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.

@AFresh1 @kurtm

Obox: take ownership of our deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and observability stack $750/month
Netflix: use freebsd and use AI to learn about security $75,000/month

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"Did *you* ever get so laid there was a Congressional hearing?"

blart levels are currently at 02% but fluctuating wildly

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Hey everyone, please help me wish my beloved @gilahava704 a happy birthday by sending her your favorite Muppets pictures, clips, and quotes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwsmqZLCKPE

Hmm, interesting.

Was checking the enormous amount of binaries that come in the jdk distribution nowadays and one there is immediately useful:

jwebserver | Mini server | Static file server for local testing

serves the current folder, zero conf.

@samuelpepys Married life...

@nothacking @davidgerard @bigiain Sorry, not sorry. I had to. Here's a handy private key to go with it (this is a valid key, hence the messy bits where the ASN.1 structure requires things like the header for each sequence specifying the modulus, exponent, etc)

Alt text contains the key as ASCII as well

絵文字の使い方含め
こういうので笑えるから
やっぱioが好きだよ

村上さんとしゅいろママに
石油王が
してくれますように

@jaredwhite just ask claude to slopcode a bulk exporter for you *runs*

I realized Vivaldi has a built-in RSS reader and I'm like, cool, I can start following RSS feeds again! Then I realized I forgot all the websites I used to have on my old reader. Metafilter? Is that still a thing?

My deal for AI slop taking all our jobs is universal basic income and medicare for all.

If I don't have to make money to eat, or have a place to live, or for medicine, then fine. Steal all my shit because then I can spend my time making art and giving it away to people.

I think Pylova (a soft-fork of Piefed) is at the forefront of moderation tools in the threadiverse.

I think their recent addition of shareable user-subscribable block-lists is a good direction to go. I think this can be expanded to instance-level subscribable block-lists. There could be a variety of lists (CSAM, scrappers, scammers, agentics, etc.) and each instance chooses what list(s) to subscribe to or build their own for others to subscribe and contribute to. The lists would be easily fork-able so that any instance can take control of their own moderation, if they disagreed with an addition/subtraction to a list.

For some lists (like scrappers), I think automatic addition could be set up to quickly “inoculate” the rest of the threadiverse against them. Perhaps one approach could be any IP that clicks on a non-user clickable link or gets stuck(?) in Anubis could be added.

I think subscribable block-lists for instance admins could be a great way to protect the threadiverse (perhaps expanded to the fediverse as a whole or just any website in general) against any problematic actors quickly and at the first encounter (alternatively: after (x) # or % of instance admins add them to a list).

Apparently some of these lists may already exist in some form (@Christopher@lemmy.grey.fail: “I was able to implement community maintained blocklists."). So, my thought would be to make sure these lists are a standard format (if they aren’t already) that instances can auto retrieve and contribute to.

Anyone: let me know if you have any thoughts or see any issues with the idea (constructive criticism only, please).

B.C. storm delays search for missing canoeist
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Wearable sleep trackers are using your brainwaves to train AI models without explicit user consent — tens of millions of hours of EEG data harvested

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/wearable-sleep-trackers-are-using-your-brainwaves-to-train-ai-models-without-explicit-user-consent-tens-of-millions-of-hours-of-eeg-data-harvested

#Interaxon #Emotiv #privacy #surveillance #AI #dystopia #enshittification #technology #wearables

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BECAUSE THEY'RE SPIES! THEY'RE BEING SNEAKY!

@david @sarae @flyingsaceur @ai6yr FWIW, this ongoing discussion of toilet installation inspired today's curse on Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, which I've been posting daily since January: https://c.im/@msbellows/117593128846449795

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