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The mod team has noticed a massive increase in astroturfing and spam promoting a handful of vendors ever since the Broadcom acquisition closed.

This is a reminder that per community rule #4 (see the sidebar), r/vmware has never tolerated spam, shilling, and especially not astroturfing. While vendors and their representatives are more than welcome to participate in the community, the expectation is that this participation adds useful information to discussions that are primarily fixated on VMware products.

Posting links to vendors or products with very little useful information (e.g. "Hey, you should check this product out: <link here>" withou

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Efforts to convince Reddit's management that their upcoming API pricing changes and restrictions are ongoing, and r/vmware is participating by putting the sub into 'Restricted' mode for an indefinite period of time.

In restricted mode, users are able to access the valuable information posted on r/vmware, but will not be able to post or comment.

More information on the coordinated attempt to reverse Reddit's continued enshittification: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/

r/vmware's moderator team will be joining in on the June 12th-14th protest of Reddit's API changes that will essentially kill all 3rd party Reddit apps.

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other

Couldn't find any previous posts about this here, so I wanted to post as a heads-up to the community.

I just received a message from support:

Your account has been flagged for using US Mobile service on devices that are not a basic phone, smartphone or tablet, which violates our Terms and Conditions. As a result, you will have 24 hours to switch the devices on the line <redacted> in your account to an authorized device.

Failure to take this action in due time will result in the system disconnecting this line or any other lines using an unauthorized device. To avoid that, please make sure to switch the devices at your earliest or opt for a Pooled plan on the Warp 5G