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 absolutely agree. I hate watching lets' plays that were originally streamed live for this reason.

CC: @ChrisWere@toot.wales

Democrats are in a race against time to prove that even if you do vote harder, they still won't do anything.

“Kirisuto no Haka (Japanese: キリストの墓) (lit. 'Tomb of Christ') is a tomb claimed to be that of Jesus in Shingō, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

“Kiyomaro Takeuchi claimed that he discovered the tomb in 1935 while he was surveying the village of Herai (current village of Shingō). The Takeuchi documents, which are believed to be a hoax, claim that Jesus underwent training in Japan for 12 years before spreading Christianity. The manuscript also claims that instead of Jesus, his brother Isukiri died on the cross and Jesus escaped to Herai through Siberia, residing there until his death at the age of 106.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirisuto_no_Haka

@ChrisWere I like that you two are just recording them and putting them up after. The downside with a livestream is that the players have to interact with viewers and it pulls the experience out of the game temporarily. This lets you guys focus on the game, which is quite nice. =)

Me and Drew are doing an Ironman run of Divinity: Original Sin 2, where if we die, the run ends. It's going up on YouTube as weekly videos, but they go up on my website straight away.

https://chrs.wales/div2

#videogames #gaming #divinity2

Me and Drew are doing an Ironman run of Divinity: Original Sin 2, where if we die, the run ends. It's going up on YouTube as weekly videos, but they go up on my website straight away.

https://chrs.wales/div2

#videogames #gaming #divinity2

@aphyr None of them will even be able to get the music started.

@Rajah ouf c'était avant la téléportation…

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1568126760962373

@startrekgifs Descent (*)

BREAKING: SEC investigates $ROB (Roblox) for undisclosed averages in spat with $CRAB (Crabs LLC) #BreakingNews

This is now available on iOS. 99c for an all-you-can-smash plate buffet.

https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/plate-smasher/id6478007815

Oh my fuck wait I know her.....

Welp big no comment on the rest of my thoughts on this one lmao.

small world 😅

@daringfireball the context of $2 BIL vs. $300 BIL is really damning evidence. Nvidia made Megaspeed a preferred partner, meaning priority access. There were billions of dollars of orders unfulfilled at same time

Good podcast covering the criminally illegal elements of the scandal
https://overcast.fm/+ABBVQTMkQRs

bittorrent is just extremely good and its full potential has never been really tapped because of its affiliation with piracy. non-piracy uses have gotten as far as making trackers, but i haven't found any work that actually gets down deep into the protocol itself. you can just solve most of bittorrent's problems with smarter trackers and bittorrent v2 but everyone got distracted by shiny things instead and wandered off to other protocols that work less good than bt.

@shauna That's wonderful! Every train should have such videos playing.

@paw I had to choose the frame carefully, for his modesty

@roxy valve is taking a long time to check the game due to all the threes that appear in it