I don't think we are a minority at all. Look at any admin communication and all you see are complaints related to the changes. Also I think the protests actually are hurting moral at Reddit, and could potentially affect their IPO, but I'm mostly just enjoying a bit of schadenfreude from watching how poorly things can go for them. I know it won't affect their decisions in the end. https://lemmy.world/post/1796444
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lol yes there's a whole underground imgur social network full of users unaware that imgur was originally just an image hosting website for reddit. By default the images I uploaded were private but I decided to click the button to make them a public post just out of curiousity of what imgur's opinion on the matter might be. Turns out it's not interesting for them.
If you spend time watching /r/place you see that pictures mostly form in a natural, progressive way. This is the only place you see hundreds of pixels being changed uniformly all at once. Even bots would be making more gradual changes than this. It's clearly someone who has a brush tool for censoring.
The admins are blatantly censoring the drawing, putting checkerboard squares or circles of random color over that part. Here are some screenshots I took only seconds apart.
R/place will increase their traffic no matter what. At least the picture can convey the protest message so they know we aren't going to move past it that easily. Plus, keeping r/place open all day is increasing their server costs while providing no ad revenue. I don't go to reddit other than to spread to good word of Lemmy and to downvote admins so I think that has more benefit to us than to them.
I can never let go of my $7.99/mo grandfathered plan from Google music which is now YouTube premium. That and Spotify are the only subscriptions I can justify now.
With blackjack, and hookers!
I have little brown bats that live in an old barn attached to my house in Vermont, USA. I can confirm that they are really cute! There's a couple corners and nooks that they particularly like to nest in and so sometimes I will peek with a flashlight to see them all hanging out, cuddling together.
In the evening if I'm in the barn I can hear them all waking up and talking with these tiny little chirps and peeps. Then as night falls they will be swooping around the barn and flying out the windows or they'll crawl through some small cracks between the walls and roof to head out for a night of catching insects.
The only downside is that they poop on everything, but it's not that hard to clean up, I have a backpack shop vac that makes quick work of it. White nose syndrome has reduced their population by over 90% according to recent studies and so we are happy to give them someplace safe to live.
It's hard to argue with this when you hold the title of "Recipient of largest stock grant in human history."
Vrbo is another option but more geared towards vacation rentals.
Personally I've had good experiences overall with Airbnb but it takes research to find the good ones from the suspicious listings.
Ah, that's interesting and definitely sounds like an awful mess to deal with. Thanks for sharing, I'm not as familiar with film projection.
Reddit is pro-advertisers now, so not an issue!