Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps....
Checks out tbh. Around 90% of the web’s overall traffic is viewed from tablets and mobile devices. Having a good mobile/app experience is essential for user traffic - how many of us are on the web while in bed, on the toilet, eating breakfast, half-watching TV, on break at work, etc…?
Definitely. I’m much more likely to comment when I’m not prepared for 70% of the readers to interpret what I write the worst possible way on purpose lol.
It’ll be a scale thing, though. For one, most instances have a human-manned review process. And for two, we have low enough users that communities don’t homogenise into echo chambers as easily. This will change as any particular instance (or Lemmy’s federated instances) gain more users.
I still have a photo on my phone of a Countdown sign saying ‘you cam help us reduce platic’ next to an entire bin of countdown-branded plastic punnets of tomatoes
…found the pic it actually says plastic bags I remembered it wrong but still
Already seen some screenshots from people trying to reddit in their mobile browser, despite being logged in. Their popup had the classic ‘View in App’, but the ‘Continue in browser’ was replaced with ‘Take me outta here’ or something to that effect, and would take them to the previous page in their browser.
I can appreciate this distinction on NSFW content without a logged in user, because of concerns with age verification. But it seems some users were part of a selected testing group to migrate users into the app almost completely.
Considering that Firefox browser can block ads on reddit (and that browser reddit still runs better than app reddit) there’s definitely pressure for Reddit to drive users to their app with a stick. They certainly don’t offer carrots.
By necessity, so that Reddit wouldn’t have been obliged to intervene and close the community.
I considered the r/Piracy sub a ‘gateway’ - it didn’t overtly provide pirated content, but it made the pirated content safer and more accessible for people who weren’t already familiar with it, or updated us on news for platforms going down or changing hosts. It made piracy accessible.
Of course accessibility means bringing in low-effort users, lurkers, and those who make choices out of comfort/convenience over principle, but it still provided a service.
The more ad-riddled they make the platform to try and monetise users, the more they make adblocks necessary to even be usable.
I didn’t use to both with adblockers. I didn’t like ads, but they didn’t affect me enough for me to go through any effort blocking them.
Now I use blockers everywhere, on every platform. Even for creators I like, because I know how little they actually make for ads - so how bout instead of watching 12 hours of ads so they can get 2c, I just send them a dollar or buy their merch every once in a while to not watch ads at all? Etc.
Ads could have had a place. There are ads that serve a purpose, that have minimal disruption but still give businesses a way to develop awareness for those who might want to use them.
Movie trailers (including when they stopped trailing movies and started leading them) are examples of ‘acceptable ads’ to me. When I purchase something from a store and they include a printed card from their sponsor. When sports teams have logos for being sponsored. A work van with the business logo parked while out on call. Etc.
But the internet’s online ads? Email spam? Telemarketing? These are forms of advertising that are actively hostile, and they’ve become the default. So now a user that wants to be on the internet at all is best served by block all ads, including the ones that would’ve otherwise been reasonable.
Google will never make me feel guilty for blocking ads when they’re already making their search engine unusable, too.
It’s feasible that there are other variables that have been missed, but essentially this works. The server asks us a question, and we answer it. We just skip the bit where we provide evidence.
It’s like looking up the answers in the back of the textbook on a test. The only thing the server sees is the paper we’re handing in, it has no idea if we cheated or not.
Boring technical explanation:
For a server (in this case, YouTube) to see what a client (your computer) is doing, it has to reach out and ask it. When a request is made, the two points will ‘handshake’ to confirm that they heard the request, then when they’ve done it. It looks something like this:
Client to server: are you prepared?
Server to client. Yes, I am prepared. (503 if failure)
Acknowledge. Client requests [data].
Request received.
(Server processes request.)
Server to client. Are you prepared for response?
Yes, I am prepared.
Acknowledge. Response sent.
Response received. Close connection.
Connection closed.
These steps can be repeated any number of times in response to a single user mouseclick, depending on what you’re trying to do. A ‘request timeout’ error is what happens if client/server asks “are you prepared?” and it takes too long for the server/client to answer “yes, I am”, so you hang up the phone.
For the server to treat clients differently at all, it needs to contact them for feedback. For adblocking, it has to ask your client if you’re adblocking. Usually the server does this by sending the client a request to serve an ad - if your client never answers back to confirm it was loaded, then the server knows you blocked the ad. The devs can tell the server that if it doesn’t get a certain answer, to enable the punishment effects. (They’ll technically be sent anyway; they’re just hidden/disabled by default if your client handshakes the ad.)
