He’s a damaged person, no doubt about it. Beyond perverse does not do him justice

Its interesting given Thomas’ long-known and NSFW preference for worktime porn viewing and discussion and the Heritage Foundation mothership’s feelings about porn. They probably prefer live-in live-action underage actors/servants to do the needful

All fair points, i just felt it was shitty for him to act like nobody or fans shouldn’t recreate what he got us all hooked on and that he had some sort of expectation of commerical purity that we were violating by not letting Apollo die the way he dictated

Not that I expected him to be able to sell it or anything but he could have taken a good, long, relaxing vacation and taken the strongest stand against the company that fucked him over and needed a good whooping by following the other top Reddit 3rd party apps that didn’t want to deal with Reddit’s bullshit new API terms and redone Apollo for Lemmy like Voyager did and I am eternally grateful for having done. Reminds me I need to donate this month to the one who actually made it possible and is an absolute champ

Very Interesting twist. Its almost like they play both sides so they always come out on top

It highkey kinda sucks tho, being implicitly all like “I I can’thave Apollo do Reddit than nobody can have it!”. Its really childish and selfish in the way it fucks over almthe people who grew dependant on it for their Reddit-type social fix app

As a practical matter, I wouldn’t invest any time or money into the guy’s projects anymore not because he doesn’t do amazing UI/UX/App work, but because he is not someone is seems to plan long-term or is advised by anyone who could have told him this would be a problem legally or administratively etc.

There are indie app developers who create incredible and profitable apps who aren’t getting constantly yanked off the app store or denied service or whatever. To be fair, I think Reddit had a hard-on for fucking him over but I disagree with how he dealt with that both in the moment and more removed from that moment when he shut the whole thing down and threw various tantrums about Reddit and then more low-key about Voyager

YSK: He’s not crazy about Voyager. Gives me mixed feelings about him, he could have done well giving it his blessing or doing Lemmy himself. I wanna like him but he keeps making terrible choices

Sad!

Why doesn’t everyone like move to Sejong, the alternative is no alternative at all it would seem, fuck that shit

I mean, as a serious vignette/discussion piece here:

South Korea: you’re dumped from the North to South Korea, you’re un(der)-educated and no money, skills, culture etc. What do/happens?

North Korea: same deal but in reverse from South Korea. What happens/do?

Asian countries honestly seem pretty bad in terms of if you lose your job or never get settled or have any criminal setbacks. There’s just no do-overs it seems

Isnt sk like more hyper-capitalistic hell than most places with little in the way of social welfare systems? Scary place to try to start your life over, like jumping from the firing squad to the fire/meatgrinding machine

This is conjecture but don’t Teslas record everything around them. Couldn’t that be a form of distributed surveillance/botnet or something?

Absolutelty disgusting

no tools

Its the same thing with narc parents. They got nothing but the roof over your head so all day they make threats about it. They abuse the tiniest bit of power incessantly to create a dopamine skinner box of a life for themselves

It was an amazing feeling when I was able to budget properly finally and start being able to proactively buy what I wanted or needed coming from a place of security and being able to shop around and use Costco etc.

Its straight up evil what is being done in terms of inflation. Treadmill of death

Can’t the Feds play Supremacy clause and ensure any drs are immune from this bullshit?

I’ll do you one better: they should reproduce his likeness like a holograph standin thing and have the debate whether he likes it or not. Grab him by the—well, you know what I mean

How hard would it be for the judge to “have him fetched”?

Would be epic and the tantrum would be hilarious

I think several of Harris’ donors are people who have spoken intently about the FTC head Lina something [Khan] being replaced so hopefully Harris resists those calls and keeps an effective player on the roster

Why do people use Viber over like Signal and Threema or worst-case scenario Whatsapp?

Was kinda wondering when they were gonna cut the cord, Telegram is likely thoroughly compromised and compromising