Currently going through a extremely difficult time at the moment with my amazing cat that is dying of CKD/CHF.

First video this site showed me is "A scene from the movie A Dog's Purpose (2017). A family's dog reaches the end of his life."

Now I cant stop crying.

Asbestos degrades over time and releases fibers with almost no effort/interaction with the material.

Engineered stone only releases dangerous particles when cut. It does not degrade.

They both require special care when being disposed of, but they are not "on par"

One of the "Suggested safer alternatives" is Granite which can have silica content up to 45% (Engineered stone being 95%+)

So instead of 2 years to develop silicosis it will instead take 4 years of working with the "safe alternatives"?

All the people who were cutting engineered stone with unsafe methods, are now just going to be cutting granite and other natural stone with the same safety practices that led to this being banned.

I really don't get it.

This whole "But we tried to enforce the safety standards on the industry" is a load of nonsense - How many businesses got fined or shut down for unsafe practices that caused silicosis for their staff? None.

The cycle will continue, and we'll be back here in 10 years when the "safe alternatives" are getting banned.

Former Reddit mods are going to love this feature.

Now when they are power-tripping or they don't agree with another instances users views on a topic, instead of just banning the users, they can ban entire instances/communities from participating in one fell swoop.

The irony.

> https://beehaw.org/post/567170

> these two instances’ open registration policy, which is extremely problematic for us given how federation works and how trivial it makes trolling, harassment, and other undesirable behavior;

> unfortunate reality we’ve also found is we just don’t have the tools or the time here to parse out all the good from all the bad. all we have is a nuke and some pretty rudimentary mod powers that don’t scale well. we have a list of improvements we’d like to see both on the moderation side of Lemmy and federation if at all possible–but we’re unanimous in the belief that we can’t wait on what we want to be developed here.

Those votes were brigaded by people pushing the blackout, they are not representative of the overall community.

The average user of Reddit completely ignored/scrolled past those polls because "whats this doing in the NBA sub"

I find it hard to have any faith in those polls considering one of the subs that I mod that has ~3500 members got just over 4800 votes on the poll.

The other sub I mod with 1300 members got 800 votes (which averages 10 posts per week from a core regular group of users)

I do not believe for a second that a sub with less than 100 'active' monthly members had more than 60% of the total lifetime population of that sub come online all of a sudden and vote in the communities best interest.

Then on the other side of it, you've got subs with millions of members that had 20k responses. The average user did not (and does not) care. Now that those subs have been re-polled without being flooded by protesters, it's a overwhelming "No, leave us out of this"

https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/147152b/upd...

> There's no possibility to continue the free version of Relay; a monthly subscription price of $3 (or less) might be achievable.

And of that $3 the Developer says in that thread:

> Yes there should be a good amount in there for myself.

If 3rd party apps are so beloved, then $3/month to support a developer doing good work should not be a issue.

It's the same group of people who strong-armed a lot of smaller subreddits into participating in this 'protest'.

The end result of this protest looks like it's going to be that Reddit is going to remove a lot of the mods that the community has despised for years.

It would seem this mod pity party is backfiring in the most spectacular way possible.

Mods are the stewards of the community. Not the community itself.

They help foster a good community, but once again - they are not the community and can usually easily be replaced by someone else in the community who is passionate about the topic.

> Each sub is going to have a different set of mods, some worse than others.

The problem is that the main group of people driving this 'protest' are the Reddit power mods.

Smaller communities with great mods have been strong-armed into this protest and have no idea why they are actually participating, because as per usual, Reddit power mods need to control the narrative and want people to believe that "Reddit is nothing without them".

Censorship, power-tripping, running subs with a iron fist, etc

Nobody knows or cares who they are.

As much as they'd like to think they are, the mods are not the community. The community is the people. The people are not there for the mods.

I had the same experience 2 weeks ago when being put under with propofol.

They asked me to hold a mask against my face and to start counting and then that's it, I woke up in recovery.

It was like I blinked and the whole thing was over.

Did not feel anything 'coming on' or like I was loosing consciousness, I was fully conscious and aware of all my surroundings, and then, bang, was in recovery.

Strange experience.

Because 99 days out of 100 the majority of people including Redditors hate Reddit mods for being power tripping egomaniacs who actively censor any discussion that they don't agree with. It's a literal meme at this point how bad Reddit mods are - but today they are the 'heroes' because it suits the narrative.

It's amazing how many people have bought into the mods agenda regarding this whole 'strike'

Well to be fair, that appears to be exactly what was happening until the dev of Apollo spat the dummy and turned it into a public mega drama before actually consulting with the users of his App on how much they'd be willing to pay.

About 3%

> What leverage do users have here

None

There's 3.5 million subs.

Less than 8000 are participating in the 'blackout'

That's 87% of ~8000, not the whole of Reddit.

Probably had to shut the database instance down once they exceeded the AWS free tier limits and realised that internet infrastructure actually costs real money and doesn't run on magical free fairy dust like the protesters seem to think.

> Of those who are active, most just comment

You don't need the 'vast majority' or 'most'. You just need a few.

> It's a vanishingly small group who actually want to moderate

Not really, more people thank you seem to think are desperate for any sort of internet power.

Wow, that'll really show them who's boss! /s

No need to worry, any mention of HN is being mostly censored in all the "Reddit blackout" propoganda Discords now there's actual real discussion happening here about how the strike is stupid and just a vocal minority of mods taking the users for a ride and they can't downvoted those comments into non existence.

Agreed.

> Though it does sound like Steam would still remove your access if you actually did inherent the account

I found this to be a good article that expands on the whole "What happens to your Steam account when you die" question:

https://www.eurogamer.net/what-happens-to-your-steam-account...

> "Your Account, including any information pertaining to it (e.g.: contact information, billing information, Account history and Subscriptions, etc.), is strictly personal. You may therefore not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you sell, charge others for the right to use, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use) or as otherwise specifically permitted by Valve."

> "In the simplest terms, this means that without express permission from Valve, you can't just give your Steam account to another person. Even if you were to write it into your will that you wanted this to happen, without that permission, it wouldn't hold up upon your death. Earlier this week, I spoke to a lawyer who specialises in the video game industry to confirm that this is, in fact, the case."

Seems like the answer is "It's gone"