Even worse, their official app uses the same API -- and, by estimates, the Reddit app uses more calls than Apollo does.

They wanted more per user than they will ever make. A multiple of that, in fact.

To some extent, Reddit does get a slice - in the form of user engagement. User engagement is how they generate ad impressions, even if it's not from the users on the third party apps.

They COULD have simply put ads into the API, or made it a requirement. They didn't.

Their entire goal is to maximize "value" before their IPO. Control and number inflation. They don't care about the long term. Spez wants to cash out, and he doesn't care what it costs the company.

Do you want Reavers? Because this is how you get gorram Reavers.

The bulk of heavy users are on third party apps, most likely.

"Taking over" is the wrong tense and the wrong interpretation. With very few exceptions, charter schools have been a Christian nationalist ploy nearly from the beginning.

Knowing what I know about the costs of streaming video, I really want to know what the alternative is for a platform that can't just throw money down the drain. To my mind, there are only two options here - people watch ads (within reason, but 2 hour ads aren't resonable), or people pay YouTube (a la Premium).

If you want things for free, the only way to make that happen sustainably is ads right now. Donations simply will not work, especially for something with the costs that video incurs - to say nothing about being able to compensate creators for their time and effort.

Not just this, it's AH. Not... terrible, but super hype-y from what I've seen.

There's a portion of the EA movement that uses their beliefs to justify whatever it takes to make as much money as possible so they can donate more. SBF was in this camp, for example.

It's modern-day secular indulgences for a lot of people -- it doesn't matter how much harm you've really done, so long as you are effectively helping people.

There is also a lot of issue with how they figure out what's most effective.

New York has a similar thing about to take effect, as well.

Well. Damn. This helped me out, thanks.

She has a "version 2" as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLFbZlYWaKc

Someone just made this up so that they could get it away from their kid, didn't they?

I jest, but that would be funny.

Yeah, I realize that these are extremes of it, but when the faces of the movement are overwhelmingly awful people, it's a problem.

For sure! I happened to come across it by accident while watching the first version.

Another fun comparison is to watch Seven Samurai, then watch The Magnificent Seven.

Yeah, I've tried those out before. It tends to make the game feel weird, if that makes sense? Like, everything is still expecting time to progress.

Really, I want a game like Stardew, but without the hard timeline baked in from the start.

Because that dip isn't due to the blackout. Reddit was pretty hard down for about an hour.

Same -- I changed jobs since lockdown started, I work for a company now that was 100% remote before all this started. I've actually moved halfway across the country and... yeah, other than now I pay state income tax, nothing has changed for me. I have an office, that's technically a change, I guess.

This is actually an incredibly good point. This applies to writing, visual arts, music, programming...

Yep. I love planting things, harvesting them... I want Stardew Valley without the time management stuff.