@deepmud
"Came here, to shit on the roof."

Hotels stop lying to me about king bed availability challenge 2026 (impossible)

That and their banhappy atitude towards real users.

@xurizaemon Yeah this is a good argument actually. Where's the moral outrage on the support and often active participation in those other things? That should've been happening long ago.

Even if you block the ads and ignore them the site is so heavily botted with these bots pushing all sorts of products.

One of the most useful aspects of reddit used to be getting other perspectives on products you were interested in. This is no longer useful because of the massive networks of bot farms. You simply can no longer tell what’s real on that site and what isn’t.

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.

Experian. Data. Shameful and wrong.

Video: (must be a Bluesky user and logged in to see): https://bsky.app/profile/velshi.com/post/3mzwmxzgidi2i

@SRLevine @nolan “Oh yeah, I contracted for them once. They let me keep the jacket.”

Sources: Megaspeed founder Alice Huang has returned to her home country and is currently living in Beijing with the knowledge of security officials (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/alleged-chinese-spy-at-center-of-nvidia-firestorm-is-in-beijing
http://www.techmeme.com/261111/p50#a261111p50

@nixanadoo Speaking of - I actually have some banana pants somewhere in my closet 🍌👖

@colindean @DenOfEarth @BobHorowitz @ewen Then I was in Virginia with SNOW with my fat sports tyres. LOL that the first time it snowed I called Hubby at work to ask if it was safe to drive and one of his staff picked up the phone and there's a LOUD SNORT on the other end. Person tells me best not to let my husband hear that I asked this question. <g> It was a very light dusting and said person was from buffalo NY I learned later. :) :) :)

Yeah I’m not a huge fan of Mastodon throwing its weight around. Like I was setting up a snac2 server and I had to add so many extra endpoints to interface with Mastodon instances.

can't wait to spend $--- on --- shares of anthropic on the --- of november

Least this be misread as "leave the billionaire playboy alone": Fuck billionaires, excess wealth is poverty. they choose to not fix things.

@akkartik @jgamble That's the one in @mjd's post, thanks!