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.

what? The good folks at Lemmy.ml didn’t like you talking down about a dictator?

Wild!

今月のクレカに4200ポインヨや​​

Majority Leader Dish - Update 11/10

The wheels are starting to come off the Schumer bus... 😮

Last night the 600,000 member Machinists Union called on Schumer to step down. This morning AOC telegraphed her lack of support. Now, Bernie Sanders just said unequivocally that he will not support Schumer, and that he thinks there will be a challenger (looking at you Chris Van Hollen 👀 ).

Keep up the pressure!

Update: Add Warnock to the 'ready for a change' list. Sanders endorses Van Hollen!

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@ColinTheMathmo I don't think the vast majority are considering Kolmogorov complexity when asking this question. 😀 (Despite it being a fascinating topic, connecting to Godel, Turing, Chaitin etc.)

One could argue its possibly considered in some intuitive/subconscious way. Even then, say, in the example I gave, 16 and 14 are darn close in "complexity" such that if one's thinking of an "obvious" answer, they're fairly indistinguishable - unlike my general formula which is arguably more complex.

I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

Guess who’s keeping an eye on your favorite ice cream truck?!

Prior to the edit people probably thought they were trying to be snarky about the rules inatead of their intent to show the rules are displayed despite the OP not seeing them.

what a wonderful night reconnecting with some of my oldest friends, i hope i never interact with another human as long as i live.

@Farmer_J619@misskey.flowers 誰が言ってました？👀
ただ研究しているのは事実です

Malaysian here. I was gonna make you feel better by pointing out the similarities between us but after looking them up… Yeah, I got nothing.

Welcome.

I’ve been here for four years and I love it. No ads. No AI. Human moderation.

I donate a few bucks to my instances monthly and I’d recommend you do the same. Keeps things nice.

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Every year a Seattle U prof runs a survey to help the Seattle is Dying crowd push more spending on cops, homeless sweeps, and all that good stuff.

Please take a few minutes and fill it out as well as you can.
https://publicsafetysurvey.org/take-the-seattle-public-safety-survey.html

Share it to your Seattle people!
#Seattle #SPD #Housing

@fesshole On the other hand, you didn't get horribly disfigured like in the toxic waste scene in Robocop (1987).

Fwiw, one can be a Marxist Leninist and think Russia’s government sucks. It is anything but Marxist or Leninist.

I know you didn’t mean that, but figured it needed to be said.

The accounts are across many instances …

Good point. If they have a shared identifier (IP or something) than I could see the block list working. If not, and it’s probably not, then yeah, I don’t think the block list would be able to handle that spam.

I wonder if there is any approach that could. Different origins, different entrances, and different targets, that’s a difficult one. It’s not my knowledge base, so maybe something exists that could handle it? I’d be curious to hear about it, probably pretty cool.

Maybe machine learning on interaction rates (sign in to post timeline)? I’m assuming it’s automated though…