What these scripts do is lie to the server. The server asks the client if we received the ad, we ignore the script that checks whether the ad is loaded and instead directly change the answer to claim it has. Since all the server sees is the confirmation, it doesn’t know the difference.
Good! The only role of good ‘karma’ should only have ever been about content quality and therefore content visibility. Content of bad quality can be reported or blocked.
Ranking a user’s value based essentially ‘how long they’ve been here’ isn’t meaningful. Even giving users a score based on their average votes would still prioritise groupthink and homogeny.
The API charges are only when an Auth key is used over a certain threshold. Most bots are going to be fine, it’s just the few of them that were operating above that threshold.
3rd party apps are being killed because they use their own API Auth key for essentially everybody. One considered solution was having each user generate their own key and input it, but when a dev asked admins about that, they said it wasn’t allowed.
DLCs are just skins for armour and guns. They are considered optional ways to 'donate'/support further development, and the devs thank you by giving you a few custom items, and making your name gold in chat so other players know you're a supporter. That's it.
Not only is there is no gameplay locked to DLCs, by far almost all the cosmetics are completely free, and always in-game. Battlepasses are free, and unearned cosmetics go into the loot pool for free. Hundreds of cosmetics to craft for free, hundreds upon hundreds that drop from mission chests.
Did you know the Neanderthals were arguably more cultured, social, and collaborative than our Human ancestors? Yes the Neanderthals aren’t our direct ancestors; they were another competing hominid. Humans killed them - but they also outbred them, including by breeding with them.
Humans are social creatures; the largest federated instances grow far faster than the smaller ones. Not just in absolute number, but in percentages. And Capitalism doesn’t want competition in a free market; it wants a monopoly as quickly as possible. Any time a platform represents a threat to Meta’s user-share, it buys it (Instagram, WhatsApp), and if it can’t, it copies it (TikTok > Reels).
If a known name of a private umbrella like Meta/Facebook, Alphabet/Google, or Microsoft enters the fediverse, the following is likely to happen:
The fediverse gains notoriety, desirability and attention as private platforms enshittify.
It grows until this represents a threat to private platforms losing users to the fediverse.
[Meta]'s private users enter the fediverse via [Meta]'s instances; they’re sponsored, accessible, visible or incentivised; they appear to have the lowest barrier for entry; they may integrate with the platforms they’re still using.
New users in the fediverse in general likely join [Meta]'s instances; they’re large, and where their families and friends are; they promise to be stable and have legal oversight; less likely to blackout from server error or admin corruption.
[Meta] slowly collects the majority of users in the fediverse.
[Meta] reaches a point of having >80% of the fediverse users anyway, and ceases the funding and technical support for federation and gateways, defederating and becoming a high-walled garden.
Other fediverse members are pressured by their colleagues, family/friends etc to make a [Meta] account so they can maintain contact. They won’t leave [Meta] because they’d lose contact with anybody staying.
Other fediverse instances are forgotten as their users are pressured back onto private platforms.
[Meta] has successfully gained an effective monopoly over the fediverse.
[Meta]'s fediverse enshittifies.
TLDR: I think the Fedipact (or something like it) is necessary for the fediverse to ever become what we hope it one day can be. To allow self-interested private entities to stack territory in it will eventually see it consumed.
Daily Lemmy comments up from ~7m to ~11m following the launch of Sync? (lemmy.world)
Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps....
Is it just me or did anyone else became a more avid poster since joining lemmy?
On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
FFS Countdown (lemmy.nz)
Plastic upon plastic…
Elon doesn't want you browsing Twitter
You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don’t get in the #Titan ?...
Why Lemmy's Piracy Community Outshines r/Piracy?
r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I’ve never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?
**this seems to be the theme of the season mateys** (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
Oh dear (lemmy.ca)
Minecraft is leaving Reddit
Which to buy? Steam question
When I go on to Steam there's a heap of different versions of DRG: vanilla, Dwarven Legacy, Master Edition, Deluxe Edition....
What do we think of the Fedipact? (fedipact.online)
It's a pact to block Meta (as in Facebook) run instances if they appear. Obviously up to @Dave to sign, but wondering what people think