Boz (he/him) @ Bozicus @lemmy.one

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YEP. The US "corporate personhood" law has always struck me as one of the most on-the-nose examples of dystopian capitalist BS, tbh.

Not that I know of, no. Probably they'll disappear if Reddit deletes the sub, or reappear if they force it back open, so you may just have to sit tight for a few weeks. Is there anything particularly sensitive you want to delete, or are you just trying to get everything?

Apparently, at least one person who works for Mashable got theirs back that way, but not everyone who requested data did.

Honestly, I feel hurt on behalf of the people affected, even though I am not one of them, and I have permanently left Reddit. This is just cruel. Especially since there's reason to believe they basically don't remove public posts and comments.

Iirc an actual announcement said they weren't migrating the older data, though I suppose that doesn't rule out just failing to think of a way to make it work.

Being an asshole who doesn't care about user experience doesn't mean he's not also an idiot and/or trying to hide evidence. I personally agree that the "hiding evidence" in general thing is unlikely, and that deleting all conversations in order to get rid of just a few is extremely unlikely, but I think "idiot" is supported by evidence.

Huffman has actually said publicly that he is inspired by what Elon is doing at Twitter, which, at best, suggests that he doesn't read the news. I don't think there's anyone who thinks Elon is doing a good job except Elon, and there's concrete, objective evidence that this is not true. So unless there's a "getting paid to destroy Reddit deliberately" conspiracy (I have yet to see any convincing argument for that), there's something wrong with the way in which Huffman evaluates information and makes decisions. I won't insist on "idiot" for that kind of lack of brain operation, and you're probably right that there's a pragmatic reason for deleting user conversations,but asshole alone doesn't cover Huffman's recent behavior, IMO.

I'll have to take your word for how Instagram has developed, since I have used Instagram for a total of about 15 minutes, and found it confusing and unpleasant. And it's definitely a good argument for expecting them to shift ground and go for what's left of Reddit, (maybe after they've mopped up what's left of Twitter, which might not take long, since Twitter is busily mopping itself up).

When I say "Instagram in a Twitter skin," I'm going off articles saying that Threads uses Instagram's algorithm, which seems a little less likely to change than the user interface/general style...? I can try to find my exact sources, if you like. It seems like Meta might have business justifications for adding a separate Reddit-replacement service, though there could be equally strong reasons to morph Threads for that purpose. I'm morbidly interested in seeing how it develops.

I would definitely expect purchase tracking to be stricter than ad view metrics, yeah. And I know a lot of companies that used to have customer-friendly return policies have rolled back most or all of those policies (with or without non-enhshittification reasons). So I was at least partly joking, though I am getting less and less surprised about what bots are able to do. AI technology advancement just keeps accelerating.

Good point about brand awareness. In all seriousness, I think there's psychological research suggesting that brand awareness is valuable in and of itself, though I think there's a limit to how negative the publicity can be and still be valuable to brands. Otherwise, I don't think there wouldn't be the concept of "brand safety" for ad placement.

I feel like bots are basically the optimal tool for cheating automated systems, since it seems reasonable to fight automation with more automation, like the cat-and-mouse development race for captcha. I don't have the technical expertise to back that up, though, just a general feeling that Murphy's law applies to all engineering.

…an entire mouse, eh? Obviously this is the ur-text for those ads where someone sticks a smartphone in a blender and only the blender survives.

Username checks out.

Did you see that thread with LLMs telling us what they thought of Reddit? They didn’t say it’s great.

…so the endgame here is bots that can make purchases, but immediately return what they bought for refunds?

Agreed that Threads is sinister, but I think a lot of the reason politicians dislike Tik Tok is that it’s exporting massive quantities of American users’ data to China. US politicians don’t really take it seriously enough to believe that teenagers could use it to start a revolution, but they are pretty sure the Chinese government can use it to spy on Americans.

Not with a 500-character post limit, it’s not. If it decides to change from Instagram in a Twitter suit to Instagram in a Twitter suit in a Reddit flying saucer…?

I’m so sorry. You should spend more time here, where everyone uses language in a completely classy, sublime, and not-at-all-ungrammatical-ever way.

I think it might be Mrs. DOS now. There was something about a virtual wedding in the paper last year.

That’s the part that really puts the cherry on top, for me. It’s one thing if your CEO is acting on his own rectally generated ideas, but in this case, it’s not even his own rectum.

(And don’t ask why I am putting cherries on my popcorn. I just like cherries, ok?)

I guess they realized there might be some power users they haven’t pissed off, and decided they had better do something about that.

I need to stop reading the Verge comments. I always think there might be one worth reading, and somehow, when—or if—I find it, it’s just not worth the trouble of slogging through the others.

Yeah, I am pretty sure it is actually the opposite of helpful if someone digs up a fashion post more than a year old, at most. Men’s fashion doesn’t change quite as fast as women’s fashion, but fast enough that it’s a bad idea to look in the archives unless you know what was in style at that time is still in style. And if you know that, why look it up?