The same twitter that has gone in the shithole and is so bad that they're literally getting courts to order their eviction for not paying rent.

ya my immediate reaction was "wow, how tone deaf." It's pretty clear to me that this clown is just repackaging the same talking points the VCs are using to influence his weak-minded ass.

Agreed. they also know RES only works as long as old.reddit.com works, and once that's done, desktop is shit.

I mean I know there are bigger issues at play here, but can't help saying: Ewww...i forgot how gross it is when not using old.reddit.com.

Nope. I was a constant listener and eventually, a supporter. That stopped many years ago. They are not what they used to be.

good grief i hope not. Email & captcha are reasonable; a short form essay on why you should be graced with the ability to participate is super cringe.

I don't know about the rest of you, but even working a full time mid-career corporate job, I think I can make time for both. It doesn't have to be either-or.

fair but the issue has never been about charging for API usage, it's how much they're charging for it. Not sure if you're implying that a single app using the API should pay enough to double reddit's total API operating costs for all apps, but if so, that's pretty unreasonable.

meh, I don't mind it. Add the content you want to add. Scroll on past the content you don't want to read. It's not a big deal.

can't tell if that's flippant or just uninformed. Reddit data was a significant component of the development of most big name LLMs.

They are redirecting anyone - they are serving display ads that were intended for visibility within certain subs, to people who are viewing other subs or r/all.

so juicy, hats off to them.

stupid is as stupid does.

I get your point, but keeping it in the news and dialog outside of reddit is also good, and that is more likely to happen due to things going on inside of it.

lemmy may have growth pains, but I don't expect reddit exit to be a crash more than a slow burn.

I think what he meant was that means they're buying ads, not selling them.

Brand safety as an idea isn't dangerous, and there's an entire sub-industry in the adTech space devoted to it. The bottom line is most companies don't want their ads showing up on sites or in close proximity to certain types of content (illegal, political, hate speech, etc.). Services from these companies are used to make sure when doing ads on the open web, your DSP doesn't inadvertently put your ads in places like that. One example: https://integralads.com/solutions/brand-safety-suitability/

I've been doing this too, but, why do they show up in the first place if I'm not subscribed to them?

Sure, but shouldn't we also need to subscribe to communities/mags from these instances? I know i see lots from .de domains in my feed, but I am not subscribed to any of the communities/mags on the instances those posts originate from.

I welcome our new John Overlord.

been fully remote since 2008. It was fun to watch everyone else learn how to do that :)