I don't understand why people don't pay for YouTube premium. Best streaming service I pay for. No ad blockers required. When I watch YouTube at someone else's house the ads drive me nuts.
If the Democratic party is so out of touch their members don't show up to vote in overwhelming numbers, a four time indicted criminal wins a second term.
About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service...
Fuck this is trash. DRM for the web. I wish people would understand websites like kbin are not free and that if you use a website you need to pay to keep it alive. But no one wants to pay for anything on the internet, and so we have ads. Ads will for sure kill the internet.
I am so lucky I was a dunce when it came to people skills when I was first entering the job market. I couldn't get a job at a grocery market. Always in the back running machines. Worked out pretty good actually.
Not only that, once reddit IPOs they are tied to wallstreet and must beat wallstreet quarterly estimates or else. They already had trouble turning a profit, they are going to pound the users with shit no one wants. That was already happening, but it's going to get worse.
Some rich people got put into a submersible where the glass hatch is bolted to the vehicle. The pilot then proceeds to turn on the Xbox controller to activate the vehicle. None of these rich people thought they should ask if the vehicle had and safety precautions, or perhaps a fucking steering wheel. The media has gone nuts over this story. Like "balloon boy" nuts.
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not...
Ugh. Nothing is sacred. Why does everyone want to get rich? We don't do anything for the public good anymore. I hope Jimmy can get an link aggregator up that is hopefully not for profit. I think that is the only way, it was only a matter of time before someone "OpenAI"'d the fediverse.
Digg tried to make money off it's communities ASAP and killed it. Reddit tried the slow burn: build up users for 15 years and then pull the rug. It's hard making money from a site that has all it's users do the work. The only value reddit has is automated infra, which in the days of auto scaling k8s clusters is not that unique.
These last three days have been a lot more calm for me. I think social media in great quantities is bad. The normies that will continue using reddit are the ones that probably use Instagram as well. I am definitely not one of those. So reddit making this change was its final gift to me after 15 years of teachable moments.
After reddit my needs from a social book marking website are simple:
Completely open source
Moderators can be recalled by the communities they mod.
Not for profit (ads are not the primary source of funding)
The internet needs to have something like reddit as core infrastructure. A digital public square. This requirement is incompatible with profit motive. This is why time and time again social media sites fail.
As an effect of the recent Reddit blackout, the company is now surrounded by disappointed investors and community. I predict that Reddit may end up facing the same fate as Tumblr: being sold to another company. Only time will tell what the future holds for Reddit, but one thing is for sure - the protest will leave a lasting...
I hope the mods resign in disgust and the spez gets scab mods just to make the situation more ridiculous. I am done with reddit. I like the idea behind kbin and the fediverse better, just hope this community can figure out infra better, as well as creating logins. Rather logins all be tied to all the instances, but maybe I am ignorant about it.
What is something that definitely should not exist?
We've come a long way baby (i.imgur.com)
What alternate Youtube frontends are there? And which ones do you recommend?
I’ve heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.
why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?
Statistic on the news said that 50% of the population there are under 18…
Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email (www.pcgamer.com)
But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.
Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House (www.theguardian.com)
Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’
Its been an interesting morning (reddthat.com)
It was to talk about “team restructuring”
Disney Doubles Down on Florida Litigation Against Ron DeSantis’ Board as Governor Signals White Flag (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
For the first time, Disney is seeking damages in the state court case initiated by the governor's handpicked oversight board....
He has risen. (lemmy.world)
Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service...
Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium (github.com)
Retail (lemmy.world)
Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights (www.lgbtqnation.com)
One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter's birth certificate....
Instagram's Threads: 'Almost every influencer will be hopping on it' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Some of the people using Threads on its first day tell the BBC what they think about the app and its future.
As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)
Rich Lives matter
https://libranet.de/photos/fu/image/16529189146493c9f10e6b5800201036...
Reddit confirms BlackCat ransomware gang stole its data (www.theregister.com)
Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days?
Since news leaked out 2 days ago that Facebook has approached Mastodon developers and admins - requiring non-disclosure agreements first - the whole microverse (i.e. mastodon / pleroma etc, the micro-blogging part of fedi) has been talking about nothing but that and Facebook's imminent entry into the fediverse with an as yet not...
Reddit and the End of Online ‘Community’ (nymag.com)
A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.
Is this what happened to Digg?
I'm way too young to remember Digg. I signed up for Reddit in 2015, and I've heard talks here and there about the migration from Digg, but that's it.
Reddit threatens replacing moderators from privated subreddits, citing vandalism and squatting.
A few thoughts about the blackout and the future development of the Fediverse.
It started as an answer to a comment, but then I figured it might be worth a post on it's own....
So what corners have redditors gathered to during the blackout?
Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes... I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I'm missing?...
The Future of Reddit after the Blackout
As an effect of the recent Reddit blackout, the company is now surrounded by disappointed investors and community. I predict that Reddit may end up facing the same fate as Tumblr: being sold to another company. Only time will tell what the future holds for Reddit, but one thing is for sure - the protest will leave a lasting...
Yikes! Reddit turning off mobile access to reddit.