I didn’t even think about it but now I see how confusing that would be!

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.

@SomeGadgetGuy If you want upstream to get it too, I made an issue there: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/1218

@fesshole You know full well what the worst that could happen was, asshole.

Maybe the responsibility of driving is not for you.

Oh house frames 😅. You mentioned picture frames then a framing hammer, and I was thinking a framing hammer must be small or the picture frame very large!

True and the thing that I wish I could literally scream into every rightwinger in America’s face is that the same is true for our current pedophile in chief

@davidgerard we should start our own prediction market

I got my badge and I am honored.

Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

Yeah. They brigade. Well known phenomemon on that instance.

Sounds about Lemmy.ml.

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/117588265643390842

This has long been my speculation, and often, when asked about GraphQL, I say, “It’s a Facebook-sized solution for a Facebook-sized problem, and it should never ever form your public API.”

Also, is a 2 day ban really worthy of an indignant post like this?

Yes. Why is this even a question when we all know it’s part of a bigger trend with that awful instance?

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@isntitvacant/117588007590928085

Fun, and true, fact, I once sat down with the inventor of GraphQL and after 30 minutes of him trying to explain the technical merits he finally came out with it: “GraphQL exists so Facebook frontend devs don’t have to talk to Facebook backend devs”.

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