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Penny Arcade - Comic - Darkness
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Darkness
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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I'm not a redditor, but is this implying that site is dying? Have people moved on to something else? Something that perhaps doesn't have a total shit interface? I honestly can't ever understand how Reddit caught on to begin with. The site's design is terrible.
It references that most subs went dark for the past few days to protest a few changes in how Reddit is running the site and API.
Reddit has since backed down and said they'll allow programs intended for moderation to continue, which was the biggest source of objection, so things might calm down or they might not.
Also a side affect of so many subs going private was that it apparently caused problems with the app loading anything.
Then again, I could just be incredibly cynical.
Negative, you are not cynical. I repeat, Red Leader, you are Not cynical. You are on the nose, fire all tubes.
Posturing is an excuse a lot of people use for maniacs like Baylon Tusk, or Taynald Rump, to claim they're intelligent, when they're just swinging their d-wolves around trying to make the world adjust for Contrast on their philosophical view tubes so that the Epstein's don't look "that bad". But this commander dork of this company reddit is starting to jump on the stupid rich 1984 train (right over a shark) that Tycho's talking about, and reddit has been playing a lawful-neutral demeanor for so long that they had some clout levels to spend and permanently lose on this raise dead, but we know their nature, we'll find out how many willpower points they can spend.
I hope they get knocked to level 1 and lose their last CON point from this if this is how he's going to treat his audience though. A business can't live off of destroying it's free work force. Their ad revenue must be insane, its like tribbles up in that b lately.
To be fair, it appears this $20 million figure that I've seen tossed around in several places is specifically what it was estimated to cost the Apollo app to stay up and running for a year. I've never heard of it, but apparently it's considered to be the most popular Reddit app on iOS. So, it's not like everyone is getting a bill for $20 million to use Reddit's API.
-Tycho Brahe
If someone builds a bridge and charges a 10 dollar toll to cross it, well that's a bit of an oof but yeah, ok, they have costs to cover.
If they charge 300 dollars, they just don't really want people walking over it. What Louis Rossman called "Fuck You pricing".
Reddit is solely concerned with making people use their app so they can ram advertising into your field of view.
I'm trying to decide if the best response to something like this is:
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One of the many reasons I refuse to install site specific apps for any sort of online browsing beyond a generic web browser that allows me to install things like uBlock. And no, I will not disable it, dear site owner, unless you sign liability paperwork that assumes responsibility for any damage your third party ads do to my computer, which have been abused as an attack vector before. No, I will not install your data harvesting tool that opens another hole in my security either.
No, I don't care that you have taken a digital pill and that it should be safe to go raw. The computer condom stays on.
On a lighter note:
I guess that *really* depends on what your favorite subreddits are. 🤨
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544
I hope I can catch the window between that asshole removing moderators (that is my read on his quotes) / reopening the subs and everything being nuked so that I can still copy my saved posts into text documents.
this move is absolutely about reddit pushing their own app, but I mean, if they wanna keep operating the site they do need to make money
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
which is funny because that dick is spinning the protest as "not democratic"
see also: his AmA which backfired
and while he was remarkably tone deaf in his ama he fundamentally just said 'look the site needs to make money and this is a way we can do it'
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
"I" don't like this false "needs to make money" argument. The sites been up for decades, the ads are increasing Right Now even in the recent years. If it weren't "making money" then, surprise, it wouldn't have been up that whole time. It costs money to pay devs, rent domain "ownership", pay off cdn's, pay off ISP's, pay power bills, to rent or own data center space. It's a straw man, they've been making money for decades, he's just pulling political BS to tow the line with the other Richie Rich's who haven't learned the lesson that the world started with a buildup to millions of farmers/gatherers, not millions of billionaires.
I think the current sticky on r/askhistorians sums it all up well
It's like Boaty McBoatFace, except Dicky McDickface, the alt-right troll now gets to moderate the LGBT+ subreddit because of course that's exactly the sort of social engineering trolls on Reddit are great at.
The people with the strongest opinions about moderators are nearly always exactly the people who make moderation necessary. People who don't get modded don't think much about moderators.
"I too aim to emulate the actions that have cost Musk's shareholders at least $20B. So far. Please subscribe to the Reddit IPO!"
These people are knowingly fucking with us, aren't they? This is like those shitheads than burn £20 notes in front of homeless people, except with million pound notes instead.
As someone who occasionally works with APIs for a living, I can tell you the fees were so beyond the industry standards that honestly the only thing I can assume is that the idea was to make nobody actually *use* the API so people would have to use the proprietary Reddit app. Because what in the *fuck* is that price structure.
Does that mean we can vote the ceo out?
Only if he makes a poll.