resonancewright

joined 2 years ago
[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 9 points 2 years ago

so they're going to e_rat_icate them?

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's like playing Oregon Trail. There's starvation, dysentery, Massacre Canyon, wolf attacks and a crazy ass raft ride you gotta make it through before you reach the promised land of the Willamette Valley

 

See, now, Mashable is being disingenuous here and stating that this is still about the API instead of Reddit's mask-off front and center plantation mentality toward the very people they accuse of being 'landed gentry'.

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago

The funny thing is the bastards are still trying to pretend this is all just about people losing free access to the API, when it is now quite firmly about them and their plantation mentality toward users and their unskillful power tripping. It's all how weak people think strong people act, and it's equal parts infuriating and pathetic.

 

Users’ anger continued to bubble over changes to the company’s business model.

 

Reddit users have been protesting proposed changes to the site’s API.

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 1 points 2 years ago

"Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow."

I can't even.

 

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

he's pitching his arguments to the money folks. At least that's my assumption. It's like this - he sure isn't pitching them to his user base. Aaron Swartz has gotta be spinning in his grave.

The thing is, there was a million different ways spez could have announced they were killing off third party apps that would have been better taken by the user base. At the end of the day 'we can't afford to keep serving ad free content to anyone with an ad free third party ap because we are an ad driven business' would not have been popular but it would have been a lot better than all the smarmy doubletalk, and then to start capping on Apollo's creator when the dude kept all the receipts you're basically making a popular hero of the guy on top of people in the industry already liking him better than you. A bunch of people who would not have really gotten upset are now up in arms and taking offense because they see it as an attack on their community. And homeboy just keeps doubling down on the condescension and patronization on top of that. It is a case study of what not to do. It has strong middle management energy and that's no compliment.

The irony is that if I were a rich investor, or a broker in an investment firm, considering investing in Reddit at this point I think my line would be 'ok, but any deal is contingent on you guys finding a new CEO, this one's toxic.'

 

In his first interview since thousands of so-called subreddits went dark in protest. Huffman said he is not going to reverse his plan to start charging for outside access to Reddit data.

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 6 points 2 years ago

TL;DR if we build it they will come

long version: Patience is called for here. It will eventually happen, but it will take a bit for many people. Because the folks who will make that happen are the existing mods of communities that have proven themselves willing to work hard for their community, and they will take convincing, which means that they'll need to convince themselves, and that takes time. Part of what will convince them is when they see the kinks being worked out of the system

It's worth remembering that there were many migration waves from the birdsite before Mastodon truly took off and we had some real hiccups along the way.

The moderators currently in revolt over at Reddit will slowly start realizing that a federated model will give them more control over their own destiny - and their own content - but first they need some comfort with Lemmy and interfaces like Fedia.

If you want to hurry things along, grab some like minded people and start a Migration Best Practices community here that can walk people through the move and help set their expectations as to what can be done here and what is better here and why it's better. But you gotta want it. If it were as easy as saying 'hey, we need more communities' it would have already been done.

 

In other news, Reddit CEO confirms status as clueless ass-clown.

“We absolutely must ship what we said we would.”

He forgot to add 'Otherwise I'll miss my big IPO payday and that can't happen'

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 15 points 2 years ago

I trust it more, I'd say.

I knew of Nate Silver back when his claim to fame was as a sabermetrician and the creator of a statistical model used to predict how baseball players would perform in the future based on present and prior statistical data. That was PECOTA. I actually liked PECOTA. In the long run I think you'd call it a useful failure. But Nate's baseball takes were actually very good and quite objective in nature. And he obviously was very good working with statistics.

I got amped up when I learned he was taking his skills into the arena of political analysis. If you remember the early years had a mix of success and failure but was usually good enough to draw onlookers. But something went wrong with all that after a few years -- Silver started showing bias in favor of candidates that he had consulting deals with. The objectivity just wasn't there, he was acting as a paid spokesman would. And the quality of his predictions suffered, as did his demeanor after a while. It was disappointing.

I regard the guy as someone with a deep understanding of political statistics and data who can help paint a very detailed picture, but he displays too much bias to be trusted to remain objective when it matters. It's kinda like having a defense lawyer. You always know in advance whose side they will take.

Whoever the new guys is, I guess we'll see whether he will remain a statistician, or follows Silver into trying his hand at becoming an influencer.

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Here's my take.

Don't worry about the Reddit people. Don't think you, we, have to make Lemmy into something because Reddit still exists and we want all those people to come over here. Don't try to make this place a 'better Reddit'. Let it be Lemmy. Let all that handle itself.

When Felon screwed up Twitter, Mastodon bent over backwards in the attempt to lift and shift Twitter people over to Mastodon, but the people who loved Twitter really didn't stick, because they needed the artificially driven engagement and numbers that were blown out of proportion by bot and NPC participation. They went over to Mastodon and were like 'uh, this ain't it' and they went on their way -- and that was a feature, not a bug. The ones who stayed, stayed because Mastodon was different from Twitter -- and we loved the differences once we got used to them. That was also a feature, not a bug.

There will likely be several platforms, open source, closed source, volunteer led or corporate, who try to capture Reddit emigres. People will end up picking the one they like best because they like it best. For me, as someone who has been on Reddit since the very early days, there was a lot to like there and also a lot to dislike. And to me, there were a lot of people in Reddit who I'd just as soon found a different home that suited their likes and dislikes instead of having a huge captive population lift and shift over here and spend the next god knows how long trying to turn Lemmy into what Reddit was. If this place never get 20% the size of Reddit, but you end up getting more meaningful engagement here the way one does at Mastodon vis a vis Twitter, to me that's not just a win but a big win.

Two cents, yours to keep.

[–] resonancewright@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago

This is fan service for his troglodytes.

Who else would give them such opportunities?