Technology

idk how else to express my appreciation for this except to tell you that I gazed upon it with love and admiration for a good minute, long enough that I made my own self uncomfortable with how happy this goofy picture made me. It feels like a true representation of the casual, homemade, "let's just try it!" vibe of lemmy. This is beautiful, thank you.

I'm okay with Alemmynum, I'm pretty low cost.

Dayumn gotta get me some Lemmy plat to be a big baller.

"Thank you kind stranger!"

/s

Yea ... all around, it's looking more and more likely that big social may become something rather embarrassing and dystopian.

The best reason I can think of for why big social is going to die is that it was born out of a particular economic environment that either inaccurately assessed the technological-financial situation or just doesn't exist anymore. Namely, that having a bunch of users on your platform and the data that follows will always magically just produce a profitable business model such that blindly investing in such a business is an obvious move.

I'm guessing that big social just isn't that profitable, or is only profitable at the sort of mega monopoly level that facebook and google operate at, but even then risks fading over time due to how social spaces are generational. And that the belief that big social was super profitable was born out of a vague big data web2.0, that convinced itself it had found the new oil.

Beyond that, throwing VC cash at big-data businesses may just not be something anyone believes in any more, partly because of the above, and partly, I'm wondering, because the power of actually creating new technology and new types of platforms has always been a bigger business prospect and AI and chatGPT has basically forced the tech world to remember that.

If I'm on to something, the awkward thing for Twitter and Reddit is that their finances and corporate structures are probably bound up in the older presumptions and have no choice but to do their best to return on the promised profits, however dumb they look, while the rest of us can easily and happily move on, because that's what the internet is fundamentally about.

Spez is following twitter's playbook down to the letter. Aren't twitter just starting to enable revenue sharing program with their most popular users?

And all that after killing any automated moderation that utilized public API

The amout of shooting themselves in the leg is through the roof

This comme et deserves some Lemmy Gold 🏆

Must be something about this paying program where they pay people for getting karma and awards.

I was getting awards for this lol:

I just went and gilded a bunch of fuck u/spez posts with gold I apparently had but never bought

I’ve been on there browsing at lunch telling people about here, old being gone would be it. That’s the Digg in the dirt for me.

WTF? Like, I never bothered with the things, but why would they go to the trouble of stripping them out? Somethings weird about that.

It wasn't that bad, gold just signals that the comment is good (intensity), but some of the other awards made explicit the way in which it is good (hue/flavour) e.g. funny, informative, creative, sarcastic...I actually liked the award system (even if I always was a bit suspicious of who was giving them and what their intentions were)

I don't understand why people frequently say this. While it's true you can pay money for them, I've never spent a dime on reddit and have given out over 50 golds and have enough coins to give out a half dozen more. I don't know what the mechanics are for earning the coins I have, all I can say is I haven't paid for any of them yet I do have them, so it's not true that when someone gives an award it was paid for with real money.

To be fair they're attempting to rehost reddit.net's content, right?

Yeah, I'd limit them too.

Not saying everything reddit is doing is great, but at least that one makes sense.

If you disagree with reddit, the best thing to do is cut the cord, not to continue using them in other formats. The only reason to use reddit is to tell people about alternatives.

If he’d had any insight, he’d have realized Reddit’s structure wasn’t a good vehicle for monetization and gone the way of Wikipedia/Jimmy Wales. He’d be popular and respected now and probably able to extract a decent living from it.

But his insistence that a square peg be pounded into a round hole will end up with him being neither popular nor respected—and he’ll never sniff that moonshot IPO.

What is Reddit...

... Baby, don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! No more!

Ssshhh we don't talk about that here