WhipTheLlama

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Canada shouldn't become a country where the government decides what we see, hear, and do. They already meddle in that too much, and blocking websites that aren't engaging in illegal activity is absurd. Will they block the Fediverse next?

All Meta is doing here is complying with the new law. The government said "pay to link to news sites or stop linking to them" and that's exactly what Meta is doing. It's another stupid law pushed by corporate Canada for their own benefit, and now they're surprised at the most obvious outcome.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

It's at a gay bar, but it's also an official employee event, which is weird. I wonder what the expectations are for employees to attend official events. For me, whether it's a drag show or bowling, I don't attend most after-hours work events.

Google is still sponsoring the event, it's just not an employee event anymore. That's probably how it should have been planned from the beginning.

That said, thin-skinned Christians can not attend if it's an optional event. The bible is silent about drag shows.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huffman claims it's about things like LLM training that uses the API, as if it isn't possible to validate apps that want to use the API and only issue keys for approved apps. This could save third party apps while preventing bad actors from gaining access to the data without scraping the site.

No, if bad actors were the problem then the solution would be much different.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

In that nfl thread, is it an old mod or a new one who re-opened it? Reddit is replacing the mods who shut down their subreddits with people who will re-open them.

There was always a substantial number of people who didn't care about the API. They probably only used the official app and are newer Reddit users. They were also probably not around for other mass migrations, such as from Digg to Reddit, so they don't treat Reddit any different than Facebook, where they put up with whatever bad changes are made because they see it as the only option, as if it will always be the internet's main news aggregator.

Anyone who's been around for a long time knows that Internet communities are ephemeral, so what's really popular today won't be in 10 years. It's more than people moving from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit. Search engines used to aggregate news on their home page, and lots of people used RSS feeds or StumbleUpon. The history of the Internet is splashed with sites like Reddit, and every time one dies, another pops up that is more popular.

I'm amazed that Reddit has lasted as long as it has. Whether this is its death or not, I cannot tell, but it seems clear that its days of dominance are waning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You should print one in TPU so it's soft, then put it in a glass container with a safe to handle liquid so it looks like a real brain preserved in formaldehyde. Then you can reach in and pull out the brain and ask who wants to hold it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hosting sfw video is just not profitable on the scale that youtube does it

Youtube had $28.8b in revenue in 2021. While revenue isn't profit, I can't imagine it's losing money with that much revenue. It'd be hard for someone else to duplicate it, but not impossible if they have a strong business plan from the start.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

inability to advertise to 3P users

And this isn't even strictly true. Reddit could have given 3P apps the option to pay a reasonable price for the API, or they had to serve Reddit's ads to avoid paying the fee, it would be a fair compromise.

It sounds to me like Reddit can't profit from ads, even if the 3P apps served them. If that's true, Reddit is doomed, and investors will see that as they approach the IPO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It costs $20m /yr to access the kbin API