d0om on 18/6/2023 at 14:11
/pics, aww and GIFs had votes and are now open again, by only pictures of John Oliver are allowed!
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Necrohowl on 18/6/2023 at 17:28
From the very little that I have read, it looks like just yet another boring Elon Musk-type of shit.
I am way more interested in what the fuck is up with that "Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk" on each of your messages.
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Way ahead of them. I got suspended five days ago and have two days left before I can post again. A Russian propaganda shill admitted it to one poster so another poster asked how much they were paid and they said 1000 a month. I said what is that US? About five dollars? And that they wouldn't be getting the Putin potatoes this month because they admitted it.
The r/LookatmyHalo admin charged me with harassment. Nothing done to the admitted paid propagandist. Nobody at the appeals helm. So yeah, fuck those admins. I hope they cry so hard their Putin potatoes rot.
I think a lot of the conservative ones are run by Russians. r/bestconspiracymemes for certain.
Funniest story I ever read, hah! Thanks for sharing it!
By the way, he admitted to it, but not proven by you or him :)
Tocky on 19/6/2023 at 02:48
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Funniest story I ever read, hah! Thanks for sharing it!
By the way, he admitted to it, but not proven by you or him :)
Yeah. I got no idea about this one individually but I do know redditt gets hit with waves of certain propagandists after developments in the war. And I know that, in addition to no humor from redditts admins, they are particularly sensitive in defending a certain country beginning in R and not Rwanda, Rhodesia, or Romania.
Pyrian on 19/6/2023 at 05:02
Apparently the Reddit CEO sees Musk's example with Twitter as something to be emulated.
heywood on 19/6/2023 at 12:41
Well, they're both trying to turn around companies with money-losing advertising-driven business models at a time when ad revenue is starting to decline. The difference is that Steve Huffman sold Reddit and is getting paid a nice salary to run it, while Musk is losing a good chunk of his personal fortune on Twitter.
Reddit's über-forum concept has obvious appeal, but it has all the negatives of a big platform.
d0om on 30/6/2023 at 19:49
Won't that immediately remove tweets from Google, previews on links etc? Seems a rather bad policy.
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WingedKagouti on 1/7/2023 at 00:29
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Won't that immediately remove tweets from Google, previews on links etc? Seems a rather bad policy.
It will also cut down on the amount of money Musk has to spend on data transfers for tweet previews that don't bring in advertising revenue, which is what I guess his thought was. He has obviously framed it as part of fighting the good fight against AI's scraping information, but that's a red herring.
Cipheron on 6/7/2023 at 04:23
Today I heard about Lemmy, an open-source community hosted alternative to Reddit. Similar to Mastodon, this is named after Lemmy from Motorhead, who passed away around the time the software was being developed.
Lemmy apparently got a boost by being a banned topic on Reddit during the recent API protest:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software))
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https://www.videogamer.com/news/reddit-ban-subreddit-user-for-alternative-platforms)
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Following on from recent controversies surrounding Reddit, users have been looking for alternatives to the site. One of them, Lemmy - an open-source social link sharing platform, was being publicised on Reddit, before the original poster was banned by Reddit, alongside the sub /r/LemmyMigration.
Now, a day after the incident occurred, the banned account and subreddit have been re-instated, though Reddit have certainly imposed a Streisand Effect on their recent activity.
So they really want to censor any discussion of rival platforms, but realized too late it's a bad look.
Nameless Voice on 9/7/2023 at 01:28
Quote Posted by WingedKagouti
It will also cut down on the amount of money Musk has to spend on data transfers for tweet previews that don't bring in advertising revenue, which is what I guess his thought was. He has obviously framed it as part of fighting the good fight against AI's scraping information, but that's a red herring.
I'd like to believe that all the sites scraping Twitter are instead hammering the servers more, because they're getting errors and so, naturally, retrying repeatedly until the error goes away.
