alts.

That's just a cat and mouse game. IMHO, the admins and developers have better things to do with their life.

Probably not, but they were still the users that cared enough about the platform to actually spend money on an app just to use it. I have to imagine that the amount of quality posts and comments will decline.

It's difficult to measure just how impactful that'll be over the next few months or years.

There's been a lot of talk about this, but I've yet to see it. It's either being A/B tested and not fully rolled out, or whatever way they're detecting adblock isn't catching me.

There's plenty of pictures online though of people getting the message.

This is pleasing to my ocular orbs.

so I'm not really sure what's going on.

Most likely, Reddit fucked up their change. It would not surprise me in the least.