but if cheesecake factory hired him and supported him to make this discovery, you would look at the menu differently.

Some people can be very well educated but choose not to follow reason. For example polititions appealing to a voting base. Point is these things certainly say “what a twat” but doesn’t necessarily reflect poor education.

What’s there to take? Like, these guys are working for free running on their enthusiasm and passion. You make them question whether the community is really worth their time, even if they relent for now, how does that do reddit any good? It isn’t like reddit has any actual power over the mods on their ultimate decision of quiting.

I mean, if they say “you have to pay 3 bucks a month to use 3rd party client” I would be annoyed but I would understand, and I would still be on reddit.

Holy shit I am laughing so hard.

An instance that gained its popularity starting off not federate with others? Not possible right? How the hell do you attract another instance’s users if you don’t federate?

An instance that start off federating but ended up breaking off? How is it supposed to retain its users from other instances?