Hello all, just letting you know I'm moving here from @ChrisWere
@Chrs56k @ChrisWere lovely profile pic Chris!
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Baumi@feddit.org
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
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Not sure if it did DM’s, but there’s about 1,000 Roan Cong accounts atm. They make a new one send 1-4 posts and make a new account, with a new domain after a few accounts.
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alt_xa_23 [she/her]
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Did the account start sending DMs? I blocked it fairly quickly
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alt_xa_23 [she/her]
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I pity the poor girl that got her image used by whoever did that. Nothing shakes the feeling that was a smear campaign against her.
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alt_xa_23 [she/her]
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Damn I remember that Nicole thing, feels like its almost ancient lore at this point.
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alt_xa_23 [she/her]
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Searched roan. There’s a whole lot more accounts that were made, about 18-22 hrs ago that haven’t any posts. I blocked a few. But have better things to do, today.
@raphv @davidgerard Honestly, TeX is for weird STEM formulae and incantations. If you're in the humanities you'll do fine without ever formatting an equation sigil.
@haverholm @raphv or do what real scientists do: write it in MS Word and change the font to Computer Modern
Proletarian Rage
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@ESKsindikatua Ver todos los comercios de Gran Vía cerrados es hermoso.
Ver a uno que dice que está abierto 24 horas es profundamente irónico.
Ratas.
Baldur Bjarnason
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(This headline is meant as a pun. I have written this by my own, no LLMs involved, as will become obvious within a few sentences, I hope. [...]
@trini Oops, I'm between baffled and sad, did not expect this at all. :3
I don't want to increase any drama here, was mainly surprised to see the domain issue. I'm sorry.
I definitely thought of working out some sort of a workflow like that
I’ve just decided to bite the bullet and endure the next month and a half of working with Word
But it was tempting
ghostdancer
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i mean, just impeachment would've been okay with me... seems a little extreme
@davidgerard are you sure?
An amended S1/a, which now includes the Q3 numbers, is already on file with the SEC (but yes it doesn't look as good as the first version).
@marjolica yes i saw the S-1/a and the new S-1/b and it's still not the final version they can actually launch
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@clive @mwichary
Ah. I see you don’t use external MIDI sound modules.
Or attempt to edge-edit audio regions.
Or express any sense of mystery as to when Logic selects a single region in a track after recording, or all regions in that track so that if you press Delete you don’t know what you’re deleting.
Or… or…I can go on at significant length. Logic is great; I use it for a number of projects. But it does have pain points. Many, many pain points.
Aha! Yeah, I haven’t run into any of those problems myself
@thestrangelet Capitalism is inherently unethical. The way we fund and build tech and the ownership and control structure of tech – any tech – within the mainstream model under capitalism has always been and will always be unethical. i.e., all Big Tech is unethical. “Ethics in Big Tech” is just a Venn diagram of useful idiots and public relations.
@aral You're not wrong, but LLMs are in a class by themselves, and it's important to recognize just how terrible they are for humanity.
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Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world
me as a mod wondering if I should dismiss the report on this post and leave it up or delete it because it’s off topic
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@USelaine/117594243504542485
Soon! They're on the way to the German warehouse from which they will be shipped out. We've just filed the customs declaration.
