Another useless website goes to its grave.
I am much happier touching grass, always been voluntary - now many more can touch grass with me.
Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
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Some people here laughed at me when I said their financial projections are garbage, obviously have false assumptions given they’re actually implementing the plan. It’s a sad thing to watch.
What makes you so sure that you were right? The world is way more irrational than you think and their financial projections may still be accurate.
We’ll see! They may yet turn out to be TikTok after all.
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Surprisingly no one has mentioned Tildes.net yet. It's something in between reddit and hackernews. Requires an invite to register, though they are quite easy to find.
How? I've been anonymously lurking on Tildes for months, haven't seen an opportunity. I'm even a Patreon subscriber!
I got one today by writing to someone on r/redditalternatives mentioning it. Would offer you one, but can’t yet send invites.
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Loads of Excel users aren't really doing "spreadsheets" except in the sense that it's Excel and that's a spreadsheet software, so arguably this is a spreadsheet. The same way arguably if I type this novel into Visio now that's a diagram. Like, is "An Oak Tree" a sculpture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Oak_Tree For many Excel users it's like computerised graph paper, they can write stuff in boxes, maybe use it to…
Just as a side note: > It was once barred by Australian officials from entering the country as "vegetation".[13][14] Craig-Martin was forced to inform them that it was really a glass of water. He said, "It was of course a wonderfully funny incident, particularly because it extended into 'real life' the discussion about belief and doubt, and fact and fiction I was addressing in the work." I'm somehow really let down b…
The "bit" is Transubstantiation, a key Miracle of the Catholic faith. Catholics believe that the Eucharist blessing, a ritual often performed in Churches on a Sunday, literally transforms the bread and wine - they aren't just symbols, they literally are now Christ's Flesh and Christ's Blood. Now, you may observe that, just as "An Oak Tree" looks, and in every way seems exactly like a glass of water, the bread and wine still looks and in every way seems exactly like bread and wine, but Catholicism teaches that nevertheless they are the Body and Blood of Jesus.
(Roman) Catholics who care will be told this is because all observable properties are just incidental whereas the substantial nature changed, just imperceptibly.
Now, the exact details will vary outside Roman Catholicism, but you should generally expect that either they're deliberately vague (Eastern Orthodox and Anglican traditions) or they have the same sort of dubious philosophical out, and that's what this artwork is about.
So, it's not really necessary to the "bit" that you insist it's actually An Oak Tree at customs. Catholicism works around this question (obviously it's not OK to import thousand year old flesh or blood without a very difference license from bread and wine) because the bread and wine are just bread and wine up until the ritual is performed, you could do the same by just deciding a different glass of water on a shelf is "An Oak Tree" to skip the customs check.
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#945Why did reddit choose to charge app developers (causing financial uncertainty) for API requests instead of charging the end-users? By purchasing my own usage and loading an API key into Apollo, I could continue to pay Apollo for the app alone like today, and pay Reddit separately for the API access. At least this way, I could decide if I’m happy with the price for API access. I can only assume Reddit deliberately wan…
> Why did reddit choose to charge app developers (causing financial uncertainty) for API requests instead of charging the end-users?
My theory is because they want to kill off third party access.
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ah I see. Too high a price then.
the actual price Apollo charged would likely have to be much higher. The average number of API calls for the users who are deep enough into reddit addiction to be willing to pay for it would be substantially higher without the casual user who views 10 pages a month to average it out. The problem is casuals are not going to pay, only powerusers would pay and they're making hundreds of calls per day/thousands per month…
Yeah I think they can set a general price, but for big hitters like Apollo they figure out what makes sense.
So yeah, I agree reddit is probably just trying to get rid of the app competition. I just can't believe any serious analysis led them to think this was the right pricing.
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Yeah exactly. I have issues with what social media does to people and some of what Mark has done.. but he is nowhere near my level of despise for Musk, Kanye or others in that circle.
Kanye is suffering from mental illness and was off his medication while simultaneously having millions of dollars, adoring fans, and cameras in his face 24/7/365. I think most of us would do something stupid in that situation. I don't really get why you would "despise" someone for being ill.
I don't know if you're unaware of the entire saga or if you've done some stuff you regret in the past but going on Alex Jones with Nick Fuentes is not something I'm giving a mental-health-pass on. I'm open to feedback that I'm an ableist jerk but I'm also not holding my breath.
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Interesting thought. If they can be fired, they were employed.
By that definition, almost every user on every social media platform would be an "employee". What reddit mods are doing is really not that different from creating a facebook group to organise a party with your friend or a twitter page to share curated content that you love. Mods don't work for reddit, they work for their community/subreddit. Creating a group on a social media platform doesn't make you an employee tha…
I know one person personally who is a mod. It sure does look like work. He is effectively on-call and always tending to fires. I can imagine this to be a minority but yeah, I thought of it as "his job"
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#949I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…
It's important to remember that Digg imploded for the same reason that Reddit is having trouble: a big investment, followed by demands to recoup it. Reddit was ready to take up the slack. The thing that will save Reddit is that there doesn't seem to be another service ready to absorb the outflow.
Reddit also wasn't ready to absorb the outflow, it was pretty small at the beginning. It grew massive with time, just as the current Reddit alternatives might.
Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
#950Earlier quoted context omitted.
ah I see. Too high a price then.
the actual price Apollo charged would likely have to be much higher. The average number of API calls for the users who are deep enough into reddit addiction to be willing to pay for it would be substantially higher without the casual user who views 10 pages a month to average it out. The problem is casuals are not going to pay, only powerusers would pay and they're making hundreds of calls per day/thousands per month…
And Reddit already sells Reddit Gold, users could pay with it for the privilege to use the API on any third-party client. Everything so far points as Reddit deliberately killing third-party apps.