So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:50 AM UTC

brokenmachine wrote: post #240

skydhash wrote: post #71

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I spent my whole childhood without computers and a good chunk of my teenage years without stable internet connection. Now, I have both, but due to the state of the internet, I'm returning to my old routine: A load of books to learn from and hopefully finding some time to apply the knowledge.

Don't give up yet. Lemmy is good, but not enough people on there for network effect to kick in yet. I think once the enshittification gets too bad for even the average person, people will look for alternatives, and old style forums will return. Although with all the ID verification, those forums might end up on Tor or something.

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:52 AM UTC

dormento wrote: post #174

account42 wrote: post #92

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The response to that should be to restrict the events calendar and similar dynamic functionality, not to restrict the 99% of users who are accessing what should be 100% staticly cached HTML.

Of course, the _actual_ response to that should be to make the AI companies somehow liable for the massive disruption they caused (and still cause). But alas, we can't have nice things.

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:56 AM UTC

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #219

kmeisthax wrote: post #108

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Powertripping mods have always been a problem with Reddit ever since they had user-created subreddits. The real problem is that Reddit has been very two-faced with what their expectations on moderators are. If we take "the purpose of a system is what it does[0]" then Reddit moderators exist primarily as unpaid volunteer employees, paid in control over the narrative of certain communities. The flipside of powertrippin…

>Actually, that big stink people made over killing third-party Reddit client access was all powermods, because doing your job as a moderator is nigh-impossible with the standard Reddit tools. That's why we had so many subs get blacked out in protest, an I sort of got the impression it was because of that back when it happened. But when I say it out loud everyone protested reddit because the moderators didn't have wha…

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:59 AM UTC

leptons wrote: post #216

plqbfbv wrote: post #138

I closed all my Reddit accounts after they instantly shadow-banned my 8+y main account after I shared a single gdrive link to reply to a user with actual data. I've been appreciated as contributor in various places for being helpful, thorough and precise, but Reddit doesn't care to have good content. It's simply not a good discussion platform (and the UI sucks).

Mods are the death of reddit like I've been saying for at least 10 years. Shadow ban after shadow ban, the dopamine rush a bad mod gets from shadow banning someone must be amazing. It's way too easy for them.

Post by inigyou » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:02 AM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #387

Remember Aaron Schwartz !