I hope that won’t last for long. I made a joke that Reddit was circling the drain with how hateful and political every subreddit was becoming and then they permanently banned all of my accounts. 10 years on reddit, 10 years of putting effort into my posts and comments with over 250k total karma and I was banned for a half serious joke. My appeal was instantly denied as well. It was unreal. After the API changes that was the final straw for me. Fuck Reddit. I was joking before but now I really am hoping that the company sinks.
I don’t think the “investment” in Reddit is the usual “invest in company because it will make money directly”, but “use wall st money to give stronger incentives about controlling the narrative than ad revenue was previously able to give”.
I bet employees have to agree to a hefty NDA to remain employed there. I hope someone breaks that NDA at some point.
Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.
Imo, the neat thing about this current “weird” discourse is that only right-wingers could ever find it genuinely insulting. Any sensible, self-actualized human being who isn’t obsessing over the sex and genetalia of others is like “haha, yeah, I am kinda weird”.
But the right wing is built on the misconception that they are “normal” and everything else is a problem. They’re the only ones that could ever be bothered by being told they’re weird, because it deconstructs the very foundation of their beliefs. Without the core of “we are normal and everyone else is causing problems in our normal society” backing up their every decision to threaten others over the religon, sexuality or life choices of others, they instead have to face reality: it’s normal to be a little weird, and it’s normal for some of that weird stuff to take root and become normal. And to refuse it and obsess over it is, in its own way, kinda weird.
Exactly, exactly! To keep it going, I think their whole worldview is based on what’s “natural” and how their shitty behaviour and policies and ideas are normal and natural, because they view stereotypes about human nature (esp re sex, gender roles, race, family structures, etc) like these unshakeable institutions that they’re powerless to influence in any way.
When really it’s like, nah it hasn’t always been like this, and it will continue changing, forever.
Further, we can do the very difficult work of trying to change it in a way that benefits more of us!
I was awarded Reddit gold a few times. The private subreddit it gave access to was underwhelming. There were also mixed feelings about someone liking my comment so much that they gave Reddit money for it. I’m sure there were better ways to spend that money that also wouldn’t have affected me much. I generally prefer relies anyways.
I’ve heard it a few times recently, then saw something posted in i think the autism instance? Dunno, not sure which it was, but this popped into my head and thought it illustrated it neatly.
Community and Instance actually have a hard meaning here. Communities are the equivalent of subreddits, while instances are the equivalent of reddits. Reddit only had the one instance of course.
I wonder if mastodon has communities. Or is there a more twitter thing they do?
I think mastodon is more akin to Twitter, but I can’t really say as I haven’t used it. Thanks for that clarification though, it is a pretty important distinction.
Reddit is dying. Spez is a degenerate freak, a scam artist, and a Nazi. The OpenAI training platform / propaganda website begins to circle the drain. Microsoft is starting to lose the last iota of goodwill they once had.
Nothing about Reddit looks good into the future and no one, with serious cash, is going to invest in a dying platform run by a scam artist, a freak, and a Nazi.
The questions now are, “How long?” and “What’s next?”
Even before going in, the operation was a limited offensive only by a technical definition, but was clearly to everyone (including Netanyahu and Biden) as a major offensive. Biden has been trying to negotiate with Netanyahu, but ideology of Netanyahu and right-wing zionism does not regard Arabs (or any non-Jews) as equal persons to Israelis.
At this point it’s going to be difficult to square cooperation with the Israeli state without also condoning atrocity against humanity. Both Israel and the US are demonstrating they would be fine with a genocide machine comparable to the Holocaust, so long as privileged groups (whites, Jews, Christians) are not targeted as Lebensunwertes Leben.
Both states are now implicitly suggesting Hitler did nothing wrong or at most chose some [awkward] targets.
Yep. and don’t forget this “limited Rafah operation” was going to get rid of the last remains of Hamas and their tunnels and deliver israel to total victory!
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