Yep it’s shifty. And it doesnt need to be: I watched LTT’s response video and they explained the sequence of events in more details. The first response tried to spin it which was an own goal.

while we haven’t sent payment yet, we have already agreed to compensate Billet Labs for the cost of their prototype)

^ I took that at face value. If true that they didn’t do this until after GN video then this was very unethical. This is pissing in our pockets.

And can choose amongst thousands of such instances

Kinda glossing over that point.

Maybe an optimistic take: people moving = people realising they can move. Eventually some of them may also realise they can move to a platform that’s not controlled by a shitty corpo.

Yep, vote with your feet is all that we’ve got, and shouldn’t be underestimated.

It’s almost bizarre to me how fully featured and polished wefwef.app is. Really amazing.

It seems he was the dev who initiated the project, but hasn’t been the main contributor for a while. He’s handed it over to the other devs contributing, who weren’t aware of what was going on or that he was planning to leave and it sounds like they’ll be back on track in the next few days.

I feel weird supporting Zuck, but the thought of someone knocking that shit-eating grin off Elon’s face…

Tough place for 1Password, who clearly want to be able to collect data to maintain a competitive edge, but have an audience of security conscious users who may not be comfortable with this. But as always transparency is appreciated.

Yep. The headline could have been “Reddit to start charging for Premium if users want to use third party apps” and it would’ve been and gone in a day or two.

Instead, Huffman’s ego stepped in and he gave media cycle red meat with how he’s handled this. The story now is how aggressive, dishonest, and incompetent he looks. I think there’s a lot yet left to be written about a tech company that relies entirely on the health of its community treating members of that community so poorly and so openly attributing that to $$$.

It will be interesting to see where things stand in a few days and whether it’s causing ongoing pain to Reddit. I doubt they will comment until and if there’s a risk of ongoing, widespread blackouts.