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Yeah, it’s quite the rabbit hole.
I think there’s still a place for certain types of pre-orders.
There are many projects where the production of the product requires an upfront cost and a pre-order is needed to cover these.
I have pro-ordered many a small batch electronics device and have had no issues. However, in these cases the design of the device is already complete and the features/specs all known in advance.
The same goes for all the books I’ve pre-ordered from indie publishers, for the same reason, the book is already finished but production is too expensive for a small publisher to cover without pre-sales.
The issues come when pre-ordering something that _isn’t_ complete, especially if it’s working on an as-of-yet unsolved problem. Frankly, I wish that platforms like kickstarter would have a dedicated section for “production cost” pre-orders that had a different sales agreement and some vetting to ensure that products got delivered and were as advertised.
It’s definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.
I’m no fan of corpo platforms—I’d love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don’t want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.
I definitely agree that these types of blocking are ineffective and generally do more harm than good, but if governments are going to push for this stuff, it would be good to have a solution that doesn’t harm people’s security and privacy.