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The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]
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#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this critical scenario, are you saying welfare shouldn’t exist or that only believe who are unquestioning of a system are allowed to use it? I don’t think you are making the point you think you are.
Not the original commenter, but I agree with them. To me, it shows that the entire basis of Ayn Rand's philosophy was wrong. She goes on about how amazing capitalism is and the dangers of welfare states, yet the fact that she had to crawl back to the government for that very same welfare shows how necessary it is. It is simply hypocrisy, and I find it infects many of similar libertarian beliefs. This idea that it sho…
How does “it’s dangerous” mean it is never necessary? Or that “I don’t like a government program” mean “I’m not allowed to use it if needed”?
Why wouldn’t I think that that Rand considered it volume problem?
You are confusing the art for the artist. Don’t do that, you’ll be better for it.
Re: The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]
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To make this happen, we need better open source forum software. A group of us have been searching for a good self-hosted forum to replace /r/BuyItForLife and have trialed quite a few, but they are just... Really bad.
as an user, xenoforo seemed fine? But then I never had to deal with the admin side of things
Xenoforo is OK, but it has the same problems of any other forum:
- Time-based comment and post ordering means you're reading a lot of spam like "bump" and "first"
- If there is more than one conversation in a thread, they don't flow as well as they do in a hierarchy format like on HN/Reddit
- Because of user profile pictures, comments take up a lot of space and you can only see 3-4 comments on one screen
- Not very mobile-friendly
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To make this happen, we need better open source forum software. A group of us have been searching for a good self-hosted forum to replace /r/BuyItForLife and have trialed quite a few, but they are just... Really bad.
Define: really bad. I generally find the software is fine. The problem is login/security and spam control. Those are painful things that I really, really, really don't want to have to deal with. Yet they are the vast majority of the issue with self-hosting your own forums. Self-hosted forums are not a technical problem--they are a social problem.
You're correct. I do think login/security is mostly solved if you're OK using Google/GitHub/Apple login.
It's the moderation that's a tough part. Many forums end up with over-eager spam filters or captchas that end up driving away regular users.
I do hope that with cost reductions in LLMs we'll be able to have effective AI moderators soon enough.
Re: The ad-based internet is dying, and it's getting worse in the process [video]
#450His two examples are Twitter and Reddit whose ad revenue is dying because those two companies have made huge blunders. Elon seems to almost actively be killing Twitter (which the poster even states). Reddit screwed Apollo and then many of the most popular subreddits protested and did things like show porn on otherwise usually SFW content to prevent Reddit from showing ads and thus killing their profits. Those are big…
> Twitter and Reddit ... have made huge blunders In addition to which - they were never that solid in the first place. They (and Facebook) are mostly just "dumb hosting" for other people's content - if the content producers leave, they don't have anything to offer. They don't even really own the content that was produced on their platform and it wouldn't have any value even if they did. There's a weak value propositi…
the real value for them is in knowing your preferences and building a profile on you where they can categorize you with people who have similar interests.
Look at the facebook ads platform from the perspective of a small business looking to advertise. It is incredibly effective in how it can target people.