More... Newsweek is also running with the Warner 'uncommitted' story. Still not buying it, but IF Schumer has lost Warner, Schumer is done for. Just don't get your hopes up.

I'll be sad to see it go ... but people aren't wrong to call it outdated.

Hong Kong Free Press: " ‘A Symphony of Lights’ to dim for good next Wednesday after 22-year run"

hongkongfp.com/2026/11/11/a-sy…

This also provides a working example of how infinite supply of mediocre works distorts the market for everybody in it, which software developers seem to have a hard time understanding. Or think that their industry is somehow exempt from basic microeconomics.

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.

Wait, you mean you have your own personal preferences implemented on your own instance but don’t force those preferences onto others?

Amazing! Who would have ever guessed!?

Good news: The Nerd Reich is officially a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Nonfiction.

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#Books #NerdReich #Nonfiction

@bich Our flowering indoor plants bloom 2-3 times/year. It's nice seeing blooms at different times of the year; especially in deep Winter.

The dog dedicated himself to Being A Problem all throughout walkies. Fortunately, all that activity has worn him out and the rest of his day will now be spent napping the naps of the dutiful and justified.

@LabSpokane it was in the papers last fuckin year!

@christianselig This is so cool

Have you considered https://givin.gifts? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.

I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I’m happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.

@WizardOfDocs I think so. The wording of these posts is so similar that I suspect a bot of some sort.

@CrimethInc
And in the rain, damn.

By not banning one, you allow them all. Then it’s a nazi place.

It’s the Nazi Bar.

East, west:

Bulgarian:
IZTOK, ZAPAD (also the usual ordering),

Russian:
VOSTOK, ZAPAD (I think also the usual ordering).

By the way, ORIENS is East, and hence "orientation" (I didn't see that mentioned in the thread).

@sil @jim_easterbrook @simontatham

Reddit is genuinely terrible now. Have you visited recently? All is removed, posts and comments default to sorting by best instead of hot (which mixes minutes-old posts with week-old posts), there’s an algorithmic For You feed, there are constant popups to log in or use the app…

And after all that, the content you’re looking at was probably posted by a bot.

I stopped secret santa after 2 years in a row of not getting a gift. People would sign up to get free stuff essentially and never send out anything. Kinda ruined it for me to be reminded that people are generally shitty