They were actually told to get bent but not fired, which is even funnier. Imagine insulting and belittling a key department in your company but letting them continue to run things.
They were actually told to get bent but not fired, which is even funnier. Imagine insulting and belittling a key department in your company but letting them continue to run things.
This is probably the most realistic prediction of reddit's downfall I've read.
There was an article on here earlier that compared reddit to Digg, which I think is way off-base. Digg never had the mainstream userbase that reddit has, and the cause of the current migration from reddit is in no way comparable to what Digg did.
Here @JustinHanagan instead predicts reddit "dying" in the way that Facebook has. Which is kind of a surreal statement, as Facebook is still the largest and most popular social media platform in the world. But almost everyone agrees that Facebook is stagnant or in decline. The coolest and most creative people have left for other platforms. We only stay on there to hear about sales from La Senza and life updates from our racist uncle so we don't have to talk to him in person.
And that's a very plausible future for reddit. Think about all the unusual communities and concepts that make reddit what it is. Love these or hate these, it's the place that brought us AMAs, reddit secret Santa, AmITheAsshole, MildlyInteresting, BestofRedditorUpdates, AskHistorians, WallStreetBets, and so on. All of these were invented by users/moderators, not by reddit.
It's easy to imagine a future where those communities all continue in some fashion and reddit keeps its hundreds of millions of users, but the creatives and visionaries move on. Which means reddit's chances of being home to the next /r/PhotoshopBattles or /r/TodayILearned are hugely reduced.
Yeah, I wish people would stop spreading this lie, especially when the truth is no better: As reddit's admins, spez and the others explicitly oversaw, tolerated and defended r/jailbait and every subreddit like it on the site, for a period of multiple years.
Are tech/privacy enthusiasts known for being super into Wednesdays?
I'd expect them to be... I don't know, complaining about Prime Day sales today. Or taking about something remotely interesting. And I bet they are, but Mastodon isn't finding it.
I get where they're coming from, kind of. If they're going to make another move in the future, they need to still be moderators of the subreddit or no one will pay attention.
But they need to realize that 99.9% of people will only hear about their actions, not their reasons. And their action has been to surrender to the admins' demands and return to normal operations. They've contributed to the growing narrative that the protest has failed, which puts more pressure on the remaining holdouts to fold.
A couple news stories of moderators of prominent subreddits being forcibly removed by reddit would have been a thousand times more effective than these vague promises of future actions that might never happen.
Probably imported, but that doesn't make them less real. The ease of transferring accounts will be a major advantage for this platform.
To what end? This was embarrassing for everyone involved.
Reddit was not going to change its mind.
Honestly, I thought they might. Not to cancel the API fees entirely like some wanted, but to reach a compromise with developers that would increase Reddit's revenue and let the apps stay in business.
But it's become clear since then that killing the third party apps isn't an accident or side effect, but the explicit intention of the API changes. Now I can't see Reddit compromising as long as spez is in charge.
I still have a dim hope it could happen. The protests aren't over and Reddit is feeling it.
I don't understand the timeline. It's been reported elsewhere that the tourism company didn't report the submarine's disappearance for eight hours. This article says "The Navy began listening for the Titan almost as soon as the sub lost communications."
Did the crew sit there trapped for eight+ hours and then the sub imploded? I thought any hull failure would happen a lot faster than that.
Or is this article confused? It would make sense that the navy is always listening, and deduced what they'd heard after they learned of the disappearance.
I read an analysis of scenarios for the sub, and the best case is that they had a power failure but managed to surface. This is plausible because if something went wrong they would just need to drop their weights and float up naturally.
In that case, they're floating somewhere on the surface without communications and just need to be spotted.
But even that isn't a good situation because the ocean is ginormous and the sub is locked from the outside, so they're still limited to another day and a half of air supply.
If they're alive but under the surface, the search is nearly hopeless.
I joined the site today and it is pushing unsolicited furry porn at me on every page.
There's probably a way I can opt out of this shit, but that is not good enough if we want normal human beings to join this place. NSFW stuff needs to be properly tagged and invisible by default.
I can't use the site in this state in any public setting and I certainly can't recommend others make the migration.
Processed cheese is highly meltable. To maintain the shape in the picture, wouldn't the middle of the cheese stack have to be cold?
Is there a way to go directly from the feed to a submitted link? It's probably obvious, but anywhere I click on a submission seems to take me to the comments page instead of the external link.
When we make comments, we start with zero upvotes instead of the one pity self-upvote on reddit. I notice you can upvote your own comments though. Does this do anything?
I've seen that number floated around and am also skeptical. But if it's accurate, Reddit should just... do it. Full control of their site of hundreds of millions of users for the payroll of a medium sized business? They'd be stupid not to.
And honestly, I wouldn't even be mad. Paying their mods would effectively pop the balloon of my moral outrage.
You want to deny your employees the tools they need to do their jobs? Fine, it's your productivity that will suffer, no one else's. You want to rule the site with an iron fist? At least you're not being huge hypocrites and pretending it's community-run.
Agreed, and the fact that the hateful parent comment is still sitting at the top of the thread also makes me concerned for kbin's ranking algorithm.
At the moment it has 28 "upvotes" and 51 "downvotes," which on reddit would have it buried and hidden at the bottom. Here it's remained the top comment since the article was posted.
Possibly because it has three "boosts"? I don't understand the difference between boosts and votes. But this site is going to have to do something about it, because normal people are going to run from this place if this kind of sociopathic content is elevated here.