A lot of people profile him as just a weird nerd and treat him like a digital punching bag, but I think it’s a mistake to underestimate a censorship extremist who built an empire on unpaid labor. Ironically, the loudest “fuck this guy” comments often help him, because they reinforce the idea that opposition is just angry noise, not serious critique. That plays better in mainstream media than you’d think.

Well I wouldn’t say it’s better but it’s definitely less enshittified. Give it time, the owners of Sniffies have given no indication they have the ability to earn anyone’s trust.

I’m still using RIF with my own access token, what do you mean they are banned?

That $126,500 number refers to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), but it’s not a hard threshold below which you’re totally off the hook. U.S. citizens abroad still have to file a tax return if their income exceeds the standard filing requirement (around $14k+ for single filers). And the FEIE only applies to earned income, not investment income or retirement income. It’s not automatic, you have to qualify under the bona fide residence or physical presence test, and file the right forms (like Form 2555) to claim it.

Even if you’re making well under $126k, you still have to file, and you might owe something depending on your situation.

If it makes you feel better, even if you migrate to another country and gain citizenship, you still have to pay income taxes to the US.

At least have some dignity and be grounded in the reality of where this company is aligned politically. Reddit doesn’t care about you or anything other than emulating everything Elon Musk does.

In other words an edition of Linux mint is finally getting a feature Ubuntu has for every variant, good for them I guess?

This system is so easily gamed by report spam. I’ve gotten multiple warnings on my account for “violence” removed after appealing, their system is automating this somehow and it’s not doing a good job. Really that’s just the story of Reddit for the past several years, they cast a wide net and piss off a lot of people now. They used to be a lot more hands-off but now they’re just controlling fuckwits.

I know they use client fingerprinting, is that what you mean?

“Sorry, you fell into our labyrinth of regex filters arbitrarily imposed by an unvetted volunteer on a billion dollar publicly traded platform. Your opinion doesn’t matter.”

When they IP banned me, I just turned off wifi on my phone and created a new account with a separate browser. But looking back reddit was never worth it. We’re all very addicted to this toxic form of crowd sourced moderated information. I’m not really convinced Lemmy is better on a design level, the upvote system is identical and doesn’t prevent echo chambers. I guess there’s autonomy with instances, so that’s nice…

Once you understand how reddit admins are basically mods themselves it kind of makes sense. The company has hired lots of power mods over the years that don’t “respect the human”. And the forces that be want to continue profiting from volunteer mods’ free labor. It says a lot more about the individual reddit admins that they make the lazy decisions they do.

That’s part of the enshittification rug pull, they take over as the hub of forums for most of the internet and then gatekeep as a power play.

Could be related to them going public - people are scrutinizing their operations a bit more. Same reason the view count for subreddits suddenly went down by a factor of 10 post-IPO. They always have been, and always will be corrupt.

But really, they’ve banned me in very insulting ways. I only keep an account around in case I really need to engage with a niche hobby subreddit, and it’s barely ever used. This company should understand what the consequences of burning bridges with a user base is.

I have one, but I typically only get IP banned when I message moderators in any way. Not worth entertaining these dictator simulator enthusiasts.

I don’t see in this post where we learn how you interacted with the thread…? Reddit doesn’t ban for multiple accounts, they actually tolerate it but so little you have to make sure each account never even views anything the other account engaged with in any way. Reddit runs the site with zero-trust and is mostly getting the user base they deserve.

Well, thank GNOME for it being somewhat usable, but I have higher standards.

How are they going to drop updates for something they have to spend zero energy on to stay compatible? Windows 11 is a low effort UI re-hash with some minor kernel iterations. I love and miss the Linux desktop and want it to succeed, but it’s clear there’s a bias here meant to push a narrative.

Former burned out core LM developer here, the grass is not always greener (but maybe is if you don’t know how the sausage is cooked).

I’ll use Windows 10 and pay for the updates for years while using old versions of office. Fuck Windows 11.