The last of our beach adventure photos from today.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

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.

If I could nominate one object to represent our throwaway society in a museum it's this stupid promotional pen that lives in our lab drawer. It has a mini torch in the lid, but that doesn't work anymore because the battery's gone (before the ink did) and there's no way to replace it without breaking the plastic lid. Some company presumably commissioned thousands of these little pieces of ewaste and gave them away to promote itself, but I can't even find out which one it was to vow never to buy anything from them again because it also fails at its primary function and the marketing details have rubbed off.

"Old woman yells at pen"

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@hacks4pancakes

What? You're not Finished yet?

@feritae could you send a bug report via https://vivaldi.com/bugreport so our devs can test this? 😊 Thank you!!

A new edition of my classic game “Reverend Elvis - The Game” from 2016. https://undeadnetwork.de/game/
Fight law enforcement, government officials, bankers, and yuppies. Let the policewoman pamper you and collect all the coins.
Make the world a better place!

@Jer "eat that bug" "yessir"

Klik was Russian. Spam was Lithuanian, I think. We don’t talk about Spork at all. /s

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

@onepict @siwek @MaddieM4 @gaditb @rl_dane @cyberquixote

I just came across this post yesterday which sounds a lot like the black hole analogy:

https://hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual-harassment/

Šéf antimonopolního úřadu Petr Mlsna neví, proč mu Národní bezpečnostní úřad odebral prověrku, řekl ČT. Hodlá se proti rozhodnutí bránit všemi dostupnými prostředky.