I stopped talking about politics because I would be brigaded by western/capitalist bros.

With the Ghislaine Maxwell WorldNews moderation stuff I wouldn't doubt if there were more unknowns around banning generally cordial leftist/Pro Palestine/Anti capitalist voices. I mean also just look at the Luigi Mangione crackdown.

It bleeds into conspiracy, so I try not to push it much, but I'm sure there's some type of moderation aspect.

Releasing fucking up political news on a Tuesday.

Rookie move Katie.

one sub i recently visited talking jobs/layoffs got meme-fied recently. because happen tor each the front page a couple times, it drawn into many trolls and bots.

That’s because they’re actually propagandists for those authoritarian governments pretending to be communist. They’re about as communist as the Nazis were socialist.

I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

@jalefkowit These have become very popular in the UK as alternatives to ATVs. Models are available with off-road tyres, 4WD and diff lock.

I've also seen a couple in use by tradespeople here in Ireland. They carry 350kg and are cheap to buy and maintain. (Not speed restricted!)

https://youtu.be/KwBKdZbjjZs

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.

Reddit admins repeatedly asked mods how to make like for them better. And then repeatedly ignored almost every single answer they got, rolling out features nobody wanted and taking away things people used. It was the years and years and years of putting in hours and hours of time working against the enshittification that made me tired, and then it was the stupid fucking over-reaching AI moderation that caused me to leave after my accounts started being banned for no good reason with appeals failing.

It took far too long for them to drive me away, as I know it did for a lot of others.

@lain@lain.com is this loss outside your window???

Day 11. Sound #30DayMapChallenge

Animation visualising the air pressure wave from the Krakatoa eruption of 1883.

Travels out from Krakatoa, reaches antipode (in Colombia) then travels back to whence it came.

This cycle happens several times over the course of a few days

If my maths is right, spread of pressure wave should be in synch with rotation shown

Done with a shader and compositing in Blender.

#blender #b3d

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.

@mcc minikanren is content with talking to 3000 managers

Just like having buying and selling things is not necessarily capitalism, an organization that gets and spends money is not necessarily a company.

To be honest, here I’m also feeling that you can’t say some things if you don’t want to get insulted and downvoted.

I have almost nothing positive to say about Windows so I don’t really mind if only Linux is allowed, but I feel like you have to have an anti-state and anti-police stance here.

I’m none of these and I really understood that it’s difficult to have a different opinion here.

Still, I’m enjoying Lemmy/PieFed, but nuance seems more difficult to have here because it ain’t full of « normies »

Yep. That sure says pizza massage.

Size and commercialisation generally go hand in hand. After all, how do you keep something running with infinite users submitting infinite content for free?

This is a big issue for everyone, it’s important that the fediverse understands that size might some day increase the importance of sensible business models or proactive funding initiatives to counter the growth. This doesn’t mean harmful profit models necessarily, but it does mean keeping revenues under control for individually run nodes or for archiving services for old fediverse domains that might not exist forever.

yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows