Technology

It's seriously hilarious that the "damage control" has been more damaging than the blackout itself

They wouldn't be lying about trying to work with devs

Its fascinating watching him keep digging. He bullshits, gets caught out, so he bullshits about a different dev. Rinse. Repeat.

I haven't been to Reddit for a few days and they did these stuff already? Let's keep this up.

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/43599/Reddit-censoring-information-about-kbin

Plus, you shut down the pipeline. No one's going to make the jump from the other 95% if the content sucks.

Plus you dont want to pay bouncers so the number of assholes is going to keep creeping up

I honestly can't believe he's being so egotistical about it. Insults mods as "landed gentry" and users' concerns as "noise" - those are literally the people that have created this "valuable dataset" he's coveting so greedily.

Fidelity dropping reddit's valuation by ~40% made me go "oh boy that's bad news" when I saw it at the start of the month.

Imagine thinking you're cashing out at 10 billion and now you're only getting 6. The horror.

Except that it already has been. They've already scraped it, and can refer back to either the archives, or just scrape Reddit like they do with other websites if they want to pull more information.

They didn't pay before, why would they bother paying now? Worst case is that they just exclude Reddit (like they did Twitter), and train from other sites instead. It's no great loss.

True! Put the blame on the one's that earned it

I haven't been on since the 10th and I was on it near constantly before that. If reddit sync isn't going to be around 10 days from now then I have no plans to use the site anything like I used to. I literally have no desire to learn their crappy app and lose the curated experience I had set up for myself. The only redditing I plan for the future is googling for specific questions in niche communities.

Same here. I'm trying to find other ways to support the protests. The community I'm moderating there will migrate over to here (yay!) but I don't expect more than a couple hundred to move. I will keep moderating the community over there (because we're a gay community and a safe space for trans men which is sorely lacking on Reddit), but I've deleted the app from my phone and only use old.reddit.com with uBlock origin to make sure I'm not contributing to Reddit's bottom line.

Look, I am happy as long as there are enough people on lemmy and kbin to have a fun website here. I can go and visit reddit now and then to see what kind of stuff they're upvoting, that's not a problem. But I want the potentially better alternatives to grow.

Well, two things about that. In their interviews, Huffman says this decision making is based on Elon Musk at Twitter. Presumably Twitter also crunched the numbers, but look how that is turning out. I think the statement about Musk implies that Huffman is not basing this on numbers but on ideology and an example set by Musk.

Secondly, they can crunch the numbers, it doesn't mean they are right, or that they are not subject to change in unexpected ways. Digg V4 was also a calculated decision, but they greviously miscalculated.

Regular users don't care about the mod drama. The real backlash will start on July 1st when all the apps stop working.

When the "vocal minority" are the ones providing quality content and weeding out the crap (i.e. power users and mods), it will take its toll. That minority is critical for making the whole thing work.

stares at capitalism

This isn’t a quote from an expert, these are the actual words of the author of the article. “fill their needs… with advertising.”

Feeds not needs. You even wrote that when you quoted the author.