True. Remember that this is the internet and social media to boot. Those two things mean nuance is unwelcome.

100% agree that voting is the bare minimum. Also, I don’t believe anyone should think that’s a radical position.

I’ll argue that almost everyone in lemmy knows that both parties serve the same billionaire class interests.

Despite that being true, the week before elections isnt really the time for people to dissuade others from voting. It’s certainly not the time to listen to non-American Accelerationist. Meow that the elections over, we should all be talking about progressive grassroots candidates. This is exactly the time to communicate, educate, and organize. That includes sparking the revolution.

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I was wondering how Google would pivot since they made their own search business obsolete. Extortion it is!

force google to shoot themselves and make a new generation not use their nonsense. let google pull the trigger

Might be in the name?

They are looking for these because of a vulnerability in a Graphene OS fork that will give them access and insight into the activity of already well known criminals. I am not sure why OP is suggesting a razzia on Graphene users, linking to an article behind a paywall from one of the biggest sensation and ragebait selling newspapers here in the Netherlands.

I'm looking at the translation and they're seizing phones from the underworld - like the drug trafficking and human trafficking underworld? Isn't against graphene in particular...

I assume I'm supposed to think critically in this particular community.

You love to see it

Washington is very much into censorship, thought control, manipulation, extorting bribes from corps to protect their interests.. that’s harder to do with American models if Chinese ones offer free alternatives that aren’t manipulated in the way Washington wants or was bribed to regulate into the models.

I used to moderate a subredded and all I ever did was ban one user who kept posting really badly produced long and rambling flat Earth videos. It was funny for a while, but he posted them all of the time.

I think other than that there was a automatic restriction where you couldn't post until you had x amount of karma points, which took care of like 99% of bots. That was pretty much the extent to the moderation that was required anything else would have been excessive.

Yeah that was stupid. If people have to log into view content then it doesn't matter what Google is doing.

The user count isn’t helped by my own strategy.

I have Firefox configured to an inch of its life to be just functional enough for Reddit and a handful of other sites. This is on purpose, to limit my exposure vector while still letting the sites be useful for me.

I do most of my research and non-site-specific surfing on Waterfox, which is locked down even further.

That way, I cannot accidentally reach a Reddit link on an organic search.

Now granted, Reddit will still “die” for me on the day they turn off Old Reddit, as I will absolutely refuse to use New Reddit. But hey.

"I like popcorn."

-Some fucking Reddit admin once upon a time.

"oh no, the AI is actually bad for us noooooo. Pls don't scrape anymore I can't handle it noooo"

• jiz (spez nickname, derogatory)

Rather apropos username, and I'm here for it! Clock those scurrying critters, hoarding like it'll save them from the order of things, and clue their comeuppances to those hidey-holes. ☝🏼 Wise, vigilant hawk type person. 😃

So, about when they're filing for a bail-out, then. 🤮

Everything eventually becomes AOL.

Post API bullshit Reddit is markedly different as well. It's noticeably dumber, with a much more similar feel at times to Facebook comments and YouTube comments than what it had been known for in the past. The 'spark' that made Reddit worth visiting is now really only found on the much, much smaller subs and even there it's growing more rare by the day.

I don't think we're seeing the effects of that particular nonsense yet, it's relatively recent.

Expect the numbers to have fallen even more next time they report them.

For the no-ads-in-apps problem, Reddit could have just done something to limit third-party apps to users who subscribed to Reddit Premium, since they don't get ads anyway. Making the apps pay instead was completely meant to fuck over the apps, not recover the ad revenue.

And Reddit was supposed massively overcharging for the lost ad revenue:

[Apollo developer Christian] Selig links to a CNBC report from 2019 that estimated Reddit earns 30 cents a year per user and says Reddit’s API pricing would work out to about $2.50 per user per month or $30 a year.

Selig estimated it would cost $20 million per year to keep Apollo running, and while Apollo did have an optional subscription, he almost certainly wasn't making that kind of money.

I always hated bots on reddit, but that was more like a managable infection. Then Reddit added Persona identity verification for accessing NSFW content. That was fatal.

The truth will always break free eventually.

Don't use reddit directly. Don't give fascist enablers a single cent.

https://redlib.catsarch.com/

I think it really started with the API bullshit a few years back. Reddit ran ads and they made money. Then they got greedy and added more. People made apps that bypassed the ads. Reddit lost a little money, so they ran even more ads. This drove more people to the third-party apps. What Reddit should have done was limited their API to so many calls a day so that third-party apps would only be able to do so much. Then let them either show ads to get more views/calls to the API, or let the user pay a very low fee. Instead what they did was, accused a popular developer of extortion. They did not count on the guy recording the call and posting it online, which is not really something a professional does. But this developer wasn't a great guy either, though he made a good app. He was charging a monthly fee to use his app, and he wasn't giving Reddit any of that money. So Reddit was not in a good place. Had cooler heads prevailed, maybe there would have been a better outcome. People would be either dealing with ads, or paying a couple bucks a month to get rid of them.

Paying Reddit would have only gotten rid of the ads, though. It would not have shielded you at all from toxic users and especially not from toxic moderators. That was another problem they would have had to address if they didn't screw themselves over their greed.

They didn't just remove pro-Palestine users. They went after anyone who spoke out about the Trump-Epstein class. I got a permanent ban just for saying people who harm children should face longer prison sentences. I didn't even name Trump or Epstein. So by requiring users to be signed in, they can't even make money off me when I click through from a Google search. I don't mind not being able to vote/comment because I've found a home on Lemmy/dbzer0, but Reddit is still a valuable resource. By banning anyone who disagrees with the way the politicians the admins support, and then by saying you have to be logged in to see the site, they're shooting themselves in the foot and this graph isn't surprising. And sure, they'll blame Biden and the left, but will they invite us back? Will they overturn the bans? Will they open their API up to third-party apps at a reasonable rate? Will they even begin to address their toxic user base and moderation system? I fear that ship has sailed.