I love how this statement is dripping with condescension for the people who built the service he's currently driving into the ground - all while thinking of himself as some kind of super genius.
"Sure, the service I'm offering is shitty - but don't you dare to give people a choice by offering a slightly less shitty, competing service!!"
People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.
Also forced them into arbitration, then refused to arbitrate the dispute.
Let's see Paul Allen's turntable!
<crickets>
Though if I had to guess, it's going to be stuff like "build a shit ton of nuclear power plants, use e fuels for cars, use green hydrogen, develop fusion power, and generally do all the things that allow us to believe that we have to change absolutely nothing in our lives."
Boost, Slide and Sync are all coming to Lemmy. Lots of other great apps, too, though - I've recently been using Thunder and Connect.
stimulating the replacement of single-use batteries with rechargeable ones and the reuse of batteries.
How does this mean the end of AA/AAA battery operated devices?
Yes, I'm in the EU, and I keep seeing (and buying) devices that are built for AA batteries or AAA batteries. I'm also using rechargable AA/AAA batteries for these devices.
I just don't understand how "the EU wants these devices to be operated by rechargable batteries instead of single-use batteries" would translate into "the EU wants to implicitly ban AA/AAA operated devices and push companies towards built-in batteries."
I'll start believing in Reddit's commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don't like their decisions.
Until then, it's just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.
there were so many "recommendations", "guidelines" coming from EU institutions
I have to say that I'm just not aware of any - but I also haven't researched this topic.
Could you link to some of those EU regulations and guidelines?
I would really like to look this up.
He praises the guy who stopped paying rent for Twitter offices as a "savings measure," says Twitter would pay rent "over his dead body," says this is part of his "zero expense" strategy, and is now obviously getting dragged into court and evicted from these spaces.
Billionaires, man. They just shouldn't exist.
And people are looking up to these guys and praising them for how clever and smart they are.
The EU forced companies to ditch AA/AAA batteries
So I can't buy any devices that use AA or AAA batteries in the EU today?
I don't believe that's true.
It's pretty crazy how u/spez seems to focus on some random third party app developers making money off of Reddit.
He tries to couch this in language about AI and the cost of maintaining an API and that the API was never meant to support 3PAs, but then loops back to what sounds like insane hatred and envy of third party developers.
And then, in the same interview, he points out how unpaid moderators who do all the work and make Reddit all the money have too much power.
It's lunacy.
Yeah, we don't know yet. On the one hand, it's still the early days of (some) people leaving Reddit - and who knows if they won't go back.
On the other hand, the API payment structure and the shutdown of 3PAs hasn't even happened yet. Even people who are completely oblivious to the situation but who are using a 3PA will have to decide if they'll be able to deal with the shitty official app, if they'll just stop browsing Reddit on mobile, or if they're willing to take a look at alternatives.
See, I really don't need all those people to leave Reddit and appear over here.
I'm fine if Reddit keeps being what Reddit has become over the years, and all the angry, toxic, trolling, shit posting people stay over there as well.
I'm fine with a much smaller, much friendlier community.
I think the best case scenario for a place like this one here is of people stop thinking about Reddit at all.
It's kind of breaking up after a long relationship: as long as you're still thinking about what your ex is doing right now, you're not over the relationship.
I think this place will find its groove once people will have stopped comparing features, communities, apps, etc. to how things worked or looked like on Reddit, and once people will have completely stopped caring about whatever may or may not be going on over at Reddit.
Yeah. Unless you already have a negotiation framework in place, it's probably a bad idea to announce how long you want to go on strike at the outset of a strike.
It's just signalling to the other side how long they have to wait you out.