Aka, “We don’t care enough about accessibility to pay anyone to do it for us”
It’s hilarious really. Christian has the fucking receipts. Spez can say what he wants, but it’s meaningless drivel.
Yeah, this.
And the beauty of this approach is that the community of users is necessarily smaller, so more likely to actually be a community.
Oblig. fuck u/spez
Well, the AMA was a shining success…
As a podcast lover, you'll have to take RSS from my cold, dead hands.
If a show is only available in a walled garden, and not via RSS as a whole, then it's not a podcast, it's a show.
To be fair, I'm not really the Twitch target I guess. I've only ever used it twice; once to watch my wife playing a game, and once to watch a stream of a bird feeder in Cape Town for some nice background sound while I was working.
But I guess part of my disinterest is due to the fuckery with Wade.
All I really know about Twitch is that Dankpods fucked them off a while back in favour of Float Plane because they randomly de-monetised him and wouldn't talk to him.
I won't lie, I dig this. Yes, there appear to be some issues that make it less than perfect, but it's a gen 1 product. When I buy into this, it'll likely be around gen 3, same as it was with iPhone.
But I don't like what Apple is. I don't like how quickly they're making formerly class-leading products obsolete these days. I think of the iPhone X, and how it was "the most advanced iPhone yet", and their promises of how future-proofed it was, only for it to suffer from OS rot just a few short years later. It's not planned obsolescence as such, it's just tech rushing along at a breathtaking pace. But it still leaves me uncomfortable at how expensive it is to feel like the device you use is still relevant.
So it leaves me feeling that people who spend $3500 on a Vision Pro will have a very expensive paperweight within four years. A paperweight whose pretensions to 'Pro' work will never really reach any further than the iPad Pro. Because until Apple can refine the tech to make it more profitable and mainstream than a Mac, they will nerf the software somehow, making users need both. They did it to iPad, they'll do it Vision.
Mastodon feels much the same way Twitter did back when I first joined, which is nice.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
Seriously though, it's sad what's happened to Twitter over the years. I remember joining it back in '08 while I was at uni. It was a great, fun way to connect with people from all walks of life, to hear different viewpoints and learn new things.
But I guess we all got high on being able to have a voice, and began getting louder and louder. Then Twitter engineered it so that we'd see people outside our bubble and it just became a huge, never-ending flamewar of opinions and diatribes. It really fucked my mental health, tbh. Realising that you get most of your interactions from being snarky makes you double down on the snark, so you start looking for things to be shitty about, or you spend all the time thinking about the shittiest thing you can say to "the enemy".
Before you know it, you're as much of a shithead as the people you're yelling at, but with the added bonus of thinking you're being righteous.
Now I use Mastodon all the time. Sure, there's snark, but I try to avoid it, and actively work towards being a more positive voice on there.
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I think the way I see it is that the vast majority of Reddit users have no idea that any of this is going on, and wouldn’t care if they did.
So from Corporate’s perspective, all they have to do is deal with a few weeks of whining and teeth gnashing, before everything calms down again and they can get on with whoring Reddit out.
Ultimately they’ll end up back in the black again, and making enough money from the IPO to not give the tiniest rats ass about any of this. They’ll sail off into the sunset on a fleet of expensive yachts, and never give Reddit another thought.