Yeah I installed the official app because I have to use Reddit for political activism. The app sucks donkey balls. It’s genuinely confusing to try and navigate. It’s never clear where you are. The app SUCKS.
I socialize here now, I only go to Reddit if I have to.
I’ve found that Reddit’s website works on the Brave browser just fine due to its popup blocker blocking the “view this nonce in the app” popup. But, then you’re stuck posting through the mobile site, which, while fairly straightforward, also sucks.
Well the group doesn’t organize through Reddit, but we interact with all the internet sites, because people are on the internet.
I’m an unofficial volunteer for The Center for Election Science and right now their big thing is helping people switch their elections to Approval Voting. So basically I just keep an eye out for conversations and posts where election or representation reform is relevant and join the discussion.
If you wanna win hearts and minds, you gotta show up where the people are.
That being said, I’m on Lemmy because FUCK REDDIT and monetizing social interactions is gross and icky.
Yeah I feel that. I make the same argument for being on Instagram still. When you’re trying to get your voice out, you gotta where it’ll be heard.
This approval voting concept is interesting- seems similar to ranked-choice in terms of getting a quality result, but a different take on how to get there.
Pretty much every alternative voting system gets very similar results in practice. Most of the arguments between voting nerds are about what kind of things are more important. Approval people favor simplicity and scalability, RCV people favor individual voter expression. I could give you all the arguments about why approval is better, but we’re in the middle of a funding drive so I’m kinda burnt out on it.
If you have it installed and still can't find the place to rate it, (took me a couple minutes myself) search it on the play store and then tap on the logo or the words to the left of where it says "open" and you should find a spot to rate it on the new page.
His point about Reddit being late to the app game is precisely why I deleted all my comments except the one about navigating to Lemmy and deleted my account. I'm not sure if I'd have stuck around over 11 years ago if third parties didn't make Reddit apps. For me, they made Reddit. And now Reddit wants to force me to use their inferior app by running them out of business? Farewell, and thanks to Sync/Dawson for all the years of service to the community.
17 years. SEVENTEEN YEARS I spent on Reddit, through thick and thin. Gamergate, Ellen Pao, AMA collapse, the whole shebang. I never would have gotten through it if it weren't for Alien Blue and Apollo. But this shit? here? and now they're just nuking entire mod teams en masse? I left 19 days ago, and you know what I did? I joined a team developing an iOS app for Lemmy.
Nero can strum his lute and watch as Rome burns. I don't care, for I have better things to do and better places to be. I have found my new home.
Another long-timer. Would add to your list of apps that made it all tolerable BaconIt (Windows Phone, went through a phase). 3rd party apps ARE (sorry, WERE) the Reddit experience for millions of users. Huffman’s declarations are hubris. He may own the 2-monitor setups, cubicles, payroll and have keys to the building, but he is not the owner of the thoughts, feelings and ideas users forged into the site’s lifeblood. It’s not his to monetize.
I dunno, I quite like watching Rome burn. I've been away from Reddit for awhile, real life is far more entertaining and rewarding. I didn't think it would end with such a bang.
I have also been there 17 years and deleted my account and all my content (as far as the blackout allowed at least). This is on a whole other level than any reddit scandals I have seen before, especially in terms of doubling, triping, quadrupling,... down on it every time.
In a healthy marketplace, these would be fireable offenses. Regrettably, the marketplace is far from healthy — Microsoft has the government locked in as a customer, so the government’s options for forcing change at Microsoft are limited, at least in the short term.
And that’s why nothing will happen to MS, except maybe line go down a bit. But then line will go up again so it’s all good.
Kinda annoyed by articles like this making it sound like security wasn’t always an afterthought at MS though. It’s just that it’s even worse with everything being forced online to push SaaS revenue.
Them just quietly throwing the towel when it comes to Bitlocker getting circumvented on Windows 10 because the recovery partition is too small is only the tip of that shitberg.
