I wonder if Britain will rejoin the EU. Perhaps it might happen. But I guess it will take a few years before politicians are willing to consider that.
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Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless15·2 years agoNo user of Reddit is powerless. Every single user of Reddit has the power to fuck with Reddit in whatever legal way they want, and they also they have the power to quit using Reddit.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Reddit@lemmy.world•[THE VERGE] The statement Reddit gave us is the oldest trick in the book.8·2 years agoHe’s right that Reddit’s “aggressive posture” is what’s annoyed a lot of users. When I first heard of them adding API costs, I didn’t care, because I didn’t use 3rd party apps. But their attitude since then is why I don’t want to use Reddit now.
They could have apologised for the inconvenience caused by their changes. They could have said something like “we recognise there are users who are not happy with these changes, and we apologise for the inconvenience, but we are in a position where we have to cover our server costs, or else Reddit may not survive into the future”. If they had put it like THAT then I bet most people would have understood where they’re coming from.
But instead they say things like “oh it’s only a small amount of users who are unhappy” and “this will blow over like all of these controversies do”. Basically saying “we don’t need to listen to you, fuck you, fuck your opinions, we assume you’ll use Reddit anyway”. AND didn’t they say they would respect mods protesting by shutting their subreddits? And then they’re like “no fuck you we’ll just force them open”.
So the impression they give off is not that they’re doing these API changes out of a financial necessity to ensure Reddit can survive into the future - instead, like many users have said, it seems like they are literally just trying to milk as many profits as possible in the short-term, so they can cash in as much as possible on the IPO, and then they can quit Reddit and retire to the Caribbean.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Owners destroyed the soul of their own house1·2 years agoMaybe they plan to park cars there.
Or maybe they just don’t like cutting the grass. Can’t blame them. I hate having to cut the grass all the time.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto World News@beehaw.org•‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’13·2 years agoHe’ll be remembered for breaking rules yes, but he won’t be remembered “as an innovator”.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto News@kbin.social•"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says26·2 years agoMaybe they had early warning signs that something was wrong with the sub. Maybe it imploded later. Dunno.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto sh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight3·2 years agoIt’s meant to be a decentralised version of Twitter. I think it was originally made by Twitter but is now a separate company.
But I don’t think it uses the ActivityPub protocol that Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon use, so it won’t be interoperable with them. Also, it’s invite-only for the moment. So if you want a decentralised Twitter-like experience right now, you could use Mastodon.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto News@kbin.social•"We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else5·2 years agoPeople are greedy for money and power. Like the Reddit CEO.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Technology@kbin.social•'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S.5·2 years agoI bet this will be very expensive though. It will probably be years before it costs the same, or less than, regular meat.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Technology@kbin.social•Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest19·2 years agoMeta is a capitalist social media company and they seem to be doing okay. Facebook might be uncool with the kids these days but it’s still massive. And Instagram and WhatsApp are still very popular.
I think the difference between Meta and Reddit is that I bet Meta would issue some sort of apology and carefully crafted PR if they found themselves in Reddit’s current situation. But Reddit doesn’t even seem to care about angering its users, which just feeds the anger more.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Reddit Migration@kbin.social•/r/bestofredditorupdates has been forced open after users voted to keep it closed indefinitely. They're currently running a poll on whether to become another John Oliver sub.16·2 years agoHere’s a link to the same post on Teddit, an alternative front-end to Reddit, to read the same post:
Viewing it this way means you’re not giving Reddit traffic.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialOPto News@kbin.social•Alexei Navalny: Putin critic defiant as new trial begins1·2 years agoThe US government hasn’t shut down the KKK though. Unless I’m wrong, I don’t think it’s possible to shut down political groups in the US, due to the first amendment.
So I think that would be a big difference between the US and Russia. Russia bans organisations it considers “extremist”, but I don’t think the US does.
Also, Russia is arresting people for expressing opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, even in private conversations. I don’t think the US arrested people who expressed opposition to the Iraq War - a war which Russia-supporters seem to love comparing the invasion of Ukraine to.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Україна | Ukraine 🇺🇦@lemmy.ml•PSA: this subs mods are inactive and Vatnik propaganda is being pushed. Please use the other Ukraine sub1·2 years agoJust took a quick look at your profile and I notice this:
the US is building a geopolitical tool next to Russia’s borders (obviously against Russia)
Yeah you’re a vatnik.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Reddit Migration@kbin.social•All mods of /r/self and /r/shittylifeprotips were removed and suspended for 7 days without any warning first.25·2 years agoIs there actually a particular rule against turning SFW subs into NSFW subs?
Or is Reddit just desperately trying to interpret their rules in whatever way they desire because they’re panicking at losing revenue?
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Reddit Migration@kbin.social•Well shit, they're even going after tiny not-so-active subs like mine17·2 years agoIt’s just manipulation of course. They’re trying to guilt-trip mods into doing what Reddit wants. Reddit’s concern here is obviously not for the poor innocent users being deprived their access to these subreddits. Reddit’s concern is maximising the amount of cash that flows into their pockets.
If Reddit actually cared about the users then they would respect the subreddits where users have voted to keep the subreddit private or change the subreddit to NSFW content. But Reddit is not respecting these votes from users, because they only care about the cash flowing into their pockets.
I looked at Lemmy.world then Kbin.
I went with Kbin because Lemmy keeps pulling new threads onto the top of the home page feed. This pushes down content on the home page as you’re trying to read it. And I just don’t want it to be constantly pulling in new data, especially if I’m doing other stuff and my browser is just in the background.
Untitled9999@kbin.socialto Reddit Migration@kbin.social•Reddit's response about the actions they took against the subreddits (note: r/mildly interesting DID NOT encourage nsfw content and their suspensions and removal have been revoked by a diff admin)9·2 years agoReddit’s response to everything over the last week or however long it has been:
“Fuck you, we don’t care about you, we want to line our pockets, we literally think of users as dirt, we expect you to bow down and kiss our shoes”
It would be cool if you could see stuff from other servers/instances without someone from your server/instance interacting with it first, yes.
At the moment I am personally not complaining though. I am sure the developers have tons of things they’re trying to work on at the moment. And I can still see stuff from other instances/servers.
I wipe sitting. I think most people probably do. Standing up will push your arse cheeks together, so the poo inside the crack will just smear everywhere.
As for bidets, I don’t use them. They’re very rare in my country. I just wipe with toilet paper. I try to get my arse as clean as possible with the toilet paper, so I wipe multiple times.
Thank you for reading my post about my pooing habits.