DarkMatterStyx

Forgetting everything that’s happened so far, and taking that statement at face value… That is exactly how things should have always worked…

Make *****, get eXpOsUrE. How in the hell did the internet turn into we pay for access; we use it to socialize, share art, ideas, answers, make connections. And now they are not only making money selling our data, but we’re expected to pay for their crap content they scraped from our own data?

I think you forgot a crucial step… Bots steal actual content, then direct other bots to down vote and report said original content, and then direct said bots to upvote the stolen content.

Their parent company has an ownership stake in Reddit. I’m surprised they have been allowed to be as critical as they have been.

You linked a Chinese website… I love the 1st translated article, go unicorns!

I’m usually one who doesn’t buy into conspiracy theories; however, at this point I believe the Reddit protests actually (I hate this meme) broke the internet.

Reddit was the “idiot cousin that causes minimum annoyance occasionally, that hasn’t really hurt the advertising line much” for so long, that they all became dependent on the free, moderated, and literal fact checked by people it effects data for so long. That now, after the last weeks, of all the deleting, rewriting, restoring, rewriting, restoring, and rewriting again that all their cached data, and reddits “current” data is now worthless.

The super funny thing is, all the AI’s are still pulling data from reddit, they are going to have to cull and sanitize all data and every connection to it, and can also never trust it again… Because many many many people actually care about being part of a community, and will continue to modify/poison their previous comments to keep corps and their mindless “AI” from their “OWNED CONTENT.”

After missing all the memes at the other site in 12+ years, I was actually sorting by new when this one started!

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That is an awesome write up; direct, clear, and not sensationalised! Thank you for taking the time to do that.

I consider the down vote the equivalent of rolling my eyes when listening to an idiot ramble on. However, I can see your point as well.

That was an excellent read, and exactly what I’ve been thinking regarding Meta joining.

Hopefully the get disbarred as well.

I’m completely done with Reddit. The damage is already done. I have been much happier here on Lemmy since the 12th, not planning to leaving anytime soon.

The terrible thing is, it doesn’t matter where you are anymore. The more hateful, shocking, and deplorable things you say, get you more attention now.

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to imagine what WW2 would have been like with today’s internet. On one hand I hope that having real time info on all the horrors would have ended the war sooner with much less death. On the other hand, we have real time info on modern atrocities, and our leaders still just pretend it’s not happening.

I don’t know, I don’t think anyone but the child’s doctor has a right to ask what gender they are. There is not a single rational reason this random guy had to be speaking to this kid.

He’s probay the type that throws a tantrum when a “healthy” looking person uses a handicapped parking space. I can’t fathom how people like this think, are they so “perfect” that they go out looking to be enraged?

Don’t things like this need to be authenticated before they go to auction? Wouldn’t the company that made the watch be involved in such an authentication as well?

They’ll find a way to make that disappear, I’m sure.

I’m super happy with the decision to rename all these bases named after confederate leaders. Should have been done ages ago. I’m sure some subreddits are going nuts over this.

These people are just disgusting. What in the hell does it matter what her gender is? Why not stop being a creep and pay attention to your own child, or stay away from the event if you don’t have one?