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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'd rather they be thorough, and I expect their technical resources are a bit constrained. (Plus, I'm pretty sure the user-facing site is or was built in Ruby, and I have no idea what security best practices are for that.)

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[–] esc@piefed.social 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

Realistically it can't take this long if the person working on it has knowledge required, it might be just a generous estimate or they are going for full backup restoration from some kind of very slow cold storage.

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[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago

If it was a data breach, they may be doing forensics to see if the backups are also infected.

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 4 days ago (1 child)

If we were talking about people for whom this was their job, I would agree that they were being way slow, but we're talking about a group of volunteers who're cramming this into their free time along with all their other obligations. In that situation, it sometimes takes as long as it takes.

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[–] esc@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago*

I'm not saying that they aren't working hard, might be some other circumstances are preventing them from re-deploying/fixing it, in my experience with infrastructure work cutting single task into smaller chunks staggered over time actually makes it harder.

Again there are probably other factors there and it's not simple 're-deploy older version' kind of task.

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[–] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

What’s the deal with the hate for Wattpad?

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

You'd have to dig deeper, but I've heard that they've banned multiple types of content. I'll let you know if I find out something about it.

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[–] Tehhund@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

We can still read it on the Wayback Machine, but yeah it's not the same if you want to write or read something new.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

My partner is planning to start using the Grimmory (ebook reader) instance I set up on our home network, when AO3 is back up. I suspect this has been a wake up call for a lot of fans that media is not safe in one centralized place.

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[–] Deyis@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wasn't the point of AO3 that nowhere else was willing to host it?

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

No, just no corporate-owned users-as-a-product site. Millions of people are willing (and already do) host downloaded files from AO3 on their phones and computers. That's redundancy.

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[–] Deyis@beehaw.org 1 point 4 days ago

They're hosting the content from their phones for other users? What's the mechanism for that because that sounds really useful.

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[+] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com -6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Seeing how fandom gets undone in less than three days because the content junkies can’t get their fix (and it’s gonna be 4 weeks) has been entertaining (not).

While some people have expressed the sentiment of “when AO3 is back we are going to tell the writers how much we missed them”, the majority response I’ve seen, as gauged on r/ao3 even, is “fuck you and your consent if you don’t get me my fix, I’m gonna pirate your fic upload it to Google for them to use them with AI”. Much of the fandom have literally revealed themselves to be techbros.

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[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 11 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Do you think that this "majority response" is in any way representative of the user base on that site? Have you considered that the kind of person who responds like this is nothing but a very loud outlier?

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 days ago

That's why I said the majority response I've seen, and it's on those specific places which - yeah, are Reddit.

But an outlier being loud or not is not the issue. The proof is in the pudding as they say, and the fact that those """archives""" are made and people pass them around means people want them.

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Do you think that every fic on ao3 is not already in AI training data?

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 days ago

No, but why would that matter? That's damage already done. I'm speaking about damage to do, and the kinds of people who care so little about those writers they can't "live with" that they would cause such damage.

Just because someone stole an item from your house, does not make it correct or fair for other people to invite themselves in and do the same.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

People seem to have strong feelings about Wattpad. What did they do?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

As a reader, it's a bad experience finding anything but bad fanfic. When you finally do, it's a bad reading experience.

As a writer, it's too easy to get buried by bad fanfic, and the tools are absolute dogshit.

As a leftist, it's obvious that capitalist exploitation is underway, with enshittification progressing normally

That being said, it could be worse. If all you want is a place to post shit to have a link to share with bare minimum effort, it works well enough.

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[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 4 points 5 days ago

Company type Subsidiary

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[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 1 point 5 days ago

mirror mirror on the wall, whose the mirror of them all⸮

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Could that website (404 media) be any worse?

Even with ublock it has multiple popups, most of the content is spread out past multiple different articles to try and get you to read something else.

Atrocious.

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[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 4 days ago

It somehow ended up on my "no javascript allowed" list in my browser. Some images are missing, but I don't get the feeling I'm missing anything important. And it's super fast!

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 days ago

Do you have the correct filter lists set? I saw some ads, bu nowhere near an inconvenient amount.