My highschool days. Wouldn't change a thing either, except I wouldn't start smoking cigarettes.

Kinda... depends on how things got him there. The thing Elon can't lose without really going off the rails is his ability to play the markets. Once the SEC kicks him out you'll see him legitimately calling for open revolt.

What we outside fail to realize is these people live in a wholly different reality.

I haven't watched television with any ads in years. So when I go to a hotel and I'm lounging watching cable and seeing commercials it is jarring just what a different world it is from what I remember before. And for people who never left it, it isn't jarring at all. It's their normal.

Now imagine you only watched Fox or OANN. It's your very reality that's twisted all askew. It's hard to hold that against many of the MAGA crowd and speaks to just how influential misinformation campaigns can be.

mugshot will not be made public

But it will be made. Wonder who gets that honor.

I think at this stage removing it would be equivalent to tattooing "assassinate me" on his forehead.

Look I hate the guy too and he doesn't deserve his freedom, but there's a large number of people in this world who would love to merc a former POTUS regardless of who that POTUS is or what they did. And frankly Trump is more dangerous as a martyr than he is alive and alone on house arrest for the rest of his life.

Most human like thing about it yet, in fact.

He's already overridden people blocking him. You still see his posts.

He's just trying to make sure it stays useful as a weapon for fascists like himself is all.

"I thought you was corn". I say it whenever I startle someone.

AFAIK it was similar on reddit. You could still see content removed from the sub in a user's history. I think the mechanism they're trying to argue they're controlling is promotion of that content. Especially here where no one "owns" it, it just is. Being seen to promote illegal content is what the heat comes from.

The api changes really were about protecting their gold mine of data from ai data models scraping for data. Reddit wants to use that data to create its own models and then replace moderators with those models. The ultimate goal here is to turn the existing dataset into an automoderator on steroids that they could sell anywhere. Trouble is someone else is going to beat them to it.

There was a reason these changes lined up so nicely with Google doing the same thing. Everyone's realizing they've been spouting their gold from firehoses for any machine to pick up, and they're being reactionary and turning them off asap instead of just like, accepting it as a facet of having a public social network.

Not those of us who exclusively used the 3rd party apps. Former RiF user here, reddit for 12 years. Not doing it on their app, you couldn't pay me to tolerate that experience. Using Jerboa right now and with a couple tiny improvements, I got no problem switching.

Check out Jerboa.

Signed, former RiF user