A couple of things:
My employer spent the past ~10 years de-personalising our offices, and now they wonder why people don't like to hang out in their sterile 'clean' building.
Left because I was doing three jobs as one person. They couldn't hire a replacement with that job description (surprised Pikachu face). My new job wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be, so I got hired back in a properly defined job and that's been working out fine.
There are devices that will cool a drink (can of soda or a beer) to 'ice cold' ( I assume something like 5°) in 60 seconds. I guess this sort of answers your question? The full answer is probably not that it is technically impossible, but that the practical use is largely limited to drinks.
So it'll end up being a platform of trolls and bigots just screaming into the void and paying for the privilege. What a fabulous idea.
I was a premium subscriber, simply because I used Reddit a lot, I could financially bear it, and I generally liked how the place was run so I wanted to support them. Now I feel betrayed and my trust is violated, like when your friend borrows money off you and then never pays it back and just laughs in your face for being so naive. So I went from 'I love Reddit' to 'fuck Reddit' in about a month. Impressive achievement.
Mark Felton did a 6 episode series on YT on how the alleged burnt bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun found by the soviets, are actually plants.
Not that Hitler survived the war or anything, they were just buried elsewhere nearby, probably in a civilian mass grave, to prevent the soviets from parading the real bodies around.
Imagine being so douchey that, despite relying on free content and free moderation, you still whine about not being profitable being the users' fault and then you demand from moderators that they are basically available 24/7 to take your call. This is not just a dumpster fire, this is throwing canisters of gasoline into a dumpster fire.
I used to be a Reddit premium subscriber, because I used Reddit a lot and I wanted to support them. Silly me.
Because I like small diagrams and schematics. Doing that in an app, especially on a phone, is tricky. And I find that structuring my thoughts on paper just works better than doing it digitally straight away.
They also seem to think that continually spending money to do mundane things in a virtual world is not a problem for regular people who actually have to watch their spending.
Extra credit for being angry at your most loyal fans for 'using your platform for free'
The problem is that selling your data + targeted advertising is always going to be more lucrative than a subscription model. So even if you are willing to pay a subscription, it's usually only a matter of time before the social media company in question changes tack. Especially if they have shareholders and/or venture capital investors breathing down their necks. If you run it like Wikipedia is run, I'm pretty sure you can operate a social media company on subscriptions/donations, but as a business model that doesn't make sense as it is not the least effort way to make the most money.
De-escalate emotional tension. Don't get personal. Don't make sweeping statements or promises in the heat of the moment.
'People' in this respect are also the owners of media sites.
I'm also seeing a lot of this, and I don't think it's particularly positive news for Reddit. What made Reddit cool was the quirky stuff, which initially gave it traction. The bottom-up vibe of subreddits being created and managed by the community. These days, most of the Reddit audience is just there for the meme scrolling, they just want their content. They appreciate the moderation, sure, but for them it's just an obvious thing that happens. It's not that kind of users who make a platform like Reddit great. Sure, Reddit can reap the benefits of the environment they built for a while to come, but who's going to create new niche subreddits that feed into the more mainstream ones? Who will create quality original content? Who will moderate the hard-to-moderate subreddits for free, just because they care? Reddit is undervaluing its power users. If they're not careful, they will end up with an advertising platform with no users, or just a generic meme-rehasing-mill. Maybe they don't even care, as long as the money rolls in. I think YouTube is an interesting example of a money-driven platform that still walks the fine line of taking care of their content generators. Not always successfully, and there's a lot to be said against building your entire revenue on YouTube, but they do acknowledge where their appeal comes from. Reddit seems to think that people will keep flocking to them no matter what.
The larger danger is the erosion of kids' privacy. People are so panicked about all the dangers out there, and there are so many monitoring tools available to parents and educators, that it's no wonder that kids develop trust issues and/or are afraid to take up responsability.
I say this as a dad of two teenagers: the kids are allright. Love them, hug them, talk to them, show interest in their lives. Don't use surveillance as a substitute.
There’s a place in the world for Reddit too. It’s grown so hostile the past few years, like I’ve actually had anxiety from it, and I’m a perfectly rational person.
