"the things that made Reddit Reddit years ago, before it turned into generic social media"
Bingo. From a financial standpoint reddit doesn't care about how it used to be. Being generic social media is worth more money to them
Which is good because phishing sites suck especially when they start hitting high up on google searches
Only thing which isn't great is the fragmentation of communities. For example having several different soccer communities, or several diff gaming ones, etc.
On reddit you go to /r/place and can place a pixel on a certain place on this huge canvas of like... idk 5000 * 5000 pixels wide? Its a huge canvas of pixels. So you and your friend or another subreddit can try team up and conquer part of the canvas, lets say the bottom right corner. And then you can all work together and create a little flag or another picture/image like this one. I am not sure on the limit of how many pixels each user can post per minute, or the exact number of pixels, but its roughly something like 5000-10000 pixels wide and high
EDIT: This image you see would be a tiny portion of the entire canvas. You can tell because the resolution of 'Spez' for example is pretty bad, which means its only a few pixels wide. If it was taking up the entire canvas it would be perfect resolution and you wouldnt see janky edges
This is an example of the entire canvas at some point over the past few days. Its probably actually something like 50000x50000 pixels
I used GPT4 the other day and it worked perfectly for calculating formulas of straight lines on linear-log plots but maybe I was the 2%
I know right wtf was that lol
I think it also fucked over all the top posts because they couldnt compete with the new algorithm?
Only thing that's annoying is certain niche communities are completely dead on lemmy
How long have you supported them? Im a bit of a band wagon fan as I only started following them this season lol. But I knew about the take over from ryan and rob back in 2020.
Yeah to be honest it probably doesnt matter all that much. Another point would be that theres several communities I would like that dont even exist on any instance so its not even a complaint yet lol
For anyone wondering, you can still use it on mobile by changing the address to old.reddit.com in your mobile browser. So its still accessible on all mobile devices, just not on www.reddit.com.
It can be useful asking it certain questions which are a bit complex. Like on a plot which has the y axis linear and x axis logarithmic, the equation of a straight line is a little bit complicated. Its in the form y = m*(log(x)) + b rather than on a linear-linear plot which is y = m*x+b
ChatGPT is able to calculate the correct equation of the line but it gets the answer wrong a few times... lol
Damn that sucks
I haven't ever participated in it but its just a canvas you can draw stuff on but requires lots of people cooperating together. Could be fun to do with friends I guess, like a common thing is drawing your countries flag with fellow countrymen
OK thanks. I am still a bit confused at how it works tho, if they did nuke the website, where would the data from the post and comments be stored
So you would still be able to see the posts and their comments on other servers?
Sync here (btw the creator of sync is making a new app for lemmy)
Thats the reason I am hesitating on deleting all my stuff.
Some of the tips I have given for tech support for stuff over the years, while pretty much only has been useful to a small number of people, will no longer be accessible. Anyone googling in the future or trawling through reddit threads trying to find an answer will be met by my answer and a guy replying "Thanks! That worked" but my comment would be deleted.
I know that would suck and would affect other users so im not sure I want to do it. Even if it meant helping one person
Yeah I never used RiF but dont think sync had that feature
If the fediverse gets really big, lets say the size of reddit, it may be hard for all the different instances to store all that data on their servers
My mam sends me them sometimes but shes just old lol
No i dont think he should be decapitated literally but maybe in the sense he would not be involved in Reddit anymore
Nothing is stopping me from burning my house down but what if the person who hosted this website / instance doesn't want to pay to host all the data anymore or manage it (or is that not how it works)
Oh oh oh , everywhere we go, watching wrexham fc, putting on a show
So lets say lemmy.world and then lets take beehaw.org (I know they are defederated lets assume they are not) for example. All the posts and comments which are hosted by lemmy.world on hard drives or servers, are also hosted by beehaw.org and vice versa? So the amount of data is actually doubled in size?
I have a feeling its too big to die to be honest
Do you think Marie antoinette shouldnt have been killed?
I've donated to wikipedia before because I feel its valuable to me for all the information it gives.
I might donate to lemmy if i feel its valuable to me for information or discussions