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This is the one I'm excited about. I switched from Sync to Boost and never went back as a redditor.

It's a bit like having a conversation with a toddler, to be honest. They'll link together concepts that have no business being together and speak as if they're the rational ones. It won't stay that way though—chat bots are evolving at a frightening speed because the capitalists have learned if you can pretend to be a person on the internet, you can buy votes.

You might like StoryGraph better for that. I switched from Goodreads because I got sick of all the social aspects of the site. I just want to keep track of what I've read and update it so I get a Spotify Wrapped like experience for books—StoryGraph offers that.

They tried to walk it back by only cutting deals with app developers that blind people rely on, like RedReader with its screen reading functionality. But that just highlights how selective reddit is being at working with third party developers. So fuck spez and reddit. I hope the blind community gets everything they meed from their Lemmy instances.

He's a doomsday prepper with a massive bunk. He's actively driving society to the brink thinking bunker living is going to save him and his millions. All it takes is one trigger-happy shotgun wielder to realize your millions mean nothing. But always remember—he's hoping, expecting society as we know it to end in his life time.

My question is how long are they going to let him flounder as CEO? He thinks Musk is doing a great job at Twitter when in reality, there are so few advertisers on the platform that once you block the handful of Amazon bot accounts you have a basically ad-free feed. Before Musk took over, you'd see advertising from trusted brands. Now? It's a video of some useless junk and a link to Amazon to buy it—or weirdly custom t-shirts. That's not good business. Twitter is gasping and dying and the CEO of reddit sees it and goes, "damn, maybe we should be doing that?"

The spez articles are gross, especially the interview on The Verge. He's clearly salty at Christian Selig for building an app that iOS users prefer over the default reddit app. He rails against developers making millions on reddit's content. But its not reddit making the content. Reddit is a content aggregator. Stop aggregating your content there. Stop consuming it there. Reddit dies without its power users.

I love how many of the subreddits are going dark for this protest. The community IS reddit. It is NOT the assholes who took VC-backed money to fleece crypto bros out of money. It's idiotic. I hope everyone understands that you can find quality discussions in the fediverse and leaves reddit accordingly. They're not the gatekeeper of good conversation online.

15-year reddit veteran here. Spez thinks us old-timers are freeloaders for continuing to prefer old.reddit and the third-party apps. The truth is, that site is dead and what Lemmy offers now is closer to that original vision than current reddit ever will be. Reddit is Dead. Long live Lemmy.

Reddit doesn't want to have people browsing from Firefox because it's one of the last privacy conscious browsers available on mobile. They'd rather block you from using the service entirely than allow you to do what they call 'freeloading'—accessing the site without viewing ads or becoming infinitely trackable through the use of their data-sucking app.

People need to understand that this is about tracking your eyeballs. Reddit viewed on a webpage does not provide the metadata they want. What metadata does the app provide? Things you wouldn't think about wanting as a human, but the aggregate is very valuable.

Stuff like how long did you watch that video Ad? Where did you click on screen and at what time? What content were you viewing and what course of action did you take to get there? Web viewing only shows the landing page you arrived on reddit from and the exit page that took you away from reddit. Performing these actions in the app provides metadata cookie crumbs like a trail of roach shit to every single thing you've done on reddit in micro activities.

The forum feature feels half-baked when you have to click through bots to even access the knowledgebase. IDK. I'm old school and from an era of the internet where chat interfaces where chat interfaces and forums were kept separate. I don't appreciate the threading in Discord because it makes past conversations harder to follow, not easier for me.