I have been thinking about a new MBA for a while now, my laptop is secondary (I still have an Intel iMac as my main desktop) but my current one is a…2015 12 inch Macbook, so I could use the upgrade. It would actually be my first Apple Silicon machine.

However, my country’s currency is really struggling right now, so I have to pay functionally $2000 USD for one of the baseline 15 inch models, which is a lot.

Honest question, why keep quiet? I assume they are aware of the shit that went down in Reddit, if you provide Lemmy as an alternative some may actually try it and end up liking it more. The more people swap over the more it becomes an attractive alternative for others.

You don’t have to be obnoxious about it, but just a suggestion could interest them.

They’re probably right, depressingly.

I can’t make anyone else leave, but I did what I could by leaving personally. I am generally enjoying the experience over here more anyway, so I am not missing a whole lot. Maybe a couple niche subs, but I was considering working on launching equivalent communities over here.

Their tools are just not up to keep track of all these things.

If only someone developed some third-party tools that could better help them with their job…

Of all the assorted protests I saw, I liked what interestingasfuck did the most. Just said “f it, here is what subs will look like with the bare minimum modding” and walked away. Mess up their front page, their advertising, and actually show what an unmodded major reddit sub would look like.

If every sub had done that instead of some milquetoast 48 hour blackout, I think it would have been at least moderately more impactful.

They can’t delete it as far as I am aware. They could delete all posts and perma-private it I think, but that would be extremely tedious and the admins could revert everything a lot easier.

When you’re working within their frameworks, effective protests are limited. It’s why I just left.