PERIWINKLE!

I once fought valiantly to erase your kind from the pages of history. Periwinkles may be ugly, stupid, and incompetent, but I now understand that was never your fault. You were born that way. You deserve patience and understanding, and perhaps a mental facility somewhere far away you can be safely locked away in. You don’t, however, deserve to be destroyed. I’m sorry.

• Lt. General of the Orangered 69th Aerial Division

I am sure most everybody who is reading this already knows what this post is about. If not, please read this. TL;DR: Reddit is going to start charging exorbitant costs for use of its API, which was previously free, starting July 1st. This will price out every third party phone app used to access reddit, such as Apollo, RIF, and the one I use when I'm out and about, Boost. The intent of this is to funnel everyone to their official app, which sucks, serves a bunch of ads, and spies on you incessantly. Fuck that.

What I am personally worried about is the loss of Reddit Enhancement Suite for Old Reddit. I have also heard that the mod tools in New Reddit are terrible and inadequate. In short, everyone is going to have a worse experience on reddit because of greed. I know damn well that if I lose old reddit, I'm done with this platform. I know other subreddits are planning a blackout. I don't really see the point of joining, since we basically have nothing to black out.

I know all of us here have had some really fun times on reddit. I sure did. But it may be time to move on. I ended up checking out the lemmy project, which is a reddit clone that is part of the Fediverse(with stuff like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, etc.). The instance I joined, beehaw.org, is super nice. I definitely recommend it. Reddit is not going to get any better from here on out. They are going to do their very best to monetize everything they can out of us. Reddit is not the future.

I miss the tea garden and cat sanctuary.

How are you all doing?

Yay! it's so very periwinkle!

Color of the Year!

Wear masks and better dead than orangered.

just-just-just, what is THIS?

How are you all doing? Sad to see the sub being pretty much dead, but doesn't stop us from checking up on eachother once in while.

Sans

I know it's been a while... generations have lived and died since the great war was thrust upon our realm by those Orangered savages. The war was brutal. Friends, families, allies, pinned against each other within minutes after April 1st, 2013. A net of confusion was cast over all of us at the time, all we knew was we were filled with a deep rage. And the hats.... by god the fuckin hats. Piles of hats smothering poor OPs that were just trying to understand. If you didn't adapt, if you didn't EMBRACE the one true color... you would have drowned in a sea of the worst color combination known to man. Orange, and red... Yet despite our best efforts, despite the most brutal counter attacks, the Orangered armies conquered us all.

Many of those who survived have forgotten, others were born into a world unknowing the sacrifice us brave Periwinkles gave to keep them safe. The war has long been over, but the ruins of a land once blue can be found if you know where to look. Orangered propaganda continues to plaque the minds of those curious enough to seek answers. A spin of the truth about what happened, that they won fair and square, that we just laid down our arms and embraced their reign...

It's time that changes. The truth needs to come out, and the propagandist savages must pay for the Periwinkle blood spilled. It's time to raise awareness, to form an army, and to take back our lands. It's time to reignite the fires, to forge new weapons, and to fight back against the Orangered scum.

It's time for war again my friends. Who's with me?