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It should be regulated.

💯 this. Pocketcasts is and has been outstanding for the years I’ve had it. Great UI, and will remember your position on a specific episode cross-platform.

Came here to post this, Mint just got purchased by T-Mobile.

Everyone who cares about their instance and the fediverse as a whole needs to defederate and block their instances as soon as they pop up.

The latter exactly. Because Spez and Reddit as a whole have refused to take action on them for literal years, they built up a critical mass, and were able to both plan a migration and do so successfully.

Oh interesting, it’s not showing as a link for me. I’ve edited. Thanks for the heads up!

Because it, as a massive problem instance for the alt-right to congregate, was allowed to build up and do whatever it wanted unfettered, once they did action it it was far too late. They immediately moved offsite to thedonald.win, and continued their actions there. It allowed them to conglomerate, coordinate, and show each other that there was enough of them to try and pull off heinous shit.

Jan 6th literally was planned and executed on thedonald, which only got to the critical mass it did because reddit refused to handle it.

It’s possible your space isn’t federated with those communities yet? You might need to start the link with searching for them using the [email protected] command to force your instance to download their pages first.

Yes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.

Does he have a disease that forces him to lie at every opportunity?

Oh neat! Yeah I agree.

When my Pixel 4a was on its way out, I was seriously tempted to get a Galaxy Flip4 because there’s someone who made a case turning it into a tricorder.

I’ve always been enamored with flip phones because they’re the closest thing we have to a Star Trek communicator, but the current gen of foldable screens are a nightmare.

That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Considering you used “woke” as a pejorative earlier and now you’re ranting about conspiracies involving Paramount (why would Paramount sanction a move to the fediverse where they can’t show ads?) and supporting a sub that was about supporting anti-mask/anti-vaxx nonsense during the beginning of a global pandemic that’s killed ~7 million people since 2020, I really am not even interested in furthering this discussion with you. LLAP 🖖

Yes. It is the same mod team.

You could always criticize them, you just couldn’t be lazy about your criticism.

I’ve many times talked about the inconsistency in character development, the trend to “give backstory and then kill a character,” and the absolutely nauseating camera movement (especially in the early seasons) of Discovery, for example. Never even got a warning, nor my posts removed.

There was a major thread like a year back talking about how in Disco, the actors don’t actually move about a scene when they do things. The movement is from room to room, and then they are stuck in place as they talk and it really throws you out of it.

Edit: In fact, there’s literally a post critiquing season 4 of Discovery right now on their front page with healthy discussion in the comments.

All of these were allowed before and still.

SubredditSimulator was a fun experiment by a random user with increasingly improving realism, training ChatGPT on real comments.

It also showed Reddit Inc you can fake engagement and community interaction with bots, which are now astroturfing the fuck out of the site.

Definitely a problem that needs solved sooner rather than later, but I assume with a lot more eyes on ActivityPub now, people much smarter than I will have a solution.

The site is being astroturfed by bots as well. So many FirstWordSecondWordBunchaNumbers comments that are all exactly the same trying to pin this on the mods.

Reddit has been caught astroturfing their site before, multiple times. It’s just not been reported on because it usually doesn’t happen in English, or happened when the site was small and young. Except for the admin moderated subs like r/programming. Seriously just go read the Controversial comments in those posts. It’s blatant ChatGPT spam.

There are entire alternate language versions of big subreddits filled with nothing but reposts of popular old posts run through a translator. Comments section and all.

SubredditSimulator was fun as an experiment but it’s clear they’ll artificially prop their engagement and I really hope advertisers catch on. If you’re a journalist in tech reading this, you’ve got a hell of a story to break about a top ten website fluffing up its stats for an illicit IPO grab.

The 90-9-1 rule of internet communities applies though. If you’re unfamiliar:

90% of people lurk, 9% interact, and 1% create content. Reddit has an additional 0.1% snuck in there of people who moderate.

If you’re in that smaller echelon of users who interact or submit/create content, you’re more than likely a user who these api changes affect. So the 90% doesn’t really matter in the long run if you have no content, and the content that does come in is poorly moderated or not modded at all.

This kills the reddit.