I think there are multiple reasons, but one I want to highlight is Reddit's shift towards driving engagement at all costs.

I used the "new" Reddit for a while, and I noticed that more and more it was trying to recommend posts and communities to me. "Popular with users in your area," "Similar to another community you visited," "You visited this community before". A lot of the time, these would be posts and communities that I didn't like or want on my feed.

I would venture to guess that these recommendations are putting people into contact with communities they wouldn't normally seek out, and since they're not a member of that community (and may even be hostile towards it), you get more people breaking community norms or trolling or antagonizing people, etc...

This is epic level malicious compliance. Best way to run a SFW sub into the ground is opening it up to NSFW content.

Someone should make a site where everyone can post their shreds and we can see things like total karma burned or total comments shredded, or top shredded accounts.

If you want to avoid counting towards reddit's traffic, take a look at LibReddit / LibRedirect

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
https://libredirect.github.io

Yep, to me it really depends on the welfare of the animal donors and the circumstances around donation.

This is great. Until the Fediverse amasses more content, Reddit is still the best way to get answers from Google that aren't just SEO nonsense. Great way to still use Reddit results without using Reddit.

The IARC ruling [...] is intended to assess whether something is a potential hazard or not [... and] does not take into account how much of a product a person can safely consume.

From the article. ^^^

This is something people frequently overlook. A substance may be a "possible carcinogen" and also completely benign at levels any sane person would consume.

Bananas also contain carcinogenic material, but eating bananas is still very much a healthy thing to do. There's a reason banana equivalent dose is a concept, and "the dose makes the poison" is a common refrain in toxicology.

Really looking forward to Viewfinder and Cocoon.

I think it's going to be an expensive novelty for a while. I'll definitely be buying it on occasion, even if it is somewhat expensive. To me the cost is worth experiencing something that still feels like science fiction!

I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media "monopolies". Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.

From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they're not everything): People won't jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.

More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.

There's a snowball effect, and maybe one day we'll get out from under our rich social media overlords.

Can't imagine how Boost would survive when many more successful third-party apps are going under.

I use GitHub Desktop for 95% of my git needs, terminal for the other 5%

My account is being shredded as we speak. 1500 comments and counting.

Agreed. Gaming has become a lot more acceptable over time and with younger generations. This is also true for the gender gap in gamers, which factors into the dating scene.

SEO and propaganda / misinformation campaigns

Elden Ring again after taking a break from it for a while. Exploring new areas, it's fun.

Nutritional yeast is also amazing. Gives it a cheesy flavor, and it's healthy to boot!

I cook Jamie Oliver's "basic tarka dhal" all the time. It doesn't take that much time in my experience, and being a basic recipe it lends itself to lots of variations. Highly recommend.

https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/lentils-and-basic-tarka-dhal-recipe/

I prefer to airpop it in the microwave and then spritz EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) on afterwards. EVOO is delicious, and unrefined oils like EVOO retain more flavor if you don't heat them.

I have a bad sense of direction IRL but an excellent sense of direction in games. I don't think it necessarily transfers.

Oh, good idea! I hadn't used uBlock for manually blocking sites before.

There's also blocking/redirecting at the router level, although that's a bit more advanced and router-specific.

I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media "monopolies". Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.

From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they're not everything): People won't jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.

More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.

There's a snowball effect, and maybe one day we'll get it from under our rich social media overlords.

It sounds like YouTube is running experiments with small groups of users. You may not see anything until it's rolled out to everyone.

It's not just fentanyl. I remember a lot of news about the "opioid epidemic" before fentanyl was a story.

Is there anything like this for kbin?

So instead of 'up' and 'down', you have a clickable emoji-menu like list of tags like 'interesting', 'boring', 'funny', 'WTF!?', 'Quality', 'Trash', 'Educational', 'CAT', etc...

I'm not sure about this. How do you decide which qualities users can rate? How do you ensure those qualities work across instances with different languages / cultures? You're also taking something which is extremely low effort and making it take significantly more time and effort. I think the simplicity, universality, and low effort of upvote / downvote are all strengths.