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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
This is reminding me of when all the Vine power creators banded together and tried to make demands or they would "stop creating" and all it resulted in was Twitter deleting them and their entire website. Don't be surprised if
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
wired is the absolute epitome of enshitification
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I'm astounded that he was actually able to run a business pulling in $500,000 a year in subscriptions without ever having to pay the actual platform the users are "subscribing" to a dime. And he's been doing this for w
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I'm seeing a lot of similarities between Reddit benefiting greatly from their unpaid moderators and Apollo benefiting from them the same. As well as not even having to pay Reddit at all. Did Apollo ever even have to pay for anything
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
Wild guess, but I suspect their feed algorithms as well as caching and sharding strategies made a number of assumptions about the availability of various different kinds of data and now that it's (mostly) no longer in the state they as
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
The "fediverse" is a already absolutely overrun by bots and spam. Mastadon sites in particular. Nobody is running one of these things for longer than a few months until they just get tired of dealing with it.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I guess so. But I also suspect that their value isn't as much as they think it is. Some will actually leave, but most will stay and just continue to grumble about it. And keep working for free.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
The reality is that the Reddit users that actually care about this enough to show up and rage in the AMA are also the ones that are almost completely unmonetizable. So I doubt there was ever really any risk of major loss from this.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
> allows the developer some discretion on how the ads can be formatted visually this is absolutely the opposite of what they would want. Brands have very tight control over display advertising and would have to approve it everywhere
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
it's because the Reddit users that are actually bothered by this are unmonetizable and everyone knows it. nobody is eager to jump into that sink hole and Reddit itself is happy to be free of it.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I've also understood that the behavior is most pronounced in cats that were removed from their litter and mother too soon.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
Hard-delete isn't required by GDPR. The data itself just has to be made non-identifiable. You don't actually have to remove the database records, for instance.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
This is what an HOA is for. If you don't have one then you should make one. If you don't want to make one then you can move somewhere else.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
Reddit had already been rewritten in Python long before Digg's collapse. Several years. There may have still been ancillary services in Lisp, but nothing production-critical.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
There's pretty much no scenario where Reddit wants to encourage 3rd party app developers to run their own intermediate "proxy" service for Reddit's API. For one it adds another barrier between Reddit and their own users
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I don't think the average small town in USA really ever suffered grocery stores with empty shelves which was extremely common throughout the former Soviet Union. If they even had a grocery store at all. The quality of living was sig
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I'm wondering how someone like the USA government manages this? They have massive deployments of Intel x86 like at the Utah Data Center [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
can't you just get a different license plate if you want to though
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
nah just seize the domain
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
How does that work for clients though. Should Apollo ship a headless chromium in their mobile app
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
Reddit is a SPA though right
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
He made a nice frontend for _Reddit_. That's what they paid for and that's what they want. Not some alternative Reddit. And the people that actually install and use a dedicated Reddit app, like this one, is miniscule. It'
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
What are the two different reasons?
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
Visa alone processes 100,000,000 transactions per day. All of them with "purchase protection". ie, there's reversibility for fraud via charge-backs, etc. We live in the real world where people make mistakes and need some h
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I enjoyed the _meat_ of the article, but really disliked the stream-of-thought narrative of the post. But I know it's this author's style. So that's fine. Anyway. Is there something better than just screen-shotting your t
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
> The current web demands deanonymization. And naturally "abuse" is blamed I used to work at a smallish mom-and-pop website host (do those even exist anymore?) that also offered email services. Our PF firewall just straight-up
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
San Francisco's Homeward Bound program is run by the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Obviously not privately run.
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
> As a result, some (particulary Republican) regions give them one way bus tickets to other (particularly Democrat) regions Seattle, Portland, Denver, San Francisco and many other "blue" cities all have "Homeward Bound&quo
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
San Francisco and Oakland are facing combined close to $500 million budget shortfall and are requesting a federal tax payer bailout. The second major federal bailout in eight years. Oakland has one of the highest violent crime rates in th
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by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
Yeah this was terrible. First, we did a privilege escalation. How? They don't say. Next, we did another privilege escalation. And how?? They don't say. what's the point of this

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