that’s an internet wide problem though.

I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

hearing that jensen huang has tripled the amount of partners he has in just under two weeks.

if these trends continue, i think we need to have a serious conversation about the possibility of jensen huang dating every women on earth.

even in moderate scenarios he may send up with 82% of all leather jackets

Javan hawk-eagle (Nisaetus bartelsi), a magnificent and critically endangered raptor. Exclusively found in the montane forests of the island of Java, Indonesia. #birds #nature #ecology #wildlife

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.

the S in SI is for stupid

So... if the board and several Nvidia employees have been talking to the Wall St. Journal, what kind of bad news could they be trying to get ahead of?

Now I'm curious. Because these kinds of revelations rarely happen in so coordinated a manner.

Was pitched Vocial - https://vocial.app/ - this morning: a social network that just uses voice.

Audioboo did something similar back in 2006 or so. I loved it - enough to be an advisor - but it never got to scale enough.

For Vocial, my advice would be…
a) base the social network on “the fediverse” - Mastodon etc
b) make Vocial a first-class fediverse client, so your friends are already there, so your posts already have an audience, and so you don’t have to actually run the entire social media network
c) make the Vocial app the place that’s optimised for voice: audio-first. The interface highlights posts made with voice (but still shows the rest). Posting voice is really easy with Vocial. Listening to it, too. But other Mastodon apps would also see the posts - just with their own clunky interface.

As a product, I think it has legs, perhaps - I suspect @evan may have views on how audio works here.

Okay, this guy is really good actually.

• 2026-01-27 17. Socialism for Conservatives, Free Markets for Socialists and the Tyranny of Property Rights
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Still watching the second video...

@jripley unfortunately we are not invoking clang we are invoking dotnet which invokes MSBuild which invokes a Bash (or on Windows, Batch) file which invokes CMake which invokes clang. So invoking clang directly is not useful because it is the chain of various build systems passing down configurations to other build systems we wish to debug.

It’s incredibly frustrating that FOMO apparently drives users …

Yes I think you’ve put your finger on it there. This obsession with being able to see EVERYTHING in some kind of omega feed.

Like I was showing a friend lemmy and he was like “how can I see ALL the communities [in the whole world]?” or “what if there are duplicate communities?”

He didn’t get that it’s GOOD that you don’t automatically connect to every single lemmy server, or that it’s actually fine if two servers have the “same” community. They’ll just end up being their own thing.

Hehe

We know…

Just amused by the juxtaposition, obviously they weren’t contradicting you (or replying to you). lol.

I’m easily amused. :)

We know… we were there.

Levels of undo:
C-x C-u
M-x revert-buffer
git reset --hard HEAD
git switch main
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

@davidgerard nice subtoot