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Not to be a jerk about it, but this is why you shouldn't have stored the books in a warehouse owned by a company that could lock the doors at any time. This is
by jrm4 3y ago
Not to be a jerk about it, but this is why you shouldn't have stored the books in a warehouse owned by a company that could lock the doors at any time. This is the opposite of why the 'net was invented.
- EA-3167 3y agoWhat was the other option, realistically? There are barely other options today, never mind 15 years ago.
- fsflover 3y agoI guess it's fine that 15 years ago the users chose Reddit due to the lack of good alternatives. But today people should be aware of the problem and go to decentralized platforms.
- EA-3167 3y agoOnce you've built a community and a "library" though, as we see, it's hard to up and move it. At least, until the guy who owns the library threatens to burn it all down.
- jrm4 3y agoThe whole damn point of the internet is that the "library" never ever ever actually MUST be "owned."
- krapp 3y agoSince when? Every website on every server going back to the very first one at CERN has been owned by someone.
- jrm4 3y agoSeems like it should be relatively clear that when I say "owned" here, I mean "strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner." Like, sure, university libraries are "owned" by the school, but one can generally reliably treat them as "public."
- krapp 3y agoEvery server is strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner. One cannot reliably treat any website as "public" because it really isn't. At the end of the day it's one or more boxes plugged into a wall you can't access one which one or more people other than yourself has admin and root privileges. It's someone else's property. Not yours, not "the public's."
- EA-3167 3y agoThat may be the intent of some of the early founders, and it may be your and my preference, but it definitely isn't what has ever existed.
- ZanyProgrammer 3y agoI guess I’m horribly out of date, but why not go to the actual Reddit website or just use the official Reddit app? I don’t know why you’d be forced into a third party tool for something that doesn’t require it. I’d never even heard of Apollo until a few days ago.
- ceejayoz 3y agoNo one's forced into the third-party tools. Reddit is trying to get rid of the third-party tools that people voluntarily prefer. They've also been neutering/breaking the mobile version of the site for years trying to force people to use the Reddit mobile app.
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