Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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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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Did exercise while sick, oops 
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Banned from lemmy.ml for suggesting spam was Russia
Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.
I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.
Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.
Sooooo I got finally tested for respiratory allergies and it turns out that I am mega allergic to cats.
The maximum value not to be allergic is 0.34, and my value is 70.1, 200 times above. Arghhhhh
@tommi wow I didnt even know allergies had scales like that
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The liberal fantasy of reforming the #dotcons, ten years on
The working path of reform isn’t simply difficult because the platforms resist it, it’s structurally contradictory. The #dotcons make money by enclosing the social value that reformers want them to release. The liberal mistake is treating this as a problem of corporate…
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Still thinking about how tabs and bookmarks are basically the same thing, and how lots of other features are also the same thing
Did exercise while sick, oops
This isn't restricted to classicists either. I'm confident that most people who have a degree in japanese studies can not meaningfully read or speak japanese.
@lain a lot of people who have a degree in computer science cannot code
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Their rules are on their front page.
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this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.
I’m literally just responding to it. Thanks for the downvotes 🤡
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Rule 1 aka you can’t point out the moderators overt bias or conjecture as to why their bias exists.
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Ten years of tech activism have taught us something uncomfortable: #mainstreaming crew carries the assumptions of forty years of #neoliberalism and #postmodernism, dressed up as unquestionable "common sense".
That common sense narrows imagination by training people to see society through individual competition, personal identity and market logic, while making collective responsibility, solidarity and shared ownership harder to recognize.
Challenge these assumptions and the response is blinded defensiveness or hostility. The problem isn't simply resistance to new ideas, it's that the dominant culture has made alternatives difficult to see, discuss or organize around.
Prod too hard and they retreat into their shells like snails!
Our #openweb native path is to build the grassroots cultures and social structures that can mediate this mess. We need to challenge the assumptions without allowing every disagreement to collapse into personal conflict.
We aren't here to endlessly accommodate #mainstreaming common sense. We're here to create the space and collective confidence to move beyond it.
The task isn't to mainstream the alternative. It's to rebuild the native culture that makes alternatives possible.
Is there a website-making social club somewhere in the north of England where people can just hang out and update their website?
@Paul @anarodrigues I’m sure the Manchester WordPress User Group would welcome you, even if you’re not doing WordPress. Lovely bunch of folks. Look up @rhyswynne
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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OH: "The origin of Free Software was RMS having a tantrum about a printer."
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based on the history I've read of the fire ants war this strategy was terrible and didn't work well since it killed all arthropods. It didn't target the fire ants.
In reality it may not have been possible to stop them, and more productive to teach the public how to live with them and mitigate their spread.
But no one wants to hear that "lawns cause fire ants to spread"
@futurebird Ugh. It seems they used a since-banned insecticide called Mirex. Human carcinogen. Persistent in the environment and bioaccumulates in the food chain. Don't doubt I was exposed to this stuff as a kid (if nothing else while looking at those planes close up!). I vaguely recall my dad telling me not to touch them, but I can hardly be sure of that. (Wow. Just found pictures and some info on the planes I saw: https://www.aerovintage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4762 )
