Everyone who cares about their instance and the fediverse as a whole needs to defederate and block their instances as soon as they pop up.

The 90-9-1 rule of internet communities applies though. If you're unfamiliar:

90% of people lurk, 9% interact, and 1% create content. Reddit has an additional 0.1% snuck in there of people who moderate.

If you're in that smaller echelon of users who interact or submit/create content, you're more than likely a user who these api changes affect. So the 90% doesn't really matter in the long run if you have no content, and the content that does come in is poorly moderated or not modded at all.

This kills the reddit.

I've played around with it for personal amusement, but the output is straight up garbage for my purposes. I'd never use it for work. Anyone entering proprietary company information into it should get a verbal shakedown by their company's information security officer, because anything you input automatically joins their training database, and you're exposing your company to liability when, not if, OpenAI suffers another data breach.

It's really wild that they straight up nuked CS:GO for this and it both performs worse on higher end machines (reports of stuttering when ragdolls activate or shaders load in are rampant) AND it's missing the casual war games modes like Arms Race.

Jan 6th literally was planned and executed on thedonald, which only got to the critical mass it did because reddit refused to handle it.

The major Star Trek subs all have. Started their own Lemmy instance (startrek.website) and have their private message directing folks over.

The site is being astroturfed by bots as well. So many FirstWordSecondWordBunchaNumbers comments that are all exactly the same trying to pin this on the mods.

Reddit has been caught astroturfing their site before, multiple times. It's just not been reported on because it usually doesn't happen in English, or happened when the site was small and young. Except for the admin moderated subs like r/programming. Seriously just go read the Controversial comments in those posts. It's blatant ChatGPT spam.

There are entire alternate language versions of big subreddits filled with nothing but reposts of popular old posts run through a translator. Comments section and all.

SubredditSimulator was fun as an experiment but it's clear they'll artificially prop their engagement and I really hope advertisers catch on. If you're a journalist in tech reading this, you've got a hell of a story to break about a top ten website fluffing up its stats for an illicit IPO grab.

Because it, as a massive problem instance for the alt-right to congregate, was allowed to build up and do whatever it wanted unfettered, once they did action it it was far too late. They immediately moved offsite to thedonald.win (which was r/thedonald 1:1), and continued their actions there. It allowed them to conglomerate, coordinate, and show each other that there was enough of them to try and pull off heinous shit.

I still cannot believe there is a game for kids that recommends they set up a fire hazard in their beds.

Meanwhile, Cedar is badmouthing you in a stickied post on the subreddit. I'm sorry you're dealing with this.

Because pleas for varying filters outside of NSFW have fallen on deaf ears for over a decade now. Just like every other accessibility feature.

Humans have an inherent right to be forgotten/right to erasure barring certain exceptions, such as celebrity or public office or notoriety. As such, you should be able to scrub as much of your data and comments as possible. It's definitely something that will need to be solved in federation eventually.

Consider they're a 30+ mile, hour+ drive away, this is giving me even less of a reason to go, and I happen to like Ikea. But free coffee isn't going to remotely make up for my gas mileage, so I guess I'll continue to shift my furniture needs elsewhere. =/

Came here to post this, Mint just got purchased by T-Mobile.

Alexis stepped back from leading the company in 2018, and down from Reddit's board in 2020.

Does he have a disease that forces him to lie at every opportunity?

I've always been enamored with flip phones because they're the closest thing we have to a Star Trek communicator, but the current gen of foldable screens are a nightmare.

Take your upvote and go.

Yes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.

Oh they're the same one who got the top mod removed from r/adviceanimals. Literally the type of mod that has the userbase riled up against the mods by their actions. Shame they run so many LGBTQIA+ communities, I wouldn't trust them to maintain a safe space.

A ton of the shit comes straight from the board of directors, who will no longer have a board because MS is absorbing and buying out all shareholders.

We know Bobby is leaving for a fact as well, as he has a buyout clause in his contract.

Short term, this is excision of a cancer from the industry. Long term this kind of consolidation is bad for competition. I'll be happy when MS gets inevitably trust busted.

This is a weird study, or at least article on the study. Basically, "over the counter stimulant still works as a stimulant," was their conclusion, which-- yeah? That's-- that's what stimulants do? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding it here.

If the study aims to get less people to misuse Adderall, great, but I don't know that recommending that folks take caffeine supplements (which are poorly regulated as both supplements and food additives) as a 'safe and effective alternative' is a good idea.

