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thisdarkhomeofghosts

@thisdarkhomeofghosts

24 she/her Just another fangirl on tumblr passing through!

It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it's impotent rage over a minor decision bc it's Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually

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Also, this is the death of forums part 2. Forums died in web 1 because it was more convenient to gather on larger social media platforms, like reddit. Reddit is used by a lot of people to find answers to obscure questions that are written by humans and not advertizers or bot. Now reddit is imploding, and a lot of the useful communities (like the 3d printing one) are moving to discord, which makes it impossible for non members to find the answers they need.

We need to bring forums back in a better way, where they are convenient to use and affordable to host, or we will lose the ability to find humans on the internet with answers

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Friendly PSA to reddit refugees: please be aware that you are on The Queer Website(™). And while I would say the whole blue hair and pronouns tumblr sjw perception many people had on reddit is somewhat exaggerated, it is absolutely true that the user base (at least the part that makes good posts) tends to skew towards non-men and non-cishet people. Which is all to say, it's best if you get into the habit of checking people's pronouns. They're usually found in people's header so it's not really much effort. (And look, I know it was site culture to refer to everyone as "sir" and with he/him on reddit. But not the site culture here, and you're going to make people uncomfortable if you go around he/him'ing people). Or you can always phrase your comments neutrally (coming up with ridiculous neutrals for gendered words is absolutely part of tumblr culture, so go off). But yeah, just don't be an asshole and you'll be fine