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.

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3n232ayght22k

"Blazing Saddles" nailed this storyline decades ago.

#USPol #politics #HaveANiceDay

"When the rest of the country settles up with the Internal Revenue Service, the man who presides over it will be holding an estimated $3.2 billion in potential write-offs, Forbes estimates, enough to dodge $1.2 billion of taxes.

All he has to do is give away golf courses he gets to keep."

Dan Alexander for Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2026/11/11/forget-the-ballroom-trumps-3-billion-tax-play-is-his-legacy-project/

@ramsey I'll spend an hour prentending I'm not an enthusiastic glutton! Look kindly upon your servant, oh LORD!

Oh, happy day!

Chuck Hubbard appears to have ousted Virginia Foxx in NC-05 as provisionals, cured ballots counted

https://ncnewsline.com/2026/11/11/hubbard-appears-to-defeat-foxx-in-nc-05-as-provisionals-cured-ballots-counted/

@lanodan @shinmera BearSSL is great but doesn't yet have TLS 1.3 because of TLS 1.3 has misfeatures that make it hard to implement well. If 1.3 ever becomes mandatory I'm sure there'll be a solution of some sort. For now 1.2 is fine.

To the contrary, socialism can only work at scale. I’m not arguing for full horizontalism, I’m arguing for a collectivized and planned economy run by cells of people laddering upwards.

@TheBreadmonkey

[Verse 1]
I've just come down from the Isle of Skye
I'm no very big and I'm awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
"Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say, "Hello
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Verse 2]
A lassie took me to a ball
And it was slippery in the hall
And I was feared that I would fall
For I had nae on my troosers

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say, "Hello
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Verse 3]
Now I went down to London town
And I had some fun in the underground
The ladies turned their heads around
Saying, "Donald, where are Ben's trousers?"

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say, "Hello
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Verse 4]
To wear the kilt is my delight
It is not wrong, I know it's right
The Highlanders would get a fright
If they saw me in the trousers

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say, "Hello
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Verse 5]
The lassies want me every one
Well, let them catch me if they can
You canna take the breeks off a Highland man
And I don't wear the troosers

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say, "Hello
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Interlude]
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?
Donald, where's Ben's troo—
Oh, well, that's the way
We sing the song in Scotland
But of course the song might
Have more international appeal
Sung something like this:
A-one, two, three, four

[Verse 6]
Well, I've just come down from the Isle of Skye
I'm no very big and I'm awful shy
The lassies shout when I go by
"Hey, Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies shout, go, go
"Hey, Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Verse 7]
Oh man, I'm all rock and roll
And I'm a-moving and a-grooving to save my soul
Grab Ben's kilt and go, go, go
Hey, Donald, where's Ben's troosers?

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
Oh yeah, go, go, go
Hey, Donald, where's Ben's troosers?
Hey, Donald, where's Ben's troosers?
Yeah, hey, Donald—

[Interlude]
Hey, just a minute
What are you doing there?
(Man, I'm rocking it, man)
(Man, I'm really moving it, man)
Well, just you stop rocking it and moving it, man
The song should be sung just exactly like this:

[Verse 8]
I've just come down from the Isle of Skye
I'm no very big and I'm awful shy
And the lassies shout when I go by
"Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Chorus]
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go
All the lassies say, "Hello
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?"

[Outro]
Donald, where's Ben's troosers?

@jalefkowit

Hold my leather jacket

@jalefkowit retelling of Sun Tzu training the king’s hundred concubines to march in formation, but it’s playing War Thunder

RE: https://mstdn.social/@michaelmagras/117600327414725650

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!

this, hands down, is the most important election not just this year, but of the century. well done #ScottColom 🥳 🥳 🥳

#Mississippi #Midterms2026

I have been waiting all day for this headline. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy. #USPol

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/11/us/mississippi-senate-election-midterms?unlocked_article_code=1.PlE.zPx9.XtEMbYjixDwp&smid=nytcore-android-share

Sources: Howard Lutnick has stalled curbs on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China; Trump approved them for the third time this year on Nov. 5 (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/11/trump-lutnick-nvidia-china-chip-export-controls
http://www.techmeme.com/261111/p46#a261111p46

@jalefkowit Ok you could do _something_ with that prompt

@Alice G-d it's like I *know* you, but if I did I wouldn't admit it, y'know?

The thing with defederation is, if I’m paying the bills to keep a website running, I’m going to decide what that website hosts. And if your website is filled with people spewing shit I don’t want to host, I’m just straight up blocking your website.

At the end of the day, each fediverse website is a content mirror. I, as an administrator, have ultimate control over what content I mirror. You, as an end user, get to choose which site you’re using. That’s the deal. You choose your administrator, not control them.