Paradox @ Paradox @lemdro.id

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They promised not to fuck API users over too.

man gets bitten by snake

Hmm, I got bitten. That hurt

man gets bitten by snake again

Ow, that hurt

repeat

Reddit was originally about the content, with the users being an afterthought. Thats why there weren't bios and avatars and all the other crap common amongst web2.0 social sites of the time.

Gold started out as a little donation thing, with a few minor perks, like no ads, longer pages, seen comment remembering, and so forth. Nothing groundbreaking, just more of a "thanks for helping" thing.

Sometime in the 10s, after the OG reddit admins left, and reddit became "independent" of condé, they started chasing user engagement. Profiles, avatars, bios, userpage posts, and, of course, all the award spam. All of it antithetical to what reddit was initially about.

IMO the original vision of reddit was great. I keep avatars turned off on my lemmy user, because I don't really care to see em.

Go straight through to Habit Burger

Yup, that's me. I've got some lemmy scripts in the works too. Here's one that sets your language automatically when posting, and let's you use command enter to post on a Mac

Fast report has been updated, removing the botdefense 1 click submit. Funny thing is, I wrote fast reports to make using a bot on rAndroid easier

Been using imagus for a very long time, since the original HoverZoom was compromised

GreatValue brand Helvetica. They muck up the lines and they look awful imo

Gold wasn't ever even supposed to be that. When raldi (iirc) wrote the original gold system, it was just supposed to be a donator thing. Buy the gold stuff, and you get an award in your achievements thing, access to r/lounge, ability to keep track of what you've seen previously (persistent, not just in a cookie), and "extended" pages (load a full thousand comments, etc). The XKCD merch stuff was just another goodie to sweeten the pile (reddit's original merch store was just hosted through XKCD).

Gold gifting started out fairly clunky; you had to go to someone's userpage, and then there was a tiny "buy gold" link in the sidebar. The post/comment upsells came later, but were still pretty minor

Then sometime in the middle of the 10s, it turned into a meme, along with other features like snoovatars, avatars, profile posts, bios, and then eventually all of the new reddit slop, which seemed to run counter to the original idea of reddit: the content is more important than who is posting it. This old, long dead ideal, was what really distinguished reddit from Digg. Digg would give higher "karma" users votes more weight, and would rank their submissions higher. Reddit, on the other hand, barely acknowledged users. Wasn't quite the full-on Anon of 4chan, but who made the post was never supposed to be the focus. There's a reason why old reddit, the bylines are rather small compared to the posts and comments themselves

I wouldn't call gold an important feature. When it was first built, gold was supposed to be a little supplement to reddit. You'd get a badge on your profile, ad free reddit, access to r/lounge, and larger pages (load ALL comments). That was pretty much it.

When reddit rolled out the awards, they came with other anti-features, like avatars, profile pages, bios, and others, that tended to stray from what reddit was originally about: the content. Digg was heavily criticized for placing an emphasis on certain celebrity users, making their votes count more.

What, you don't like 3 gifs per line?

On my Xbox, I've been running the Xbox Accessible controller for a few years now, as an addition to my regular controller. Pretty nice to have a few pedals available for certain games.

demand money from third party app developers
give money to karmawhores

wut

Inoreader

Its open-source, so it wouldn't be impossible to add images. Probably pretty trivial actually. Might be a good first PR

https://catbox.moe

They already tried nuking i.reddit a few months ago.

There's a workaround, you can append .i to the end of a URL and it works, but still, shame to see the lightest weight reddit interface disappear

That has worked well for valve. TF2 wiki is incredible

Their free is pretty much just "you get to use a very limited amount of our features, to try em out" and the limited amount is still pretty generous.

I've been using them for a very long time, since before the free was actually an option, and have to say they're absolutely the best RSS aggregator I've found

Might be some solace in the near future. Pixel Light is becoming a thing, where the car will selectively black out part of the headlight beam for oncoming traffic.

Is your name a reference to Anthony "JoJ" Johnson?