I’ll copypaste an interesting comment here:

[Stephen Smith] This article is a great example of a trend I don’t think companies realize they’ve started yet: They have killed the golden goose of user-generated content for short-term profit. // Who would willingly contribute to a modern-day YouTube, Reddit, StackOverflow, or Twitter knowing that they are just feeding the robots that will one day replace them?

You don’t even need robots replacing humans, or people believing so. All you need is people feeling that you’re profiting at their expense.

Also obligatory “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product”.

Macanudo time? Macanudo time!

1. Martincito has no friends.
2. Until an imaginary person appears.
3. They say that they’re called: Olga.
4. And they have no friends either. [Speech bubble: “Hi Olga.”]
5. Now Olga and Martincito are friendless together.

1. Do you like this dress, Madariaga? (Madariaga is the teddy bear.)
2. It’s my favourite.
3. Which are your fav…
4. :O
5. Madariaga! You’re naked!
6. Fellini! (Fellini is the cat.)
7. Have you noticed that Madariaga is naked? He doesn’t wear cl…
8. You too!
9. And why would I cover this masterpiece?

That’s good news. Odds are that some of those people will go back to closed media platforms after ~2 months; but the ones who stay help Mastodon and the Fediverse to grow.

That’s one of my cats.

The other wants to be cuddled 25h/day.

I left Debian but Debian didn’t leave me, it seems…

I’d gladly post Batatinha’s pics if he was my dog, but my cousin would probably get annoyed, it’s a privacy matter.

But, basically: picture a huge dog. By “huge” I mean, he probably weights 40kg or so. Mostly black, with some tan; it doesn’t follow the same pattern as the Rottweiler or the German shepherd, it’s different. Short hair, floppy ears. Rather intimidating, I wouldn’t go anywhere close to that dog without my uncle or my cousin nearby.

My relatives do it all the time. On purpose. Cue to

• Átila - named after Attila the Hun.
• Batatinha - roughly “little potato”.

Guess who’s the toy poodle and who’s the shepweiler.

Federation woes?

Your comment has a different take though, and adding value to the discussion, it isn’t just the same as I said. Both are complementary.

Even more accurately: it’s bullshit.

“Lie” implies that the person knows the truth and is deliberately saying something that conflicts with it. However the sort of people who spread misinfo doesn’t really care about what’s true or false, they only care about what further reinforces their claims or not.

AI sheep.

…fuck, now I get what you meant! Sorry I kind of ruined your joke.

(I’m one of those primitives still taking raw air all the time. Just seasoned with a bit pollution, mmnh, tasty NOx)

I got an air fryer this year, and I definitively recommend it. It was cheap, I paid 350 reals (roughly 70 euros). In some cases the food is really similar to deep-fried food, but the biggest appeal of the device is as a small but powerful oven - specially for stuff like

• chicken wings - they turn out wet but well cooked, with a crispy outside
• reheating stale bread - pat it with a bit of water, then plop it in the air fryer.
• frozen potato fries - as he mentions in the video they get damn great
• milanesa - it doesn’t get identical to deep-fried milanesa but it’s really good, and way better than doing it in the oven.

If looking for a model make sure to get one with a detachable false bottom, otherwise you’ll get the problem andrewta mentioned and won’t be able to clean it right.

Yup. And that’s still damn useful.

That’s the whole point of the video.

Predictable outcome for anyone not wallowing in wishful belief.

I’m still bitter about the SSP/SMP merge. 1.2.5 runs so good.

Petition to keep Chile in place because I need my semi-cheap booze and if they’re moved as a bridge between Spain and Canada I’ll need to pay more for that booze.

Easier: n(13-n).

In this context “politics” clearly conveys “things directly related to governments, such as wars, elections, or socio-economical ideologies”. It is only a subset of the definition of politics that you’re probably using, something like “things direct or indirectly related to human groups and their conflicts of interest”.

We got a whole Lemmy to talk about Israel vs. Hamas, late stage capitalism, elections etc. We could - and should - have at least one community to chill and talk about other stuff, and without that rule we won’t have it. For example without that rule 99.99999% of the content as of late 2024 would be about Trump, as if Americans didn’t have multiple communities to talk about it already.

I agree that Reddit will become irrelevant to internet power users. However, I disagree that it takes a massive fuckup to lose the critical mass of users.

A simple way to explain this is to imagine that everyone has an individual “I’m pissed and I leave” threshold; if a platform displeases a user more than that threshold, they leave.

For power users, this threshold is really low, so they ditch platforms like Reddit faster. However, that does not mean that the others aren’t getting displeased - they do; it might not be enough to convince them to leave, but it quickly piles up with other things displeasing them.

As such, even a large platform can lose that critical mass of users over time, even without a massive fuckup. It’s just about small things piling up.

Another thing to consider is that power users are more important to a platform than the rest of the userbase, because the power users interact with the platform more. And they’re typically the ones doing janny crap, or finding and sharing content, or that actually have anything meaningful to add instead of “lol lmao”. So once the power users leave, the platform becomes less desirable for the others too, and that’s recursive - as the power users leave, the almost-power users leave too, then the ones after them, so goes on. And there the critical mass goes down the drain.

My guess: there won’t be a specific date that you can poinpoint and say “Reddit died here”. It’ll be a slow decline, with small outbursts of re-engagement. Something like this:

Profit will follow a similar pattern, as both things are intertwined.