CoWizard

In a statement, Fitch cited three reasons for downgrading the US rating: concerns the US economy is going to deteriorate over the next three years; a high national debt; and repeated political standoffs over managing the country’s finances (specifically, brinksmanship over the country’s self-imposed debt limit, the cap on how much to US can borrow to pay its bills).

Emphasis mine. This honestly makes a lot of sense. This is not something a rational, credible actor does.

People were freaking out about a possible default.

Wow, this is one of the few times I’ve seen a level headed take on Snowden in the wild

This is anecdotal, but amazon is rarely the cheapest place to shop nowadays, even with prime shipping

There’s also a staggering lack of good content. That, and a bunch of QoL problems have yet to be fixed.

Guitars, guitarpedals, various gardening communities, various construction communities, homeowning communities, diy stuff, worldjerking.

A lot of the non tech savvy communities have yet to move. It’s the same reason facebook groups are good for that sort of thing

I still have a few communities that have yet to migrate, so I hate browse them. But sometimes it recommends these rating subs, and morbid curiosity takes over. I swear, the vitriol that is emitted from some of these people… It’s just depressing to see people treated that way

It was probably hitting reddit a lot, which has now disabled their api

I’ve found it has the weirdest active communities. The best poison control first line is through a facebook group.

It’s great for ‘boomer knowledge’. Geo trackers, foraging, mushroom growing, 80’s japanese guitars, tree ID, etc.

Marketplace has taken away some of the sketchiness of Craigslist.

Facebook and Meta and Zucc are evil, but facebook is still a useful tool

Facebook is nowhere near as dead as you think it is. It is still the best place for local groups and many niche hobbyist groups. I really don’t want reddit to be another version of that, 1 crappy social site is enough. Also you’re missing a key differentiating factor: facebook has actual paid content moderators.

I don’t think reddit will die, at least not right away (remember, digg shut down finally in 2018).

Best case scenario is they hemorrhage users, fail ipo, and then join the fediverse. I say this because joining will create a bridge for new users to come here.
Worst case scenario is they become like twitter. which is possible.
My money is on them trying to sell to Microsoft or Google for ai training, and keeping their api private.

It’s been archived, but I can’t find an easy way to browse it. So far I’ve just been using the web archives plugin and finding a archived version of a page

I’ve gotten it to give boiler plate for converting one library to another for certain embedded protocols for different platforms. It creates entry level code, but nothing that’s too hard to clean up or to get the gist of how a library works.

Lets hope the company stays afloat after this one. Hopefully they can get more billionaires to sign on

People HATE that deboosting shit. People HATE the idea that the corps track this data to try and get inside your head and see how you think and act, so they can better influence it to their own ends. And right now, it’s no longer really about an app as it is, it’s all about meta. This will be gasoline on the fire.

TicTok is still very popular

That potentially millions of 3rd party app users may leave has nothing but good consequences in their eyes (less resources spent on free users), and if even 1% of those convert to their 1st party apps or website that’s a net gain for them

But the problem is those people are potential content creators. They are arguably more advanced users, and therefore more likely to create content. And that content drives engagement, which drives ads.