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Bored As gently caress posted:All third party reddit apps are down because reddit decided to start charging for its API or some poo poo like that. Apparently the new reddit CEO is a Muskovite and speaks entirely rear end in a top hat. So he's at the helm intending to jump ship with a golden parachute or something when he can sell Reddit to someone else. Except reddit has never turned a profit and new funding rounds are blocked from the Fed nuking venture capital. l o l and l m a o
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facialimpediment posted:the new reddit CEO Steve Huffman, a.k.a. “spez” isn’t new. He is one of Reddit’s cofounders, the one who didn’t marry Serena Williams and get embarrassingly into NFTs*. He’s been CEO continuously since 2015 and for some time prior to that, with a short interregnum where Ellen Pao was CEO and took all the heat, but during which Huffman was probably calling the shots anyway. *He spent a bunch of money implementing NFTs on the Reddit platform but as far as I know he didn’t have a Lazy Ape as his Twitter profile picture, buy an ape in honor of his wife, and get into fights on Twitter about it. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jul 1, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:Steve Huffman, a.k.a. “spez” isn’t new. He is one of Reddit’s cofounders, the one who didn’t marry Serena Williams and get embarrassingly into NFTs*. facialimpediment posted:l o l and l m a o man that makes things even dumber, I thought he was just recently put / became in control or something
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The Reddit app is complete dogshit now and has been for a long time, but it was not always dogshit. It was once a quite good third party app called “Alien Blue”. Reddit bought Alien Blue and ran it into the ground.
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Boost on Android still seems to be working for me. The developer sent a notification yesterday that it would stip working along with all the others, but I literally just refreshed it 
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Reddit Is Fun or RIF was a good app but its dead now
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Bored As gently caress posted:Reddit Is Fun or RIF was a good app but its dead now All of the good 3rd party apps are dead. They would have probably gotten away with killing them if they didn’t do it by killing the API, which also killed all of the tools that unpaid moderation staff used to keep control of their subreddits. They could have just changed the TOS and nuked the third party competition with c/d letters with minimal waves but they went full idiot and tried to monetize the API without putting anything in place for the unpaid employees that keeps Reddit somewhat manageable. It’s unfortunate because there are a ton of really niche subreddits that have no community elsewhere on the web.
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They "tried to monetize the API" as much as Twitter did. They intentionally set a price they knew none of these companies would be able to afford. Shutting them down was the intent, but you could see from a lot of bootlickers on reddit that people bought into the idea that reddit was just being reasonable. If they had instituted a market rate and insisted on pushing ads through the API unless they got a cut of subscription fees I think the 3rd party devs would have been on board. But they didn't do something like that, because monetization wasn't the issue.
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Lake of Methane posted:If monetization isn’t the issue, what do they dislike about 3rd party apps? Data collection and ads.
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The Silicon Valley / Venture Capital model requires ever growing profits and the Fed turned off the free money hose, so you're seeing Reddit, Musk, and everyone else trying to squeeze as much blood from the stone as they can even if it spells long term doom for their respective businesses.
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Tiny Timbs posted:They "tried to monetize the API" as much as Twitter did. They intentionally set a price they knew none of these companies would be able to afford. Shutting them down was the intent, but you could see from a lot of bootlickers on reddit that people bought into the idea that reddit was just being reasonable. User data, and its monetization, is the issue. Reddit wants to go public and make a lot of money. The issue is that everything is dependent on unpaid users and mods, they have no incentive other than the experience and if that goes to poo poo, there's no reason to stay.
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Lake of Methane posted:If monetization isn’t the issue, what do they dislike about 3rd party apps? They want the user data and to control the user experience. The official app allows all sorts of data collection and user experience manipulation (like inserting posts in their feed) they can't do via 3rd parties. They can also insert more elaborate ads than they could through an API, I guess.
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The API thing is already killing subreddits, and it's a bummer. I've had a handful of niche subs disable comments because posts are getting spammed with bullshit ads for one of those wish or shien knockoff sites.
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Lake of Methane posted:If monetization isn’t the issue, what do they dislike about 3rd party apps? Reddit’s CEO stated, publicly, two weeks ago, that Elon Musk’s handling of Twitter was an inspiration to him. Your guess is as good as mine. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700 posted:In an interview Thursday [June 15] with NBC News, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman praised Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter, and said he had chatted “a handful of times” with Musk on the subject of running an internet platform. quote:“And then I think one of the nonobvious things that Elon showed is what I was hoping would be true, which is: You can run a company with that many users in the ads business and break even with a lot fewer people,” Huffman said.
