yet another thing that Farm & Feast and Melvor Idle 2 inexplicably have in common

in Melvor Idle 2 sheep also generate meat passively

Reddit started becoming shitty because people are shitty.

It started long before the API restrictions, long before the commercialisation.

No, it started failing when the influx of new users grew exponentially, but the systems to support it didn't.

Subreddits were no longer communities, they became information and discussion hubs.

With the influx of people, further moderation was needed. But mod vetting isn't that easy, and a lot of people who had absolutely no business moderating communities, let alone social hubs, got a whiff of power that drove them crazy.

And that leads to splinter communities, some abandoned, some forced to give up, and an overall mess to this all.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sabrinkmann/117553880632408025

Oh wow, this software is fully functional Fediverse software (thanks to @botkit), and you can also find it on the @blog website. I didn't add it, but the database found it due to interactions with other software: https://fedidb.com/software/fediverse-wrapped
I just found it while browsing the database for other reasons with @vr_alex89 The Fediverse is a really cool place!

@carnage4life I can't remember the specifics but when I was digging through the AWS v2 SDK, a lot of it felt generated anyway. More like Hibernate boilerplate code generation rather than AI.

Maybe they do have very strict naming conventions as you'd want to do for something like that but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of their code was generated before AI.

Shame it doesn't result in someone having the time to improve their web UI for AWS.

LB: I remember when the rise of smartphones started killing Flash thinking that we were going to regret this one day.

Meanwhile other local journo's have already documented SPD blatantly defying orders not to support ICE operations.

SPD literally helped ICE conduct an illegal removal operation just earlier this year.

There's almost certainly more cases bc the kidnappings are moving faster than most local groups can fully follow.

https://www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-pd-assisted-ice-as-they-worked-to-deport-college-student/

#Seattle #SPD #ICE #FuckICE

Of course, the next congress (seated in just a few weeks) is free to vote on the same charges.

Although impeachment has some of the trappings of a criminal process, it is not one, and there's no protection against double jeopardy. When and on what grounds to impeach is entirely up to the House, and whether to convict entirely up to the Senate.

That’s a very lucrative “honeypot” … 🤔

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/policy/alice-huang-reportedly-instrumental-in-securing-over-usd7-5-billion-of-nvidia-ai-gpu-imports-during-three-year-relationship-with-jensen-huang-helped-move-240-000-banned-chips-into-china-mostly-h100-and-h200

@hannah No, I did not know that. Now I need to go sit in a dark room for a while

@efi we're definitely putting "cows just give you meat as a gift for letting them stay in your hotel" in megalomanager

Flash was critised for many reasons from the valid to pure snobbery.

Since it's gone, we've lost an outlet for creativity - a way that many people went from being kids running a pirate bit of software to being employed making art / films / games.

We have Ruffle to play Flash, but we are still missing an editor - but Bill Premo is impmenting one, and has a Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/cw/billpremo it's definitely worth supporting.

Lemmy is already struggling with many of the same issues as Reddit; poor and / or objectionable moderation or moderators, bots and bot activity, politically motivated disinformation, groupthink, brigading, and censorship.

Scale makes the problems more noticeable because it makes them happen more frequently but it doesn’t create the problems. It’s the same with Commercialization, it’s doesn’t create those problems it simply highlights them.

@ramsey

Which I do find a pity because without a real discussion, all the negative aspects will get continued without any impact.

@rolle tuli mieleen et voisko mastodon toimia ikään ku kivana kylkiäisenä muiden palveluiden ohessa, jos se ois ympättynä jonkinlaiseen pakettiratkaisuun. Et saisko sitä näin myytyä sellaisillekin asiakkaille, jotka ei oo ees kuulleet mastodonista.

@chris Damn straight.

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.

I didn’t know about this sub but now am horrified and unsurprised.

I'm Russian. None of my ancestors were involved in American slavery or the slave trade. So why should I be expected to pay reparations? I fully acknowledge the injustice of slavery and its lasting consequences, but how does that translate into financial responsibility for people whose families had absolutely nothing to do with it?

@ben ah! I was assuming you were playing another weird erotica VN