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  • This is also slightly off. It was primarily to eliminate third party apps from the existing landscape. Reddit want money from users in one of two ways:

    1. Use their app and pay with your data via invasive tracking and advertising.
    2. Pay for a third party app that pays them for API access.

    Due to the extortionate pricing, (2) was only ever hypothetical. In reality there was no sustainable model for this for any third party app, even as a non-profit.

    The case around AI does exist, but it was smoke and mirrors for Reddit pulling the same nonsense that Twitter did once they realized they might get away with it, regardless of the short term damage it would do to their public image.




  • As a software user, you can either care about your privacy or not. Caring about your privacy and not either vetting what you’re planning to use or checking that someone else has before using it, is akin to sticking your hand in a fire to find out if it’s hot.

    Taking that analogy further, malicious open source software is kind of like a burning building. It only takes one person to raise the flag for it to spread pretty quickly through social media or other means that it is malicious. The whole community doesn’t need to acknowledge the fire for something to be done about it.






  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe fediverse, explained
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    9 months ago

    The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.

    NO. NO, NO, NO.

    That isn’t what it fucking is at all! It’s not another open standard for five companies to abuse until they’re the only sound that you can hear because they’re drowning everything else out.

    I know they’re trying to appeal to the layman but, I dunno, try harder maybe?

    Not everything in life is about posturing and followers. The best parts of the fediverse are anonymous and unadulterated by corporate interests and having advertising rammed down your throat every 5 seconds. that’s what killed the open web.