I thought it was about waterboarding

SAME! Also recommend Alton Brown

One thing I wish these news sites would cover is that it’s not only the API changes that people are upset about.

This was just the straw that broke the camels back. It’s been a long time coming.

My personal gripes were:

1. Corporate astroturfing (this is the #1 reason I left, the entire front-page just felt like r/hailcorporate but nobody is aware)
2. Reddit official app served ads in the damn comment section
3. Bots of many varieties. Karma farming bots. Politically motivated bots (especially on r/Canada)
4. Mod abuse (r/antiwork for instance)
5. Censorship (r/fencesitter for instance)
6. The stupid NFTs being pushed

Also, the API situation will make it harder to moderate subs without the tools that were previously available

Holy shit

Is anyone here old enough to remember SomethingAwful and communities like that from the early 2000s? Lowtax drama aside, during its hayday the community was the source of so many OG memes. Here’s hoping that Lemmy will have that nostalgic feeling.