In my experience, this depends on the subreddit. The very big/popular ones tend to be the most toxic, whereas the more niche/nerdy ones are friendlier.
In these past few days, it did surprise me how many people just expect their free content and free moderation and don't even want to be slightly inconvenienced or show support.
If computer interaction benefited from being more 'like reality', then Microsoft Bob or any of the countless other attempts to create a reality- and/or 3D-based computer interface, would have caught on long ago.
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I can't even remember, (very) expensive food is wasted on me. I enjoy a quality meal, but the top tier stuff just doesn't make any exceptional or special impression with me. It's just good food.
Early 2000s Internet is like 90s Internet but with more bandwith and CSS.
A requirement to answer a message within the hour 24/7 seems very strict for a paid job, never mind a volunteer moderator doing this stuff for free.
We're not there yet, imho, but Reddit definitely feels like damaged goods, and the atmosphere has gotten toxic and polarized. So I think we're going to see a slow decline, unless they somehow get their community management back in order, but the recent comments by the CEO seem to suggest he sees the community as cattle, basically.
Taking the logic too far, I think. There is also a business interest in selling you storage and storage devices, it's not just Hollywood calling the shots.
Of course, in a totalitarian system (North Korea style) the ownership of storage media will probably be tightly regulated and controlled, but that's a wholly different scenario.
In the case of Reddit, apparently yes. By which they also spit in the face of their most loyal (paying) customers.
I run my own Mastodon instance, but for Lemmy it seemed more logical to join an existing instance that aligned with my interests. I wouldn't be adverse to abandoning my self-hosted Mastodon for a shared instance, but I would prefer a small instance run by and for people I know, rather than one of the huge ones.
Belgium. Debit card most of the time. Covid was a turning point, as it popularized QR codes and this in turn led to more payments by payment apps. I rarely ever carry cash anymore.
This. If you need anything more complex than that, there's nothing wrong with creating an organization.
I once racked up a ~€500 phone bill by dialing into US-based BBS'es. My parents were furious.
Yeah, but not models that are trained on data that raises copyright concerns, which is currently the case.
There are degrees of monitoring. This is basically my approach:
That is basically it. A lot of it is being around, available and approachable. It's not perfect, but it has several layers of protection, and is built around creating trust and teaching valuable media skills.
If I had to pick one, I'd say the 'no internet devices in bedrooms' would be the most valuable one. Because of that, I know what games my kids play, they can deconnect at night, and it's fairly easy to enforce.
I've been on Reddit for 13 years, and I'm hesitant to remove everything, in case I want to revisit some of my old posts/comments. Is there a way to archive your own content?
Definitely the former. The difference is not worth the price hike for me. I guess it's like with really high performance cars. I appreciate that a Ferrari f40 is in a league of its own and truly extraordinary, I just can't be bothered to spend that much money on it.
I guess it's the same with many things. The difference between low quality and high quality is really noticeable and usually comes with a substantial cost. But the difference in cost between high (even exceptional) quality and top-tier truly one-of-a-kind is usually very high, and not worth it for me.
Typora also supports it, it's a great low-overhead tool overall.
According to that logic, I'm doxxing myself every time I go to the supermarket.
Basically just the hastle of maintaining and hosting it. My ideal situation would be an instance with a few people, where we can share some of the burden, and perhaps cost. But maybe that has its own headaches when there is a falling out etc.
There are also other drawbacks with your own Mastodon instance in terms of discovering new people, as a lot of those tools are geared towards the server scope, and Mastodon prohibits a full index search.
I actually don't know what the Lemmy policy is on indexing, but a way to search the entire Fediverse (or at least large parts of it) would help tremendously in popularizing it, I think. I understand why indexing would be blocked, but that seems a lot like security by obscurity to me, which I don't think works very well.
This has been tried and tried again, and it never catches on. Computer interfaces that are completely detached from physical 3D space are just much more flexible and easy to use.
Sums it up nicely 👍
Huffman has recently made it clear that he wants to monetize user data, so I think that's a good reason to delete it, imho. I can still understand leaving it up as a courtesy to other users, but deleting all your content is a valid action imho.
Nornally first the capacitor and then the motor. The capacitor is there to absorb the power surge when the motor starts up.