I haven’t been to youtube.com or opened the app in ages. I switched to FreeTube and haven’t looked back. That’ll last until they restrict API access, anyway.

They tested that on me months ago and I downloaded FreeTube in response. Haven’t looked back. Fuck them for trying to tell me what I can and can’t do.

That’s all any tech demo is. They have to draw interest in order to continue developing the technology.

Tech news sites quietly use this word too much

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Ironic coming from a guy who uses a very clear formula on the majority of his movies.

Yep, I agree with this take. As much as I feel social media is a detriment to the human species and especially children, I think it should be up to the parents to regulate that. We have more important things to spend our tax dollars on than endless regulation for problems which will continue to exist in any case.

It’s hilarious to me that people are willing to accept that technology can come as far as producing an LLM of the caliber of ChatGPT, but they can’t fathom that it will continue to iterate and get better. It may be “bad” at certain writing styles right now, but give it some time. Think about how far it’s already come for us to even be having this conversation.

I think it’s more about the price point. If you want people to pay $1000+ for a piece of tech, it needs to be more useful than just a camera.

Not bad, been a good day actually. I have today and tomorrow off for the holiday, so it’s been a nice long weekend.

I woke up early and did my meditation, then stretched and got a good workout in. Then did the dishes and mopped kitchen floor. That left me feeling quite productive and totally justified in sparking up the bong and playing video games for the last few hours.

For what it’s worth, this is exactly how Reddit was in the early days. I remember a niche sub being something that had maybe 30-50 members, now basically every subject has a subreddit with communities in the 5000+ range.

Just give it time. If there is a particular community you’re missing, use this as an opportunity to start it over here and start getting people involved.

My opinion is that if Reddit was really concerned about the preservation of their data, they would keep their API open and encourage 3rd-party interactions with their platform.

I think scrambling your data is not only justified, it’s the correct form of protest.

Well, this particular Magazine is called /m/RedditMigration so it would be kind of hard to not discuss Reddit here…

Does it? I hadn’t noticed, I haven’t been over there in quite a while.

The harshness is intentional because Reddit is gearing up to aim themselves at a new audience. They know that they are going to lose a big chunk of their users - they want that. Those of us who were using third party apps were probably the least convertible in terms of profit.

The mentality is our way or the highway, and in this case they win no matter what because for every one of us they lose, they are going to gain 20x. They want those TikTok numbers, and this is how they plan to get there

Yeah, this is something I thought about as soon as the blackout started. I am in the IT world and as soon as it happened, it got really difficult to find certain bits of crucial information, because those bits of info were stored within Reddit comments.

Anyone in the tech world can tell you that besides Stack Overflow and Github, Reddit is right up there among the most leaned-on tech resources these days. Never before was there a bigger forum of tech people discussing their work. Those results were suddenly, instantly no longer valid, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who noticed that. This is part of why Reddit was scrambling to open subs back up - if more than 2 or 3 weeks went by, Google would have removed those listings from the search.

I’m pretty content with KBin. As time goes on the content level will increase and hopefully remain at a level which makes it easy to curate my feed and reduce noise. Truth be told Reddit has been getting worse for a long time and being here reflects that. This feels a lot like what Reddit felt like 10 years ago.

Oh, are Lemmy and Kbin the only Reddit Alternatives?

What a fantastic way to phrase “we don’t have a public release anywhere near ready yet”. They need to give that PR person a raise.