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Break even? Hasn't twitter taken a shellacking
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Milo and POTUS posted:Break even? Hasn't twitter taken a shellacking All break, no even.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Break even? Hasn't twitter taken a shellacking Even to the extent that Twitter was in the red, which is basically lying with accounting because of a one‐time settlement in the last fiscal year, it’s still true that the amount of money that Musk paid for Twitter—and for that matter the amount of money that Twitter has lost in valuation since—could have covered the budget shortfalls for literally decades. It’s like being concerned that your convertible’s roof has a leak it in, so you put the roof down. e: That’s unfair. It’s a sedan that he took a Sawzall to.
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The '20's dot-com bubble round two, where everyone finds out that you can only sell so much cheap imported poo poo, games that make you cum in under 10 seconds and boxed mattresses, and that's the only way these hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tech companies make money sure is gonna be fun. Social Media is complete brain poison, and we'd be better off without it, so we may come out ahead.
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bengy81 posted:The API thing is already killing subreddits, and it's a bummer. I've had a handful of niche subs disable comments because posts are getting spammed with bullshit ads for one of those wish or shien knockoff sites. Lol Shien just sent social media influencers to tour carefully chosen and prepped overseas factories to see “labor conditions” and they got a bit of flack for comments like how the workers aren’t even sweating much. But yeah a lot of fun tiny communities seem to be gone.
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Elviscat posted:Social Media is complete brain poison, and we'd be better off without it, so we may come out ahead. I came around to this view only recently and I think it started with witnessing the rise of the "influencer" profession and digging into how abusive and manipulative the business around social media is.
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things seem to be going COMPLETELY NORMAL in France. https://vxtwitter.com/NotoriousPBG/status/1675084864796921858 Its normal for police to declare they won't follow the law or government orders, and will implement a final solution to the immigrant problem, right?
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Fivemarks posted:Its normal for police to declare they won't follow the law or government orders, and will implement a final solution to the immigrant problem, right? Brother, I'm an American. I think you quoted Arpaio's campaign site.
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Fivemarks posted:things seem to be going COMPLETELY NORMAL in France. Need to start screenshotting things with how Twitter is breaking
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Need to start screenshotting things with how Twitter is breaking 
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Thank you, for some reason I can't upload a screenshot on my phone If you're using one of the third-party SA apps that used to have automatic image uploading, I believe they disabled that when imgur changed its terms of service to delete old inactive images.
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Fivemarks posted:things seem to be going COMPLETELY NORMAL in France. The third republic has the post 1789 record of 70 years, 65 years is a pretty good run all told.
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hobbesmaster posted:The third republic has the post 1789 record of 70 years, 65 years is a pretty good run all told. It doesn't matter what they call it, it always eventually turns into the Directory. At least they didn't end up with a King the past couple of times.
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"ALLIANCE NATIONAL POLICE Police Press release Paris, June 30, 2023 NOW THAT'S ENOUGH ... Faced with these wild hordes, asking for calm is no longer enough, you have to impose it! Restoring republican order and putting those arrested out of harm's way should be the only political signals to give. Faced with such abuses, the police family must show solidarity. Our colleagues, like the majority of citizens, can no longer endure the dictates of these violent minorities. Now is not the time for union action but for the fight against these pests”. Submitting, capitulating and pleasing them by laying down their arms are not the solutions given the gravity of the situation. All means must be put in place to restore the rule of law as quickly as possible. Once recovered, we already know that we will relive this poo poo that we suffer for decades For these reasons Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA Police will take their responsibilities and warn the Government now that at the end, we will be in the action and without concrete measures of legal protection of the Police, of adapted penal response, of consequent means brought, the Police will judge the height of the consideration given. Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will be in resistance and the Government will have to realize this. National offices Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA Police. " A quick Google lens translate
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The French of all people should realize that 1930s Germany is not a how-to manual.
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Kazinsal posted:The French of all people should realize that 1930s Germany is not a how-to manual. I think they’re following a different manual. Vive de Gaulle!
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