Reddit was always shitty from when

• The only reason the jailbait sub came down was do to main stream media pressure - if you missed jailbait was a “SFW” sub for posting reveling photos of other people’s children to be gooned over. It was voted “Subreddit of the year” in 2008

• the mod who ran jailbait was an ICON on reddit for years and he also modded dozens of other equally questionable subs

• The insane redditor backlash to them banning FatPeopleHate sub - which for those who missed it was a sub dedicated to posting photos of overweight people without their knowledge so the internet could mock them. This was mostly made up of - yes you guessed it - mostly photos of fat women getting mocked.

• Leaving up the BeatingWomen sub that is specifically for posting videos of women getting beat up for 10+ more years after jailbait came down.

• leaving up the Creepshots sub, a sub dedicated to upskirt and down-shirt photos of unsuspecting women, for YEARS and only taking it down due to to it hitting the main stream news and forcing their hand. This sub was also modded by the Jailbait mod.

• the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES

• Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator on worldnews - I cannot back this claim up so I am removing it.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

@LucasWerkmeister

well, maybe cause you like the fediverse [this thing here] and want to support any fedi application or federate anything later.
The specs. are a relatively new outcome of the Social CG.

In my area there are several venues that have notes up saying they refuse to take AI-generated posters.

Three AI-generated posters were put up recently and all were quickly taken down. All three events returned later with posters designed by local artist/designers, with the person named on each poster.

All the events are run by people I know, who are nice and I'm sure meant no harm. But the action of refusal raised awareness and made them then hire artists. Call that a double-win!

#GenAI

the funniest thing digital circus did for me is ruin my perception of any other media that involves going into the computer. I'm always like "they're putting them in the digital circus", "when are we going to see caine", or claiming a character is going to "call dibs on getting to be gangle"

Same video on #Pertube #Spectra smaller file. Celebrating the ancient system of 8 seasons marked by solstices, equinoxes + cross-quarter days between. Vital to the agrarian ordering of the year with specific tasks slated for each date, for me these seasons are more about observing nature and the natural rhythms of the seasons + times for reflection and remembrance. In this one I think about Mārtiņš an ancient god whose true name has been lost. #Latvian #pagan #Canada
https://spectra.video/w/vVUG4YVLbaZN78YDqYiCyx

This time Dr. Pulaski can't stop dancing but the writers ran out of excuses for the crew to be involved in some other civilization’s bullshit

The most obvious, straightforward interpretation of the election results is that Republicans fucked everything up & alienated the vast bulk of the public with their weird, deviant behavior & so now everyone hates them.

Have any of the VSP pundits written that column yet?

Avian Intelligence Agents

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/078.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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.

Just like having buying and selling things is not necessarily capitalism, an organization that gets and spends money is not necessarily a company.

If you are using an iPhone and would like to contribute to OpenStreetMap in a very easy and gamified way: StreetComplete is now out for iOS!

Your contributions will not only improve CoMaps, but a whole range of OSM-based applications:

apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id6808344816

Right now, Custom Feeds in Bonfire have a number of ways to organize, aggregate, sort, and filter posts. Right now, post content filtering is limited to hashtags, but I wonder if we could instead allow people to filter by text strings? Not everybody in the Fediverse uses hashtags, but certain keywords like ActivityPub or Fediverse come up all the time in public conversations.

Thanks to this solider for having the testicular fortitude many members of congress lack.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/hegseth-reprimanded-guard-tomb-unknown-soldier

from today's stream:

https://vid.shadowkat.net/w/v86MYTc6eQNpjozYGbrTEF

wherein we waded into the depths of "edit mode" of the Tiny BASIC text editor.

currently the editor stands at 2.2KB in memory.

#livecoding #retrocomputing #permacomputing #solarpunk #basic #arduino

@incre_ment

Yeah that helps. I often do ~12 hours or a few days and different time of day

yes, of course, but it’s not a business model. Which means decisions aren’t driven by profit. The issue isn’t about money, it’s how/why it flows

In my area there are several venues that have notes up saying they refuse to take AI-generated posters.

Three AI-generated posters were put up recently and all were quickly taken down. All three events returned later with posters designed by local artist/designers, with the person named on each poster.

All the events are run by people I know, who are nice and I'm sure meant no harm. But the action of refusal raised awareness and made them then hire artists. Call that a double-win!

#GenAI

@dalias @torb what evidence do you have for them being bad-faith besides that you disagree with them?

They do ask for funding from time to time, though. It’s definitely not cost-less running a big website.