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by deminature 3y ago
There's an article explaining it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule . Of any social network, typically 1% are the power users, 9% are intermittent contributors and 90% are lurkers.
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by deminature 3y ago
Getting rid of moderators turns reddit into 4chan. If you want that, fine, but there's already a website for unfiltered hate speech and spam.
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by deminature 3y ago
Depending on the outcome of the AMA with spez tomorrow [1], and how much it ends up inflaming the situation, that may well happen. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
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by deminature 3y ago
Pissing off the people doing thankless free labor to keep your subreddits moderated and site functional seems like a poor choice. This is going to be quite an event when it kicks off Monday.
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by deminature 3y ago
Steve appears to have assumed there is no recording, so he can represent the conversation dishonestly. Unfortunately, there is a recording, so we can all hear that it wasn't a threat and that the reddit representative admitted that on
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by deminature 3y ago
Yes it does request location, it says in the image I linked above. Advertising identifiers are declined roughly 20% of the time according to Adjust: >In iOS 10, Apple introduced "Limit Ad Tracking" setting for users who do not
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by deminature 3y ago
Of course they can track you to some degree either way, however the official app is using an IDFA (advertising identifier) [1] whereas Apollo is not, which makes tracking in the official app significantly easier. The official app is also ho
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by deminature 3y ago
The iOS privacy permissions are different between the official app and Apollo: - Official app https://i.imgur.com/fjgKlVo.png , see 'Data used to track you' - Apollo app https://i.imgur.com/icykgJP.
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by deminature 3y ago
The official app collects far more data points to identify users for ad targeting than the third party clients do (check the permissions asked). They may have decided there's no way to effectively monetize third-party app users to the
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by deminature 3y ago
5$/month for premium is fair to remove ads, Youtube has a similar but more expensive option in their app. Removing the ability to use third-party clients altogether is dumb.
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by deminature 3y ago
I doubt the reason is morality, it's to hamstring 3rd party apps so they are baseline inferior to the official client. It's sabotaging the competition so anyone seeking a 'full' reddit experience is forced to use the off
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by deminature 3y ago
The answer here is for reddit to make an actually good app and win the market back by simply being the better alternative. The fact that they've decided they can't compete with apps written by individual developers and need to res
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by deminature 3y ago
The SEC has made it clear which parts of securities law Coinbase is violating in a Wells notice issued in March https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/6G5AjtDvRqRdiwlijK... .
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by deminature 3y ago
It's not reasonable - the SEC has already provided clarity on crypto to Coinbase however they don't like the answer, because the answer potentially involves them being regulated out of existence.
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by deminature 4y ago
Being 'sherlocked' [1] is a time-honored tradition of 3rd party devs getting their lunch eaten by Apple. Anyone publishing an app knows they can be put out of business without notice if Apple likes your idea too much. [1] https:&
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by deminature 4y ago
Fair enough, in that case this is Digg v4 levels of arrogance. Tons of moderators depend on 3rd party apps to moderate [1]. These people are providing free labor on an industrial scale to reddit and it might be wise not to frustrate their w
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by deminature 4y ago
I'm trying to take the most charitable interpretation possible instead of assuming malice on the part of reddit, but it's difficult to interpret it any other way than they have decided to kill 3rd party clients and not be upfront
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by deminature 4y ago
3rd party reddit apps rival reddit's own app in terms of popularity, and will be significantly hamstrung by these changes if NSFW content can only be accessed in the official app. Lots of non-porn content is marked NSFW. It may end up
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by deminature 4y ago
VS Code has a quasi-IDE implemented for a bunch of popular languages including a debugger [1]. Sublime is a straight text editor, with limited debugging capability. Sheer usefulness beats performance, so VS Code won the editor war. [1] htt
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by deminature 4y ago
VS Code is a great success of Electron-based apps but also has massive memory usage and performance bloat that comes with this style of app, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144039 Sublime Text is implemented nati
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by deminature 4y ago
Maybe unpopular opinion but PWAs generally just suck compared to their native counterparts. There's always something perceptibly 'wrong' that makes them an inferior user experience, even if only marginally so. I worked on PWA
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by deminature 4y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449473
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by deminature 4y ago
Apple's App Store has a specific rule that excludes many PWAs from being approved, you may have a tough time convincing a reviewer that it should be allowed on the store https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review
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by deminature 4y ago
Years of experience
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by deminature 4y ago
Still dead as a doornail, despite misleadingly now being labelled as a 'partial outage'.
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by deminature 4y ago
And yet despite these numbers, somehow the most prominent open source software is relentlessly impersonated and Google is the facilitator, FTA: https://twitter.com/wdormann/status/1616497407390355456 It's cle
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by deminature 4y ago
This is not some impossibly intractable algorithmic problem to solve. Simply actioning malware reports on the ad would be sufficient. If an ad receives hundreds of reports over the course of months, there's problem something wrong with
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by deminature 4y ago
I'm not talking about advertising on someone else's brand, I'm talking about advertising AS someone else's brand, or malicious impersonation. The most basic vetting of advertising would catch this, but apparently this is
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by deminature 4y ago
Why are they accepting ads for a product from anyone but the verified maker of the product in the first place? Surely there's budget in that river of ad money to do the most basic due diligence?
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by deminature 4y ago
They've allowed a prominent malware ad to appear on any search results for Blender for months despite numerous reports. They're not taking action on these bad actors. https://old.reddit.com/r/blender/comm

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