Because the entire mod team resigned, it could either be:

1. The entire team got fed up with the drama and resigned.
2. The top mod got fed up with the drama and booted everyone out, including himself.

I don’t think it was a protest from the other mods against the powertripping one as I don’t know how resigning is going to do anything useful. It’s more likely that this incident invited a lot of people to the subreddit and the mods just got tired of dealing with it. And because mods can’t close the subreddits like they did in 2023 anymore without Reddit’s permission, they all just resigned or the top mod just purged everyone.

I don’t think Reddit’s global rules prohibit sales. Otherwise, all the porn subreddits promoting OnlyFans would’ve been nuked. /r/art’s own rules prohibit sales, as seen here:

IMHO, this rule is a bit extreme but it isn’t without reason. Without this rule, the subreddit would be flooded with people trying to sell art. Selling art isn’t a problem, but if the entire subreddit is just people trying to sell their own artwork, then the community will just turn into FB Marketplace. And I would imagine the users wouldn’t like that.

The issue isn’t the rule. The issue is that the mods are powertripping assholes who just outright banned the dude and purged his entire post history on /r/art.

Sadly, they only removed access to new API keys. Existing ones still work, for now.

Why this is “sad” is because Reddit has learned from the past. They won’t immediately take drastic changes that will immediately piss off a big chunk of their users. Instead, they’ll do it slowly so fewer people will feel the immediate impact. But eventually, this will affect everyone.

And why this sucks for us is because if there’s no massive outrage like the one in 2023, there won’t be a mass migration to the Fediverse.

What benefit does this have over a Zigbee dongle on Amazon that’s cheaper? Would the advantage be that this is a 3-in-1 dongle?

Depends on the community. I’ve met some very helpful noob-friendly developers who recognize you’re a noob and will use simpler terms to guide you through the process, and passive aggressive assholes that’ll ignore your messages the very second they figure out you’re a noob. Even though they were literally just talking to you seconds before.