“… the salmon industry is also a microcosm of problems of sovereignty in Scotland itself ... farmed ‘Scottish’ salmon is 0% Scottish-owned …”

https://fiftysixdegreesnorth.substack.com/p/salmon-as-a-symbol-of-scottish-food?r=5teob&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The original demographic was male, 20-40, geek. Conversations were pretty mild, very respectful.

Only if you were also a 20-40 yr old man.

@lowqualityfacts Your posts give me hope in a fact based world.

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.

I hate housework, you dust, vacuum, do the dishes and laundry, and then 6 months later you have to do it again.

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA):

1 House Sparrow
2 Black-capped Chickadee
3 Tufted Titmouse
4 Downy Woodpecker
5 American Robin
6 Dark-eyed Junco
7 Red-bellied Woodpecker
8 House Finch
9 Song Sparrow
10 Northern Cardinal

#Birds #BirdsongDetection #Haikubox

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA):

1 House Sparrow
2 House Finch
3 American Goldfinch
4 Tufted Titmouse
5 Red-bellied Woodpecker
6 Downy Woodpecker
7 Black-capped Chickadee
8 White-breasted Nuthatch
9 American Robin
10 Dark-eyed Junco

#Birds #BirdsongDetection #BirdWeather

BONG, BONG

Mongolia’s iconic grasslands are in crisis — invisible fungi could help save them
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03589-9
Clues suggest that underground fungal networks might be key to reviving degraded land and preserving plant biodiversity.

#Vanderbilt #University hit in #BYOD #ransomware attack, data theft claimed

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vanderbilt-university-hit-in-byod-ransomware-attack-data-theft-claimed/

#cybersecurity #DataBreach #privacy #education #college

@fireborn my favorite one is still the one where sound just kinda starts drifting further and further back. vibrate. pause. pause. pause. ding. Or press a key on the keyboard. 3 seconds later. click. lmao. good job apple. @guilevi @Kaliah

Imagine being an adult human person with an education in something and a job that pays you money, and thinking Reddit is some sort of leftwing conspiracy. You literally had Ghislaine Maxwell moderating some of the biggest subs in the entire site and this guy thinks they’re leftists. Amazing.

Down here on planet earth, Reddit is not leftwing

I’ve used Reddit heavily for 16-17 years. The slide was slow and incremental and began at least 10 years ago. These are the reasons I would estimate have caused Reddit to become what it is now:

• Intentional political polarisation. The owners made their political affiliations clear over the years, and have not been shy about wielding their control. Every decision, from firing Victoria, to creating terms of service which excluded racism against white people, to hiring very left wing progressives as administrators and staff, to hiring Pao, to selective rule enforcement, has resulted in a place where even mild dissent is generally not tolerated. An echo-chamber in the truest sense. It’s so bad that it is now violent. We have cases of killers who became radicalised on Reddit. Something people may not know is that there is a very incesutous relationship between the moderators of the top subreddits and the owners and administrators. The larger subs are required to have administrators on the team, and they mostly control all of the large subreddits. It gets worse though, because the automated moderation system flags accounts which are banned by the moderators on those large subs. They get selectively tougher enforcement. Meaning that anyone who dares post in /r/Politics and doesn’t agree has all of their posts scrutinised to a much higher degree, and people are frequently banned from the entire website for innocuous reasons.

• The demographic became much younger over time. This is a product-led decision. Children are easier to manipulate and get addicted. They’re easier to control and indoctrinate. They’re an easy target to which to foment anger and “engagement.”

• The audience became much wider. Another product-led decision. The original demographic was male, 20-40, geek. Conversations were pretty mild, very respectful. With a much wider audience, all semblance of “Reddiquette” has disappeared. No one has a shared frame of reference anymore. The people who joined either didn’t care about civility, or were used to combative social spaces such as Twitter and Facebook. They brought those practises with them, and Reddit embraced it and encouraged it.

• Reddit embraced bots. They look great for advertising metrics. They foment that hate and engagement. I estimate that the majority of comments on Reddit are bots now. In some subreddits I would not be surprised if 90%+ were bots. Bots can’t be reasoned with. They’ll just keep spewing hate forever.

I honestly think Reddit is a dead man walking. Even the hyper partisan left wing people hate the site now. Everyone is waiting for an alternative. This is Digg all over again, but at a larger scale.

@talon @guilevi @Kaliah 27.3 is noticeably worse in a lot of ways, not all of which are obvious. Audio playing, for example, can now have 2 conflicting streams that cancel each other out and you have no sound or speech as a result. It's not obvious that that's what's happened, you just get silence

Have you heard about the general strike in Spain today?

https://social.fau.org/@fau_gesamt/117597133573205145

@nixCraft maybe LLMs will die from huffing too much of their own fumes and we will go back to arranging meetings on community noticeboards with like-minded people.

#LabourTheft