bardfinn

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by bardfinn 3y ago
I also keep coming back to the metaphor that Reddit is a great deal like Gormenghast: an ancient, stony fortification of cobbled-together structures, housing a gaggle of idiosyncratic personas whose lives are filled with the performances of
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by bardfinn 3y ago
I moderate tens of subreddits, some of the most prominent and significant in the Reddit ecosystem. So yes indeed, I would say I have "spent time"
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by bardfinn 3y ago
If they pick moderators, those moderators are no longer volunteers, but employees & agents of Reddit, Inc. — and because of legal precedents with how moderators were engaged with AOL & LiveJournal, anything those technically-employe
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by bardfinn 3y ago
It really would be bad if Reddit collapsed. Facebook is a former juggernaut of manipulating midwesterners and grandparents by driving them to bigoted echo chambers and serving them Republican targeted adverts. Now it is a wasteland of corpo
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by bardfinn 3y ago
The AI “gold rush” has already left the station, yyeeeaarrsss ago. The people who are going to monetize it are the people for whom the threshold of entry to the data sets is an insignificant threshold even at tens of thousands of dollars a
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by bardfinn 3y ago
Reddit has expectations of what moderators are to do, and has expectations of what they are not to do, and will remove them from roles if they fail to meet those expectations. That set of expectations would make them employees if compensate
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by bardfinn 3y ago
Their willingness to exempt screen reader / accessibility capable or accessibility focused third party apps from API pricing is good faith IMO. So the NSFW changes seem to be prompted by regulatory threats & Reddit getting the appr
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by bardfinn 3y ago
Their fight with ad blocking is the same Cold War every other social media site has. If they’re serving ads off of distinctly named infrastructure, or even distinctly subnetted or IP-addressed infrastructure, an adblocking router config wil