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

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Oh hey, I'm one of the other two, lol. I think they probably lose money on us at this point, with the amount of ads they serve.

This is a really good idea. Advertisers don't want to pay Reddit for ads posted next to NSFW stuff, and if they find out Reddit is deliberately making it more likely... that could be an expensive situation for Reddit.

I can't argue with that reasoning, lol. I would have taken the earliest possible opportunity to have a character sit on a magical tomato, for exactly that reason.

An RPG with its own instance sounds super cool!

It should look like three red beans in a vaguely triangular arrangement.

...why a tomato? They're kind of squishy, I would worry about someone absent-mindedly sticking one in a pocket and having a very squelchy surprise later.

Extra credit if you yourself are a small, furry animal. By almost any definition of "small," "furry," and "animal."

I think this makes a good point about defederation being an unnecessarily dramatic step, but the poster also describes various steps instances might take to protect content and users without actually dropping the portcullis. It's difficult to welcome Meta users (desirable) without welcoming Meta's corporate interests (undesirable).

That's because they don't have ActivityPub working yet. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

They can't get at us yet, since they are not launching with ActivityPub, which they will need to interact with the Fediverse: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

We will have to make that decision at some point, ofc. I'm in favor of whatever keeps Zucc from getting his grubby little paws on anything I post.

When you go through self-check, you should really be tipping yourself.

Oh, I see. I suppose I should expect that kind of reverse valuation from organisms that inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen.

I think a lot of GMs can honestly answer "yes" to that question, lol, so careful you don't turn the session into a discussion of their latest writing project (along with the writing projects of anyone else in the group who feels like talking about writing).

...unless that's your jam, in which case, go for it!

I mean, you wouldn't need to edit it at the end, and probably no one else would be reading it, so you could keep your standards low. Probably easier than writing a book, though possibly not as much fun.

Which I think is a little funny, since the restaurant only has one star.

I disagree with that definition of news. Keeping politicians accountable is certainly one of the functions of the press, but there are a lot of possible news items that don't refer to politicians. "Winter storms hit [location]" is news, but not related to politicians unless it talks about steps local politicians are taking to prevent storm damage (which is not necessary for a good article). Or "Physicists find [particle they were looking for]." That one could be in Science rather than here, but it is definitely news, and I personally think it's hard to shoehorn politics into a discussion of particle physics without losing track of what actually happened. Very few politicians involve themselves in that kind of research (though, to be fair, it might be news if they did).

Whether it's possible to have a purely apolitical news forum is a different question, and I am sure it's possible to put a political spin on almost anything if you want, but I just don't think it's true that news must be political to be news.

Yeah, that would have been smart. But Huffman has publicly (and unwisely) admitted that he admires Elon, which means he is currently not at home to Mr. Smart.

Ugh, putting nitrile (or vinyl, or p. much any nonporous material) gloves on wet hands is the worst. I have totally wrecked more gloves that way than I would like to admit. And when I get them halfway on and try to do something with the ends of the fingertips flapping off the ends of my actual fingers, the regret is extreme, lol.

Thanks for the link, that article is delightfully savage. I laughed so hard my cat came over to check if I was dying.

Same, their coverage has made me feel way less terrible about all of this. Just knowing someone is out there calling Reddit on their BS makes it easier for me to accept that Reddit is no longer a safe place for me and move on.