As long as decision makers will flip their shit when they can’t have PowerPoint and Outlook the company will just keep on trucking’
@4am already explained most of it, Bitlocker comes into play because the recovery environment can be booted without needing to provide the recovery key for Bitlocker, the vulnerability that is being patched additionally allows bypassing the need to log into it.
That said, Microsoft frequently disables Bitlocker anyway to do OS updates, it really only works if you enable the additional pin feature.
Current Win11 update fails if the recovery partition doesn’t have enough space. Microsoft says it won’t fix the problem, users have to resize their own partition first.
That’s fine for nerds. Grandma doesn’t know what the fuck a hard disk even is.
(Edit: not sure what the bitlocker problem is in relation to this)
This is made worse by the fact that they made the recovery partition before the os partition instead of after, like it’s been for EVER. So now if you want to resize it you’re screwed.
What I don’t get is that there is not even a discussion about repercussions, regardless of what country is affected. The money paid annually to M$ would be sufficient to equip any government computer with Linux and develop Linux based variants for any special case software needed.
I mean I get why there is no change, their lobbyists are entrenched as hell, but there isn’t even a discussion!
Of course robots can’t steal jobs, they lack the capacity for thought and intention. Top execs are killing jobs because they would rather pay off a loan on a robot than the salary of an employee.
This happens with PowerDeleteSuite's main version, but one of the forks has a 5 sec pause between deletes that does work. It's very slow (~1000 comments edited in 2 hours), but works reliably. https://github.com/deestan/PowerDeleteSuite
This userscript will manually overwrite comments manually. You go to your comments page, scroll until there are no more comments to load, and run it. It'll go 1 by 1 - edit, new text entered, save, 3 sec pause. By default the replacement text is a link to the script, but you can just edit that to be whatever you want (and you should edit it to make it harder for Reddit to batch restore). https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468337-so-long-reddit-thanks-for-all-the-fish
Note 1: Method #2 doesn't use the API, so should still work on July 1. PDS does use the API, so might not.
Note 2: Both methods allow you to continue to use the browser in another tab or window (at least in Firefox). Some browsers and extensions will suspend or unload tabs if they haven't been viewed in a while, so best policy is to do this in a separate window.
Note 3: The default PowerDelete Suite should be fine for exclusively deleting comments if you run it several times. Just keep running it until nothing shows up under comments. To be sure, once your comments are all gone, wait an hour, and check again. If anything remains, use method #2.
(Overwriting account #7 right now! Using PDS with 5 sec pause has worked flawlessly.)
Yup, I could see Reddit noticing a large number of comment edits and bumping that timeout higher.
Also, many users probably don't know what forks are and might just run the first version of PDS they see, see that it isn't "working", and give up or wait for an update that never comes. The userscript is easier to understand because it visually performs the same actions a person would take to edit comments. And it's more fun to watch than PDS's progress bar. :)
“but the company, which is a stock racket that happens to sell cars, has operated at a level beyond rational analysis for years.” Actual laugh out loud at this statement!!
Microsoft has the government locked in as a customer, so the government’s options for forcing change at Microsoft are limited, at least in the short term.
Who would've guessed that a monopoly really sucks in a free market... oh yeah. Every single American citizen who also feels like they have 1 option of brand to buy from for 99% of purchases
Currently, Microsoft directs the vast majority of their security investments in revenue generating roles instead of internal security roles
This is understandable as they have an obligation to their shareholders to try to be profitable. Fixing things that are broken costs money and ignoring them while spending those resources elsewhere can make money.
I’m assuming Poe’s Law here and I laughed pretty hard.
Paying down tech debt is a huge part of providing shareholder value. Executives might mistakenly believe it’s not. At some point your customer experience degrades too much and people leave unless you’re balancing new functionality against paying down debt. Or, in this case, you’ve made a business model of never paying down debt and taken over the market while executing a flawless regulatory capture.
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