It’s not sudden, it’s been garbage for a while.

I think all propaganda is equally bad. Putting certain ones on pedestals because “At least it isn’t XYZ” doesn’t jive with me, and it distracts from the real issue.

False equivalence and whataboutism is not helping anyone.

Yeah, and they’ve also had more explicit efforts like America’s Army. That being said, while it is propaganda, it’s not quite as deceptive and pro-warcrimes as what Russia’s putting out there.

They’re a small company, they’ll probably just go bankrupt.

They weren’t normally on the same network, but were accidentally put on the same network during migration.

Just call up Linustechtips and ask to collab on a zetabyte project. Probably get the storage drives for free, right?

/s

Moreover, killing Youtube will be harder than killing any of these social media. Serving video content is very expensive.

170 is a fairly substantial sample size, but it does pose challenges with data interpretation when there’s no intervention and the expected effect size is small.

Life sciences often uses much smaller sample sizes, but with intervention.

At the absolute minimum, the headline here should be “found no evidence of” rather than “do not”. The good old absence of evidence vs. evidence of absence thing.

Ads are making a comeback on streaming services. Not only Youtube, which is now getting more serious about blocking ad-blockers, but even on paid streaming. Netflix has an ad supported tier, Amazon runs ads for its own stuff (so far)…

Firefox is behind in some areas, but ahead in others - eg. privacy/tracking.

I see you’re getting downvoted, and I do have to agree that it’s a pretty optimistic take. With traffic even a tenth what reddit gets, the costs would be significant.

Now it’s true that eg. Wikipedia can handle massive server load on a donation model, but I think the utility from Wikipedia is more obvious and more amenable to attracting donations. I think it’s a good idea to think about palatable monetization options early on, so we can avoid ending up in a situation where the experience has to suddenly get degraded by intrusive ads or whatever.

Plus AI companies can just scrape reddit without using the API. It’s still a website after all.

It’s funny how he’s playing this out to be about third party apps like Apollo. Like yeah, that’s what the community cares about, but the reason they’re making the changes is because he’s fucking anal about OpenAI and other companies finding such success with products they have built using data scraped via the Reddit API.

The data could just be scraped without the API anyway.

LMFAO that ship has fucking sailed. They already used Reddit data through 2021 and got everything they needed for free. Huffman is locking the barn after the horses are already out, and setting it on fire. What a fucking dumbass.

Plus they can just scrape the data without using the API. It’s a red herring, just a lie to cover up his desire to kill third party apps.

How could you do this to Bella

Elon Musk made me jump to Mastodon. Spez made me jump to Lemmy.

could result in the social media company’s trust and safety teams being crippled

If they weren’t already…