Google isn’t blocking one of the biggest adblockers. It’s killing chrome!
Those who aren’t using an adblock won’t notice any difference but everyone else will just migrate to a non chromium browser
Google isn’t blocking one of the biggest adblockers. It’s killing chrome!
Those who aren’t using an adblock won’t notice any difference but everyone else will just migrate to a non chromium browser
And don’t come to me with the “but shares are not money”.
WTF are you on about? Where did I even alude to even suggesting that? Sounds like you’re really desperate to simp for him.
His companies are notoriously overvalued (so his shares in a practical sense are worth shit) and he is massively over leveraged so those who devise those wealth chart tables are chatting shit.
The real wealthy are incredibly private about their worth whereas boastful egotists like musk are all show no substance
I don’t think musk does have that much money though. He’s leveraged to the eyeballs & his businesses (Tesla & Space X) are not profitable without govt subsidies while starlink had repeatedly failed to meet targets & has competitors about to cut into it’s market.
I have my suspicions that Peter Thiel is assisting him to a degree as Twitter serves his purpose.
And if I bring stuff to cater for myself such as halloumi, veg sausages, etc, don’t expect me to share with you!
That article is horrible, not for it’s content but their insistence of underlining words and phrases in sentences as links but it creates false emphasis and makes it unreadable!
They need to learn to develop some subtlety with their word cloud link nonsense
Through a haze of cocaine
Reddit AMAs pretty much died after they sacked Victoria.
But it’s not about replicating what Reddit was about, then or now. It’s about getting back to what we had before the centralisation of the net but with the lessons learnt. To build a more egalitarian platform without the necessity to drive engagement at whatever cost.
We don’t need to, nor should look to set up tooling with what we learnt from Reddits failures. We’re building a new, better experience of the web and we definitely shouldn’t be looking to just migrate the user base from one site to a bunch of federated servers. We need people to definitely experience a cultural cleanse. Not to just have an exodus from there with all the bad habits and aggressions. We know where that path leads.
We are on the cusp of a potential paradigm shift of the internet and we can shape what it becomes!
Exciting times!
All of that didn’t happen overnight. It took literally years for all that to get baked.
It was at least 2 years before Imgur was created & then after that stuff like RES & mobile apps
Will, he did start on one to go into caves in Thailand but got distracted with calling the real hero a paedo!
I presume because it’s split up into a million loosely connected pieces, we should be largely insulated from corporate invasion and interference.
Aral Balkan has been posting about surveillance capitalism/centralised networks and corpotate landgrabs for years and said this the other day
To expedite the process, Mastodon instances should just defederate from them entirely. Don’t let them access that data through ActivityPub.
When Twitter had an exodus to Mastodon and a lot of new instances popped up, several were quickly defederated because they were scraping data from other instances, which made a lot of people uncomfortable.
There were also a few far right instances that spun up that were also defederated and blocked within 24 hours so the communities ability to respond to situations like this is very much there and I’m sure that the vast majority will not want to have a single thing to do with meta
I think its a case that those who moved recently (my account here is recent but Ive been on Lemmy.ml for 2 years), had seen the writing on the wall.
When the effects start to kick in, there will be another few large influxes then when the majority left on Reddit wonder why the site went to shit overnight and where everyone else went, they will leave too.
It will be very similar to what happened with Digg all those years ago.
Reddit is one of the most valuable websites on the entire internet. It’s being miss-managed,
Understanding why those 2 points matter is important:
Users are pumping the site full of free content willingly
A subset of those same users are moderating that content for free & others are creating tools and apps to make interaction with the bare framework a better user experience
The management know it’s a goldmine but are clueless in how to monetize it fully
Point 1 was how sites like Facebook and Twitter became huge and made billions off selling that data and the data points generated
Point 2 is how they fell down because they didn’t understand that they were content moderation businesses but failed to invest in that or use the Reddit model of getting users to moderate it themselves
Point 3 is what will cause Reddit to either collapse or die a slow death when the majority of its user base begin to realise they are producing and curating content for free and for a team that holds them in contempt.
A lot of users want to leave because they see that contempt but don’t get that they are still willing to offer their labour to others for free if they would just build a new playground for them. And not even a fully featured one because Reddits framework is a rickety piece of shit. Just enough of one for them to decorate themselves with 3rd party tools, which is basically what they did with MySpace.
[Edit to add] Extended point 2 which underlines the point that Reddit is very much like MySpace in that the users are shaping their experience of the site, not the other way round
the average media person’s mentality is geared toward mass distribution
Even this ‘writers’ take is that their path was to move away from community and threaded conversations into monologues.
The guy is a self important twit full of bad takes
Like with a lot about Reddit, things have been implemented that sounds good on paper but little thought has been given to the consequences.
As for the electing mods/vox populi…[barf]
It will become an Olympic event where you have to get from the shelf to the till before the price changes!