There's been a pretty wide range of responses, and while some boil down to that, I think the general trend is attachment and people fearing the result of some rw 'scab' taking over. Elkaki above's comparison to an abusive relationship feels really on the mark.

Even without all that though, sometimes it's genuinely hard for people to break habits; and many of these habits are years old. Doesn't really come down to region or logic.

Not necessarily. It still made him look very weak, making concessions instead of crushing Prigozhin as threatened.

kbin isn't the same software as lemmy, but they can talk to each other (the joy of the fediverse). Glad you've found your voice as a result! I also found the culture of most subreddits hard to deal with, too many egos clashing.

Christian Selig's receipts (Apollo's dev) really underlined just how meaningless their words are, but the way they use copypasted bs at every turn makes it impossible to ignore.

Hell, this all started with them saying they respected moderators' right to protest, including going private. Utter nonsense.

Assuming this isn't just a temporary caching issue like someone else has suggested, denying people the right to delete their own data risks bring a GDPR nightmare down no the company.

The AskHistorians team is the closest thing to irreplaceable, I'd be very surprised if even he's stupid enough to pick that particular hill to die on.

The only good that can truly come of this at this stage is sabotaging Huffman's hopes of cashing out for a second time, after he sold his stake for a ""mere"" 10 million back in the day.