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I understand your concerns, but in this case venture backed means we have the resources to put full-time resources on it and push it forward quickly (as opposed

by sawka 3y ago

I understand your concerns, but in this case venture backed means we have the resources to put full-time resources on it and push it forward quickly (as opposed to just being an interesting side project). We need an open source modern terminal alternative, otherwise this market will be taken over by closed source alternatives.

wredue 3y ago
There’s lots of not venture backed open source terminals right now and even more being worked on. Nobody who’s been paying any attention to the strong correlation of venture to enshittification is going to give this a second look.
- wredue 3y ago
  Difficult to find due to the keywords involved. In point form: -rcan used to generally lean slightly left, and banned terrible sources, bigotry as well as outright fake news -metacanada didn’t like that white nationalism wasn’t allowed, and that far right “sources” weren’t allowed -metacanadians get a couple people on the mod team who pretended for years to being more centrist/slightly left -metacanadians began whining for MONTHS that the right wing had no representation on the mod team (except the couple that were there pretending to be reasonable) -/r/Canada sleuths demonstrate that multiple mods on the team were in fact alts of metacanadians already, and that further implementing metacanadians mods would lead to a takeover -/r/Canada mods disagreed, and installed a couple more /r/metacanada mods -/r/metacanada now has the majority moderator total and begins a full takeover by actively harming the moderation and “showing the moderation is ineffective” which can lead to Reddit admins “stealing” a sub from you (and in this case did) -/r/Canada is now essentially just an alt-right propaganda outlet that actively allows bigotry, and, in true conservative fashion, instantly bans criticism of the sub and mods.

by sawka 3y ago

wredue 3y ago

There’s lots of not venture backed open source terminals right now and even more being worked on. Nobody who’s been paying any attention to the strong correlation of venture to enshittification is going to give this a second look.

wredue 3y ago
Difficult to find due to the keywords involved. In point form: -rcan used to generally lean slightly left, and banned terrible sources, bigotry as well as outright fake news -metacanada didn’t like that white nationalism wasn’t allowed, and that far right “sources” weren’t allowed -metacanadians get a couple people on the mod team who pretended for years to being more centrist/slightly left -metacanadians began whining for MONTHS that the right wing had no representation on the mod team (except the couple that were there pretending to be reasonable) -/r/Canada sleuths demonstrate that multiple mods on the team were in fact alts of metacanadians already, and that further implementing metacanadians mods would lead to a takeover -/r/Canada mods disagreed, and installed a couple more /r/metacanada mods -/r/metacanada now has the majority moderator total and begins a full takeover by actively harming the moderation and “showing the moderation is ineffective” which can lead to Reddit admins “stealing” a sub from you (and in this case did) -/r/Canada is now essentially just an alt-right propaganda outlet that actively allows bigotry, and, in true conservative fashion, instantly bans criticism of the sub and mods.