He’s not going to. He’s so full of shit his eyes are brown.

TPM actually provides some useful components to isolate encryption outside of Ring 0, which is a trust win. But any technology must be weighted against its power to oppress.

There goes my hopes dashed

The fact that there never was a limit of sub counts is part of why the turnover we expected never came. At some point, you have to be a deeply unwell narcissist to willingly mod hundreds of subs. I’m reminded of Laurelai.

So this confirms all the studies and adages of conservative voters being less intelligent, more subject to scams and fraud, and less accepting of social norms.

No, it is entirely voting for Trump/DeSantis if I stay home. And it will be the consequence. My patience for the Dems to fix things, as impossible as it is, is running out. I am ready to let the accelerationsists have their fun and leave us a burning husk of a world. Let the heavens fall.

…I may change my mind on this when the time comes.

I’m just frustrated that i’ve been above the board in every possible way, empathetic, nice, and compassionate, just like I was raised to be; and the world has become jaded and bitter, and a few rich fucks have doomed our future. I can’t keep doing this forever. My desire for revenge grows.

I’m afraid he will do this. And this will cost him the election.

I won’t vote for him if he interferes, btw.

I haven’t been able to post a comment on The Verge since the redesign. Huh.

Anyways: All of spez’s spedding can be explained easily enough: He is in IPO exit mode. He wants out of this business so he can go be a piece of shit.

He really thinks he can get the valuation on reddit. I’m here to tell him he’s delusional. The window came and went with the interest rates. An adjusted value with a new S-1 is going to be a serious write down on the real value and that’s when his days are numbered.

He basically upset 5% of the user base and even that small amount has done irreversible harm to reddit. Everyone knows he wants out. Everyone knows he’s fudging MDAUs. Everyone knows reddit has never been profitable. Was it worth it, you tumbling duckweed?

Valve is lawsuit averse. They sacked NFT games and AI generated games for similar reasons.

By the same extent, Valve is so based.

I stopped caring the moment they dropped PvE.

Can’t engage with the site if they block me from engaging with it.

…don’t they have wireless emergency alerts?

We’ll quickly see if reddit does what every other company does with chargebacks and bans accounts that do it.

I’ve had people working at Reddit tell me that old.reddit is so buried in there its removal would be hard. Which doesn’t change the fact that they would pull it out of necessary. I’m guessing they’ll find the routes for it and 301 anything to the new reddit. Easy enough change.

Oof. Even Google gives its products a longer runway than reddit does.

All these high visibility features shutting down has to come from a single point. I’m guessing they are cutting features with high AWS costs.

With the collapse of social media, there’s not going to be many new users to claim.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the investors behind the scenes aren’t already interviewing spez’s ouster without his knowledge.

If only his common sense applied to running reddit.

Paying their users for content is actually a good thing on paper. In fact, it counteracts the largest argument over API charges that I had: That they were gonna make more than per MDAU via ads, but have the audacity to keep all of it, while not even giving the users that provide it nary a crumb.

The problem with this is: What is a fair price for user generated content? What is a fair redistribution based on DAUs and activity? Is there even a fair model? How could you guarantee it when there will be cabals to provide content at a certain level, as was seen when blogrings tried it in the late 2000s?

Unfortunately, there’s no easy answer, because reddit will always give the least amount they can endure, especially as they are not profitable. And when they are, they will bargain down because they need cheap UGC to function. Such a system is probably going to be unfair by philosophy and design.

They had the good part of a month to understand.