I agree with your parenthetical strongly enough to rule out a typo.
This announcement lists things that Reddit will humor, for now, and as a way of cheaply outsourcing niche and difficult problems. It clarifies that everyday third party apps were never intended to have a future with the platform. They're simply an obstacle for Reddit's most convincing path to revenue.
I might even have forgiven Reddit if it had said so up front, but the story they've been trying to spin – with prices that just happen to be orders of magnitude in excess of anything devs might afford – is outrageously insulting. I've never had my trust in a brand demolished so thoroughly so quickly.
It's a fascinating idea, but it's reading a lot into a small effect on a very small study group.
The authors also don't seem to dwell much on the effect that novelty itself has on study outcomes. This is a common problem with A/B testing: introducing any divergence from what's familiar can draw participants' attention and affect outcomes. "Like" and "Dislike" buttons are familiar for anyone who's spent time on the internet, but "Trust" and "Distrust" buttons are novel and will be treated more carefully. If they were used widely then we'd eventually develop a kind of banner blindness to the language, and their effect on discernment would be further weakened.
This approach could also overindex comments that express risk and uncertainty. Well-worded concerns and calls for "further study" are a time-honored way of disrupting progress (never forget the Simple Sabotage Field Manual) but often sound trustworthy.
As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …
Absolutely. The details do seem to surprise people, but I think that's because they're often elided in euphemistic summaries and don't stand out in someone's profile history the way that trolling and right-wing invective often do.
It's not like they're all-caps yelling about gas ovens, they're just politely welcoming people into their instance and occasionally upvoting or suggesting that wellactually everything's fine in XinJiang and it's racist to believe Uyghurs who say otherwise, etc.
Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update (www.reddit.com)
Is there a Patreon/Ko-Fi/OpenCollective for Kbin?
What's the best way for us to chip in and help fund Kbin's development or the hosting costs for kbin.social?
Pakistan’s 4-day internet shutdown was the final straw for its tech workers (restofworld.org)
Pakistan is becoming a case study on how tech workers are impacted by political instability. Many now want out.
With iPadOS 17, Stage Manager Is (Finally) Moving in the Right Direction (www.macstories.net)
"Apple listened to feedback about Stage Manager and – at least so far – implemented the key improvements I wanted to see."
"Trust' and 'distrust' buttons -rather than 'like' and 'dislike' buttons- could reduce spread of misinformation on social media, experimental study suggests (web.archive.org)
Here's a brief summary, although you miss something if you don't read the study (trigger warning: stats):...
On Reddit and it’s federated rivals, Lemmy and kbin (www.jayeless.net)
As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …