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.

Olen elätellyt ajatusta, että laajentaisin yritykseni Digitoimisto Dude Oy:n palvelutarjontaa Mastodon-instanssien hostaamiseen yhdistyksille, yrityksille ja organisaatioille. Hostaamme muutenkin muutakin open source -softaa kuin pelkästään WordPressiä. Ei välttämättä isot markkinat, mutta ei taida kovin moni suomalainen toimija tehdä Mastodon- tai fedihostaamista.

Kuluttajamarkkinoille ei voida lähteä, koska ei pystytä kilpailemaan hinnoilla. Olemme B2B-toimija, enkä itsekään kuluttajana maksaisi vaikkapa Nextcloudista kymmeniä euroja kuukaudessa. Mutta organisaatioille, ehdottomasti, voisi tarjota somepalvelinta, Nextcloudia, Twenty CRM:ää, tai mitä tahansa suvereenia tapaa ajaa palveluita jenkkijättiläisten sijaan.

Nykymarkkinatilanteessa näin yrittäjänä on pakko miettiä vaihtoehtoja ja palvelukattausta. Mitä ajatuksia herättää?

@MaddieM4 @gaditb @rl_dane @cyberquixote Yeah, I think it does begin with being intentional about community. In some ways those things can be part of the spec and developed just like the code is.

I definitely think building a safe spaces is priority, and it's legitimately hard.

Recently I've been pondering how do you defend your space from "sociopaths", because the problem is that those are kind of people who will use any CoC as a tool to further their goals - letter of the law vs intent.

loved one and kid went off to the pictures yesterday at the cineworld just down the street and the cinema got evacuated for a fire alarm

so they're going back to watch the end of the film

they saw wildwood, an animated film, which is rated 12, and the loved one thought it should be a 15, cos it starts with a 12yo boy killing himself jumping off a balcony

it's dark YA level, not 12yo level

"definitely not disney" she says

good film apparently tho

the cinema has 15 screens, a pile of little theatres

and cineworld is happy to show slightly odd stuff, they put Iron Lung across the UK

not bad for a shopping centre cinema

In an overdue response to the slow demise of RSS, X, etc., I finally created a LinkedIn account where I will link to my blog posts. Weird place (image-related).

I'm on a short leash/quota for initiating connections, but happy to reciprocate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mako-hill-132922444/