One of the reasons I bailed out of twitter when I did was after having a post of mine Go Viral, the oldschool Biblically Accurate Going Viral sense of breaking platform containment and making the news in "real" media all over the world.

I felt ... complicit. As in, I know Twitter is really unhealthy, but in less than 140 characters I've just given thousand and maybe millions of people a reason to try it or keep using it. It felt complicit and gross and I'd rather not repeat that feeling.

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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.

There might be some kind of case to be made that reddit did get too big for what it was, but lemmy won't have to worry about that until it's at least a hundred times its present size.

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Classic

@carnage4life this shows the problems with working in a sausage fest kind of faux meritocracy-he thinks the stereotypical communicative woman who can understand the customer requests and talk to the customers in a way to increase mutual connection is more likely to be automated than the savant coder whose communications are long highly detailed explanations that just confuse and annoy, rather than connect with and reassure. My Claude is real good at the latter, and surprisingly bad at the former

@chris @clive Thanks! Do you have an example of where BBEdit did something well, and maybe others stumbled?

she struggles with social cues you say, but have you seen that she is hyperliterate with extremely online memes

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@Thayer the only time got a disapproving look from @flyingsilk was when I announced I want to make a bike license 😬😂

@ai6yr i used to use VNC all the time and nobody ever logged in and changed MY wallpaper.

I feel so unloved.

@TwoClownsEating @TheBreadmonkey Yes, they were rife, along with EasyEverything internet cafes. I was always kind of intrigued, but I spent way too much money in the Japanese hipster hairdressers instead. Until my regular stylist had to go back to Japan to help her friend who had murdered her mum or something.

Doesn't it seem actually very bad that the corporate-algo internet has decided it's OK to censor all content for "language"? I know we have been here for a while now, but I just can't believe that an entire generation has grown up knowing if you use the word "sex" your video/post won't be seen by anyone. Or even if you're watching uncensored content, no "sensitive" words can appear in the closed captions, so they don't even make sense. Isn't that obviously discrimination?

@karolherbst @erincandescent Mostly just that naming things is one of the 3 hardest problems in computer science.

But yeah, to me the english mapping doesn't fully make sense. You don't create a device. The device is a thing that exists. But you can create a context from which everything else derives.

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@jon Love what y'all are doing with Vivaldi! (My picture & quote were on your website a while back referencing an article I wrote.) ;)

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