@gilduran ✅👍💪

@stux and the faster it happens, the less toxic debt bought and sold by banks.

Oh no 🤣

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.

So, you want mods that power trip harder, just in the direction you like?

I dont fully disagree, but it would be a very hard role. They’d be volunteering to cop abuse from all sides relentlessly.

I don't really care how the AI bubble pops, even if it has to be with the dick of Jensen

It just has to go

@Migueldeicaza interesting. Seems like a good one to read after “Vulture Capitalism” by Grace Blakeley.

Same thing happened when Christians ruined Tumblr. I still miss the porn.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOMc_bJpfLQ

@sageolson I have! Just use a cup!

You’re basically emphasizing my point. Reddit started as a subreddit meritocracy. Any and all subreddits could have content on the front page, so long as said content received sufficient upvotes. However, atheists are the most hated religious minority in the U.S., so their content had to be suppressed to cater to commercial interests. It’s viewpoint suppression to cater to the lucrative majority.

@djsundog AHA! Found it.

https://bsky.app/profile/mtsw.bsky.social/post/3n232fif2xc26

@jalefkowit yeah that’s bonkers

Pussycat, Mississippi (1976) https://youtu.be/iF0TdafrWvE

@atax1a oofies, I'm sorry

We know… we were there.

Media’s portrayal of modern Canadian veteran damaging and inaccurate: study https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/medias-portrayal-of-modern-canadian-veteran-damaging-and-inaccurate-study/

now we wait to see if Jensen Huang ends up taking a McAfee turn and going hog wild