Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday criticized Meta for blocking domestic news from its platforms, saying the Facebook-parent was prioritizing profit over safety as devastating wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate their homes....
Canada shouldn't become a country where the government decides what we see, hear, and do. They already meddle in that too much, and blocking websites that aren't engaging in illegal activity is absurd. Will they block the Fediverse next?
All Meta is doing here is complying with the new law. The government said "pay to link to news sites or stop linking to them" and that's exactly what Meta is doing. It's another stupid law pushed by corporate Canada for their own benefit, and now they're surprised at the most obvious outcome.
It's at a gay bar, but it's also an official employee event, which is weird. I wonder what the expectations are for employees to attend official events. For me, whether it's a drag show or bowling, I don't attend most after-hours work events.
Google is still sponsoring the event, it's just not an employee event anymore. That's probably how it should have been planned from the beginning.
That said, thin-skinned Christians can not attend if it's an optional event. The bible is silent about drag shows.
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
Huffman claims it's about things like LLM training that uses the API, as if it isn't possible to validate apps that want to use the API and only issue keys for approved apps. This could save third party apps while preventing bad actors from gaining access to the data without scraping the site.
No, if bad actors were the problem then the solution would be much different.
A better comparison is formerly popular social news/link aggregators such as Digg and StumbleUpon. Digg dominated just like Reddit for a while, and then it died when users flocked to Reddit after an unpopular change. The similarities are uncanny.
Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating...
In that nfl thread, is it an old mod or a new one who re-opened it? Reddit is replacing the mods who shut down their subreddits with people who will re-open them.
There was always a substantial number of people who didn't care about the API. They probably only used the official app and are newer Reddit users. They were also probably not around for other mass migrations, such as from Digg to Reddit, so they don't treat Reddit any different than Facebook, where they put up with whatever bad changes are made because they see it as the only option, as if it will always be the internet's main news aggregator.
Anyone who's been around for a long time knows that Internet communities are ephemeral, so what's really popular today won't be in 10 years. It's more than people moving from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit. Search engines used to aggregate news on their home page, and lots of people used RSS feeds or StumbleUpon. The history of the Internet is splashed with sites like Reddit, and every time one dies, another pops up that is more popular.
I'm amazed that Reddit has lasted as long as it has. Whether this is its death or not, I cannot tell, but it seems clear that its days of dominance are waning.
Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....
It's laughable that Huffman thinks people don't realize how much smaller Reddit is than Google or Facebook.
Most of what Huffman said here is about cost-cutting. If Reddit had 1800 employees before the layoffs, then yes, it's probably bloated and laying off another 800 employees probably wouldn't affect the end-user experience.
The problem remains that Huffman sees how users want to use Reddit as bad for the company. There doesn't seem to be any reason why Reddit couldn't have monetized their API through ads, making third party apps similarly profitable as their own app. And if their own app isn't profitable through ads, then what's their plan? Moving all those users to their first party app doesn't fix anything.
You should print one in TPU so it's soft, then put it in a glass container with a safe to handle liquid so it looks like a real brain preserved in formaldehyde. Then you can reach in and pull out the brain and ask who wants to hold it.
Hosting sfw video is just not profitable on the scale that youtube does it
Youtube had $28.8b in revenue in 2021. While revenue isn't profit, I can't imagine it's losing money with that much revenue. It'd be hard for someone else to duplicate it, but not impossible if they have a strong business plan from the start.
And this isn't even strictly true. Reddit could have given 3P apps the option to pay a reasonable price for the API, or they had to serve Reddit's ads to avoid paying the fee, it would be a fair compromise.
It sounds to me like Reddit can't profit from ads, even if the 3P apps served them. If that's true, Reddit is doomed, and investors will see that as they approach the IPO.
Canada considering foreign student visa cap to address housing shortage (www.reuters.com)
Meta putting profit ahead of safety by blocking wildfire news, says Trudeau (www.reuters.com)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday criticized Meta for blocking domestic news from its platforms, saying the Facebook-parent was prioritizing profit over safety as devastating wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate their homes....
Google distances itself from planned drag performance after employee petition (www.cnbc.com)
This is absolutely on brand. Can't trust these companies to do what's right.
There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data | John Naughton (www.theguardian.com)
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
I don't miss Reddit at all. (beehaw.org)
I've been really enjoying my time here lately and I have noticed things....
Did the reddit hivemind do a 180 or are the people left behind just the people who don't care.
Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they're calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating...
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....
I know this has been done before, but here's a 1:1 scale 3D print of my actual brain. The hospital that did my MRI let me have the files. (i.imgur.com)
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Phil Kessel claps back at Leafs media after winning third Stanley Cup | Offside (dailyhive.com)
"You guys said I couldn’t win"
Ripples Through Reddit as Advertisers Weather Moderators Strike (www.adweek.com)
Reddit is redirecting some impressions away from existing communities, and some advertisers are pausing campaigns.
Kbin Mobile App?
I'm new to Kbin, is there an official Android mobile app? If not is there a good alternative?