You wouldn’t download a car more RAM would you?
One minute our content (through the API) is “very valuable” and “needs to be monetized”. The next we’re just “noise”.
Mostly I think it started as a show of how much reddit relies on the free labor while giving reddit an out, but as time goes on I’m inclined to believe it’s also because mods know that if they “abandon” the subreddit, the admins will just open the subreddit up to new moderators a la r/redditrequest
There are already subs that have had users request being put on as mod despite barely becoming inactive.
Think of lemmy as like an email (except everyone can see it). You have an email address “steakfries” and the domain you registered your email on “@lemmy.one” so if I want to email you I have to enter in @[email protected]
I can “email” you from any domain, be it Gmail, yahoo, my own server, etc and you can likewise respond.
Going to download my data tomorrow and delete my own 11 years worth.
Sad day, but also very cathartic.
SMH damn kids don’t even know about the before times when leaves didn’t despawn on their own and minecraft cost less than $10