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

One thing that has shocked me is the amount of AI sites that have cropped up for WoW Forever. You used to be able to quickly search and get actually good written articles top of the search results for WoW. Now it’s AI drivel.

#Warcraft

In a world where everything is tracked and mapped, how do we share data responsibly? Join the ODI for a free webinar w/ Denise McKenzie (co-author of the Locus Charter) exploring real-world solutions like PLACE and Common Space. Book your spot: https://theodi.org/news-and-events/events/ethics-first-data-sharing-in-a-world-where-everything-is-mapped/
#DataEthics #DigitalGovernance

@xenogon many, but my latest track (by my alter-ego sknot) qualifies: https://sknot.fr/what-will-it-take/index.html

Chip in for iPhanpy’s $99 Apple tax!

To keep iPhanpy on the App Store (and AltStore), I need to renew my Apple Developer account yearly. The price is USD $99 per year, and while I'm covering this expense myself for now, any contributions to help offset the costs are appreciated!

iPhanpy started as a way to scratch my own itch of wanting the best Mastodon client to be treated as a first-class citizen on iOS. A lot of people shared that same itch, so it was published to the App Store, and I've been updating it periodically ever since.

Any value exceeding the $99 target will be sent to @phanpy directly, as my job's just a repackaging and Phanpy is what deserves all the support ;)

https://ko-fi.com/fantinel

#phanpy #iphanpy

Damn I remember that Nicole thing, feels like its almost ancient lore at this point.

I signed up for the Reddit secret Santa once like a decade ago. Spent a bunch of time researching what to get, and made a really thoughtful gift bag of candy and toys from Western Canada based on what my recipient told me he liked.

The person who got me as their recipient sent me a $5 Amazon comic book for a video game I’ve never played. It looked and felt like the grocery store fliers you get in the mail.

Oh and whoever I sent my gift to claimed he never received it.

@SchtroumpfGrognon Est-ce que tu aimes la tranquillité ? 🤔

Incredible.

@dgar I was attempting to be funny, I didn't think it was referencing Jensen at all, but was pointing out it could have been. As word person and writer I found that framing amusing, more so because I didn't think that was the intention.

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.

@bob_zim@infosec.exchange @Lunaphied@provably.online @gsuberland@chaos.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange imo you should not be doing this test ON YOUR PRODUCTION KEYS.

@fediversereport @iftas

@laurenshof you outlined the reasons why, after falling for a couple of years in different alternatives (-> pleroma), I ended up picking mastodon for my personal server, and that is reliability, seriousness, development team and quick bugfix cycles.

Apple is perma-closing the Support Community site — https://discussions.apple.com/

This is gonna break every search engine result and every saved link on a web page or bookmark.

They likely fed all the existing content into a RAG or specially trained LLM.

I scraped the ~60 pages from the main entry point (it goes back ~5 days). The site was not exactly unused.

Way to go, Apple.

bdb

@publicvoit in meinem Fall war die Motivation, einem Hashtag möglichst vollständig zu folgen. Das geht anscheinend nur, wenn der Instanz Admin sowas wie #FediBuzz konfiguriert. @tomkalei

@RobW Thanks! Took my first dose of meds, fingers crossed. Not feeling so terrible I can’t talk at the moment but was getting worried at where this was headed.

Great conference thus far!

@Lunaphied @gsuberland @erincandescent @0xabad1dea This is exactly what their export-unwrap-wrap-import process was meant to address. They wanted to be sure they could port the key between devices and between vendors.

The problem was in the unwrap-wrap step.

False:

1. “Tankie” was coined by orthodox communists to describe and criticize party members who supported the Soviet Union’s use of military tanks to brutally crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. And, since you really love sources,

The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie 2. The Tiannamen Square protests are led by a vast majority of students. Reading the article you cited, it states: “…and are clear that the “protesters” (rioters) initiated the deadly violence in Beijing (none of which occurred in Tiananmen Square itself).” You can see that this mofo denies the massacre happening because it literally didn’t happen in the Square (true, but a non-sequitur). Secondly, that the protestors initiated the violence. The protests were peaceful, until the Chinese government declared martial law and ordered thousands of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops into Beijing. 3. Sure. The article is fucking misleading. Let’s assume it is right, and even then, your (3) is yet again a non-sequitur: because the protestors initiated the violence does not make the massacre justified.