LOL That would be me bringing them into the federation LMAO

Definitely a problem that needs solved sooner rather than later, but I assume with a lot more eyes on ActivityPub now, people much smarter than I will have a solution.

a_knife is a powermod sitting on 35+ subs and squatting. He just removed all the other moderators as of 10mins ago.I'm sure reddit will rectify this immediately. /sarcasm

Since it's based around a show, Trek as a whole is in a show lull until Thursday. The folks who normally run the weekly content posts have already migrated over. There has been half a dozen attempts at replacing r/startrek with versions of it not run by that mod team and all have failed to gain traction, so good luck to anyone trying to do that. They run a tight ship and make it one of the more enjoyable subs on the site.

Trekkies have existed in groups in one form or another since Usenet and BBS. Moving to a new technology is nothing new to us.

That being said, 250 users in 1 day (they didnt get it set up and actually open until last night) is nothing to scoff at.

Edit: As of now (2am ET on Wednesday) they're at 800+ subscribers to the mainsub. That's-- not bad at all.

SubredditSimulator was a fun experiment by a random user with increasingly improving realism, training ChatGPT on real comments.

It also showed Reddit Inc you can fake engagement and community interaction with bots, which are now astroturfing the fuck out of the site.

They did! !daystrominstitute@startrek.website is Daystrom. !startrek@startrek.website is the mainsub, and !risa@startrek.website is the meme/shitpost sub!

That couldn't be further from the truth.

Considering you used "woke" as a pejorative earlier and now you're ranting about conspiracies involving Paramount (why would Paramount sanction a move to the fediverse where they can't show ads?) and supporting a sub that was about supporting anti-mask/anti-vaxx nonsense during the beginning of a global pandemic that's killed ~7 million people since 2020, I really am not even interested in furthering this discussion with you. LLAP 🖖

The issue is simply that, because of the unregulated nature of it, caffeine is working its way into tons of things one might not think to find it. From fruity drinks to candy bars to simple snacks. They're doing this because, as a stimulant, you feel 'good' from consuming it, and it has addictive properties.

But coming from so many sources, many of whom are putting dangerous levels of caffeine in their products (such as Panera Bread with their ~400mg of caffeine in a single large lemonade!! for comparison, a cup of coffee has only ~90mg) with little to no warning or labeling, is literally going to kill people from heart arrhythmia if they have undiagnosed issues or aren't given proper warning.

400mg is the upper limit of what a healthy adult should consume in a 4hr period. I can easily crush a Trenta Pink Drink from Starbucks in like, 25mins if I'm thirsty. But not all adults are healthy, in fact, most aren't. If you read my linked article, those drinks alone can cause caffeine toxicity in really short order. Especially for people using Panera to telework or study in a place with decent food, wifi, and free refills who just keep going back for more, unknowing of the danger they're putting themselves in.

It's insidious too, because while stimmed up on caffeine, they'll find they 'work better' when they're in a Panera, thus creating the wholly intentional feedback loop of wanting to work/study there more often.

Oh interesting, it's not showing as a link for me. I've edited. Thanks for the heads up!

It's worse than that, because the official app spams your phone with tracking requests. I know most apps do some tracking, but users with apps that track the trackers have reported as many as 500k requests in 24 hours.

This is not only an invasive breach of privacy from a link aggregator forum, but also straight up murders your battery life.

I just got a brand new Pixel 7a before this nonsense started. I installed the reddit app because Baconreader is like twelve years old and I'd figured I'd see if their official app had gotten any better since I last used it. It hadn't, of course, but I also noticed my brand new phone wasn't holding a charge at all. Like, 20% battery left at 5pm while I'm still at work and barely using it.

Reddit was using over 40% of my battery while fucking IDLE. I brought this up over there and a few other people looked at it. Someone reported it was using 60% of their iPhone's battery in the last week. It's repugnant.

Both can peacefully co-exist. There's a market for folks who like micro blogging and a market for deeper reddit style discussions. Them being able to talk to each other is a bonus.

Microsoft and Sega have a long partnership with gaming going back to the original XBox days where they got a ton of exclusives originally meant for the Dreamcast after it died. This news is the least surprising to me. Hell, theirbl OG controller is literally the DC controller with an added stick and no VMU support.

I read elsewhere that the r/rust community it looking into both moving to Lemmy, and dipping into the code to make it better, since it's coded in Rust.

It's possible your space isn't federated with those communities yet? You might need to start the link with searching for them using the !instance@web.site command to force your instance to download their pages first.

It's not the rules on those servers, but the rules on the server you belong to, i.e lemmy.world. Looking at their main site, their rule 3 is as follows:

It should be regulated.

💯 this. Pocketcasts is and has been outstanding for the years I've had it. Great UI, and will remember your position on a specific episode cross-platform.