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by joecot 3y ago
I've been very much hoping that Apollo and the rest just pivot to being amazing Lemmy/kbin clients, with multiple instances pre-configured to use. That would be the biggest coup of all. Which is exactly what I thought had happened
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by joecot 3y ago
Romans didn't consider opium an addiction as much as a medicine. Same as many of the drugs we now consider illicit. Marcus Aurelius was taking opium every day for "stomach issues" (krohns or similar perhaps?) and "nerves
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by joecot 3y ago
As an aside, when I see people beat themselves up for not being able to face their struggles with the stoic reflection of Marcus Aurelius, I want to remind them that unlike them, Mr Aurelius was extremely wealthy, one of the most powerful m
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by joecot 3y ago
So to be clear: you're fine with all the moderators leaving, but you don't want to moderate, but you also don't want there to be no moderation. You would like an arbitrarily "good" moderation you agree with complete
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by joecot 3y ago
I think the general reddit community underestimates how important moderation is. Yes, you have some moderators who go overboard, push a personal agenda on something that's supposed to be a neutral subreddit, etc. But subreddits without
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by joecot 3y ago
The problem is that reddit's entire system depends on unpaid labor from volunteer moderators. And they just pissed a lot of those moderators off. Yeah, reddit can reopen those subreddits if they want to and kick the mods. But who are t
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by joecot 3y ago
Correct. In general it's a good capitalist scheme. Start with a mostly open platform, court third parties into making tools that make it significantly better, get your user base. Then kill the third parties to consolidate power. It wor
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by joecot 3y ago
Because it hasn't worked before. They bought Alien Blue, made it the official app, failed to iterate on it, and eventually gave up on it. Now they've made a new reddit app, which is also not good. No reddit official app is going t
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by joecot 3y ago
Which is the real reason that reddit is killing both the third party apps and the mobile site. Same reason that Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok make the mobile site as painful as possible. If you're using a website in a browser, the user
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by joecot 3y ago
> Starting high, creating a lot of negative reactions and almost killing any real market for profitable apps on your platform seems to be the opposite of smart It's really dumb if the point is to keep all the third party application
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by joecot 3y ago
I agree that taking the subs private for 48 hours is a good first step. And I agree that subs staying private indefinitely is a good next step. But if neither make headway, just going unmoderated is the logical next step. Yeah, reddit could
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by joecot 3y ago
A better protest would have been for the moderators to all stop moderating. Turn off their automod filters, allow all posts. Show reddit what happens when their volunteer moderators just stop.
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by joecot 3y ago
That's if the bot is coded well. I've cut off bots from sites and services before, only to have them start to DOS because their response to an error was to just try again, immediately and forever
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by joecot 3y ago
If the point was to be profitable, I would get it. But that's not the point. The point is to lock down their users into their app so they have a more solid looking IPO. But the guy planning the IPO is repeatedly saying that reddit isn&
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by joecot 3y ago
I think it's moreso that we need stronger decentralized options to be adopted. Google embraced both email with Gmail and jabber with Google talk. With Google talk they eventually reached a high enough usage rate that they closed it off
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by joecot 3y ago
Since it was a read-only api, I'm assuming they used the readily available json endpoints that require no authentication. reddit blocked it in any of the ways you can block a good faith actor -- by user agent or IP address.
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by joecot 3y ago
The point is to kill third party applications. Social media companies watched Facebook do it with little outrage, and quite a bit of upside -- they completely control the user experience, all by squeezing out 3rd parties slowly and without
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by joecot 3y ago
The initial plan was 2 days. Then Spez did his AMA where it was clear they were not interested in compromising, not planning to change anything, even seeing the enormous protest forming. So while some subreddits are still planning on 2 days
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by joecot 3y ago
Making some amount of profit on it isn't enough. They want to lock down the user experience. Same reason Google started Google Talk with Jabber, then closed off their ecosystem. Same reason Facebook embraced third party apps, then shut
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by joecot 3y ago
reddit wants to kill the third party apps, straight up. Third party apps hurt reddit's ad revenue. The mobile website hurts reddit's ad revenue. Given that listing, I expect he talks about how they resolved all the other issues th
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by joecot 3y ago
That's the thing. A privately owned company can keep its morals if it has them, because the owners don't answer to anyone else. But as soon as a company accepts Venture Capital funding, or goes public, morals go out the window. Th
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by joecot 3y ago
It's all the consumers' fault, except for the part where the bank leadership was making exceptionally risky investments, and also actively and successfully lobbied to be allowed to work around reserve rules designed to explicitly
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by joecot 3y ago
Pumping government money into private markets always works this way. A good example of this is the TV digital converter boxes, when we switched the airwaves from analog to digital. Those boxes were only 10 or 15 bucks or so. But then the go
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by joecot 4y ago
The same reason Russia invaded Ukraine even though it made no sense. The same reason Republicans put up Trump even though it made no sense. If you have 0 morals, you can gain a lot of power by riling up your base with empty promises of nati
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by joecot 4y ago
Is there maybe a linter you can use with C and then use as a required status check on merge requests in GitHub / Gitlab?
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by joecot 4y ago
Stand up comedy with bad unfunny jokes, and situational comedy that is just people talking about their day, with an ill timed laugh track thrown in occasionally. I don't know if it's as funny as Seinfeld, but it seems at least mor
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by joecot 4y ago
The difference is that there's no reason to keep the expensive 4k account. The Premium plan is 4k streaming, and up to 4 devices. But now they want to keep those two features bundled, while limiting your ability to stream to 4 devices
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by joecot 4y ago
If we limit it to people who are using non-prescription drugs, without judgement, this will be the Game Changer they describe. First Heroin, but now cocaine, and even black market cannabis, are being tainted with fentanyl. For that set of p
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by joecot 4y ago
They're specifically targeting Critical Role. It's a serial youtube and twitch series of professional voice actors playing D&D together, with Matt Mercer as the DM. They've been running since 2015, and they're massiv
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by joecot 4y ago
Being a plumber who works for a company means you are given tasks and show up at those assignments. You need to know how to plumb. Being an independent plumber means handling: marketing, networking, customer service, etc, plus plumbing. Lik

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