lvxferre

lvxferre, 11 months ago

It's a bit of an off-topic given the reason why you've linked that Reddit post, but I'm analysing a few things that the RR dev said and I've noticed something:

The decision is controversial even within Reddit Inc., and whoever is taking the shots is not explaining it fully even to the people interacting with the third party devs.

This hints that there's something really shady going on, like external intervention - but from whom?

lvxferre, 11 months ago

Ah, that explains it. A "middle caste" wouldn't bother explaining its decisions to the "grunts", even if the "grunts" would be better informed on the consequences of the decisions being taken.

This will backfire badly for Reddit - I predict that content creators and moderators will be specially affected by killing the third party apps. The platform will see a short-term increase of revenue, followed by a crash, as if they were killing and butchering a milk cow.

lvxferre, 11 months ago

Suggestion / request for people leaving Reddit: shred your content before deleting your account. Don't leave it in the platform, otherwise it'll just become more profits for the greedy fucks.

You can mass delete your comments in a safe way through Power Delete.

lvxferre, 11 months ago

That sounds a lot like a perverse albeit unintentional incentive to keep users relying on a platform that shouldn't be trusted. Give this a read, as Karl Voit explains it nicer than I can; I'd also like to highlight that any sort of info that you find in Reddit is highly unreliable, due to the excessive local leniency towards certain types of irrationality.

Also note that this is an easy issue to solve, from both sides. People looking for help can always look for it elsewhere; and people willing to help can migrate their content elsewhere.

lvxferre, 11 months ago

A trove of information plus noise and misinformation. If you ask any actual question - be it tech help or something else - expect most replies to be from:

• users who didn't understand your question on first place, no matter how simple and concisely you phrased it.
• users assuming context out of nowhere or disregarding the context that you've provided.
• users avoiding to reply to your question because they really, really want to boss you around on unrelated matters.
• users who are not informed on the question, do not know the answer for the question, but assume it and voice it as certainty.
• users circlejerking or voicing stale jokes based on some trivial detail in your question.

You might get an actual answer in this sea of misinfo and noise, but if you're looking for help there's a good chance that you don't know enough to sort it out. And the exact same deal applies to anyone looking at the others' questions looking for help.

Losing Reddit would legitimately make the internet a less usable, less helpful place. It’s a damn shame, but it’s true.

The truth is that, no matter what you do, you're going to lose it. Reddit is already going this way, no matter if you delete or don't delete your content, and no matter what happens in the alternatives (as this one). Because even misinfo and noise drive engagement up.

lvxferre, 11 months ago

A personal website is a great idea, specially if you have practical knowledge over a few connected topics.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I hope that ad blocking features are eventually seen as a killer feature, driving Firefox market shares up at the expense of "you can't even block a fucking ad!" Chrome-based browsers.

If that's gonna happen or not, I have no idea. It depends on how well each side plays its cards. The worst case scenario is Google boiling frogs (i.e. removing capabilities little by little) while Mozilla fails to advertise Firefox in this regard.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

I do. Mostly /a/, /ck/, /g/ and /vg/.

Yes, the place has been infested by Stormfront refugees, /pol/ is cancer central undergoing metastasis and spreading cancer everywhere, and /b/ managed to go from "this shithole was never good, but it's funny" to "this unfunny shit needs to improve to become a shithole". And the whole site has been redditised, so users there spend more time assuming words on the others' mouths than actually discussing the topic.

However, it's still a decent place to discuss random stuff. Your typical Anon is dumb as a brick, but at least not dumb as a snoo. Entitled whining leads you nowhere there so most entitled users either leave or stop whining. And there's still some sense of humour left, not touched by the alt right.

lvxferre, 1 year ago

RSS/Atom is comfy and does what I need it to do: it tells me when a page is updated.

lvxferre, 11 months ago

Surprisingly enough, given the extensive backstory of the botnet / Alphabet Inc. / Google being fucking arseholes, this is not the result of arsehole design. It’s just that websites don’t have access to your clipboard.

A few notes:

• Keyboard shortcuts still work as they’re a feature of the OS, not the browser.
• The botnet browser circumvents this by having its own clipboard.
• If I recall correctly, there are extensions for other browsers to allow copypaste from the menu. Don’t trust me on that, I don’t use Botnet Dox.