cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@wohali that's a 100% hit rate among visual novels made in rpgmaker because there was one other I've played ever and I'm pretty sure even if it didn't have specific dialogue about it the author gave off the vibe that they could pull it off

@mattblaze no! what is it?

Dangerous, how?

The hope is that we’ll have proper community support on mastodon by then

@ai6yr
What I really want to know is there is why the 737-1/500 can tolerate -45C, but the 6/900 can only go to -43C

This one is kinda giving me Depeche Mode vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ep5Wob2OI

#CurrentBop #NowPlaying

@amcooper Yeah... even (or especially?) when threatened with personal consequences.

@clive @grumpasaurus There did cram some AI stuff into it, though.

@ben lucky

@fesshole you are very wrong and going to be very sorry when the toast police come for you

I actually worry for when Reddit fully implodes, because the ensuing migration wave to Reddit will bring the same problems and solutions with them.

Yes, i miss some aspects of Reddit, but I’m aware of the hypocrisy that comes with that statement as well

Hello! So how does this work? I am trying to figure out this federated things.

How did you connect?

asymmetric virtual paper mariolike

@MikeImBack Can't believe you didn't say wassup bro.

can't believe I played two rpgmaker visual novels today that both were weird about people being gay in a way that felt like good writing and not bigoted writing

I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

privacy on the fediverse? whats that