Sunday afternoon, after careful evaluation of a significant security concern, we made the intentional decision to sever our ties to the internet.

I feel like most big announcements like this end up being Ransomware. Cutting off from the wider internet feels like a weird move to defend/mitigate that? Unless it’s to reduce exfiltration?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763661/reddit-rif-is-fun-developer-ceo-steve-huffman

RIF developer pushing back on Huffman’s claims that RIF didn’t want to work with Reddit by releasing emails.

Not only did they make their own app, but there was an 11 year gap between launching Reddit (2005, granted smartphones weren’t a thing then) and when they launched their Official app (2016, well into the smartphone era exploding). And Reddit bought the iOS 3rd party Reddit app Alien Blue in 2014. It’s crazy of him trying to push the story that Reddit was never intended to be used by 3rd party apps.

Tree Style Tabs for Firefox gets installed on every Desktop install I use.

There are over 6000 subreddits that are still not public. Looks like Reddit is done waiting. https://famichiki.jp/@Tsutsuku/110537730270070245

There are over 6000 subreddits that still aren’t public. Like looks like Reddit is over waiting for them to come back online. https://famichiki.jp/@Tsutsuku/110537730270070245

That epiphany is great. I’ve done some of my best work while standing in the shower.

Nuclear Throne. It’s a fun Roguelike dungeon crawler. A run from beginning to “end” (last level before looping) can take 15min and I’ve spent 100s of hours playing over the years.There’ are so many characters you can choose to play, each with its own unique special ability.