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.

when people say they can't wait to play block game and i respond with "me too" i'm not being flippant. i can legitimately not wait for block game to be far enough along that it's truly playable because *i really want to play it* and get lost in that world

This survey on "AI" and illustration from the Association of Illustrators makes for grim reading

https://theaoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-AI-Survey-Analysis.pdf (PDF!)

> A year ago, almost a third of illustrators told the AOI they had already lost work because a client chose generative AI instead.
>
> This year, that figure is 46%.

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6eztzifK0 who apparently found it via https://www.thebookseller.com/news/rise-in-number-of-illustrators-losing-work-to-genai-survey-finds

First

This.

Adding to my regs review of my services and stuffs:

Fedi, pick ur favs:

Streaming Music
Contacts
Weather
Masto Client
Fedi System (Masto, Sharkey, blah blah)
Indie Shopping
App Store

#fedi #corpo

@davidgerard
The AI Studio Ghibli thumbnail btw

@cwebber @tusharhero easy for some to say 😪

Hn. So, don't go extra just fill in ur alts:

Protonmail
ProtonVPN
ProtonDrive
Signal
Android
DuckDuckGo
Google Maps
LibreOffice

If they are no AI, u get bonus!

This album is fantastic! #ccmusic

https://thisissoundofthevoid.bandcamp.com/album/underpass

@ai6yr I definitely don't know anyone who's ever done this with a US military aircraft

@tiefling@bardicperspiration.club

Protonmail >TutaMail
ProtonVPN > wireguard into home network(not for location masking I guess)
ProtonDrive > self hosted nextcloud
Signal › Signal
Android > GrapheneOS
DuckDuckGo > self hosted searXNG
Google Maps > no good replacement for finding nearby businesses
LibreOffice > ObsidianMD(markdown docs and limited tables only)

$NEST (Nestlé) +0.93 739.72 #TrendingNow #BTSE

@gfxstrand ohh I think the "Device / Context" moves into the right direction.

I think the former can be something expressing the Device (doesn't even have to be a GPU) and the latter just the logical execution environment. Maybe some would even call it "queue" or so...

but then we have vulkan queues which are more like device subunits, so I guess context is fine.

Yeah.. I think that one is a good scheme in principle from an abstraction pov, but might want to ponder more on the precise terms.

Be the change you want to see. Reddit Secret Santa was always a pretty big logistical undertaking, it would take effort to make a Fediverse one.

Also Fediverse users might be less keen on the idea generally, as it involves personal information and addresses. A very cynical take is that harvesting this data was the real purpose of the Reddit SS, which can’t really be ruled out.

I’d get you a really nice can of beans.

This community is not for complaining about bans or mod action on other instances.

Locked.