TechnoBabble @ TechnoBabble @lemm.ee

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Surely this isn't true.

I got a message saying I apparently have premium and/or coins, and to use them before they expire.

But, even before the Reddit plague I had no way of even knowing that, because I used old Reddit and RiF.

Anyway, my point is that this change only affects official Reddit app users, and new Reddit users.

So Reddit found a way to take stuff away from the users who weren't directly affected by the third-party app shutdowns.

It's a genius way to make sure everyone is pissed off all at once.

The guy above definitely could have left the politics out of that comment, since there's nothing more bipartisan than rich people fucking the working class.

I've been wondering why this isn't talked about more.

All those commercial mortgages are intertwined with banks, and retirement accounts, and all sorts of "stable" investments.

Plus it's not just the offices directly affected by pandemic remote work that aren't renewing their leases. New companies wont lease a building since it's not expected anymore, and big companies will be counting the beans to see how much they can save by reducing office space.

This is a phase shift in commercial real estate that I don't think banks have budgeted for.

I'm sure everyone on wall street knows it's coming, but if they can act surprised and get another bailout in a major crash, that's just going to cost you and me our futures, again.

I agree, the "award" systems, are one of the least offensive monetization strategies I've seen.

Keep in mind that awards don't have to behave like Reddit and Discord have implement them. I'm sure there's room to innovate in a community focused manner.

Reddit however, has decided that they need to crush everything and go full Silicon Valley vampire in order to squeeze a lifetime of upper class earnings into a get rich quick payout scheme.

The revenue calculations likely take gold into account.

At least the real rev/user would.

It also disables a lot of analytics, so you get a better experience than the paying customers, for free.

I think they're planning to release a real-money karma system that'll revolve around awards.

So they need to sunset the old awards, to make room for cash awards.

It's such a terrible idea for a social network that I'm convinced Reddit is doing it.

Hey, you know the only perk you get with Reddit Premium that isn't available through a free browser extension?

Yeah that's going away in 60 days.

It will be replaced with something so awful we dare not mention it while people are still pissed off about the other popular thing we killed with little notice.

We here at the Reddit management understand you have concerns about the destruction of the global hub of collaboration, but you'll get over it.

Peace!

The real danger behind Chat Control and similar measures, is that countries won't even have to utilize parallel construction anymore. No longer will dragnet surveillance mostly target the big guys. They'll be able to basically automate prosecution of any crime that they desire.

Think about how many little slices have been taken out of our freedom pie over the last 10 years. How many similar dystopian laws have passed despite our outrage?

Technology is outpacing our ability to protect ourselves, and countries will keep pushing boundaries until nothing is left sacred.

Oppression never sleeps.

I'm guessing from the unlimited money hose that was Silicon Valley venture capital.

Problem is, and the reason we're hearing about this now, the money is being redirected to AI, and all these negative income companies don't have enough capital to keep going.

That's why it seems like the entire Internet is going to shit all at once. The corporate money that tried to monopolize everything we access online has been cut off.

But the good news is that compute, bandwidth , and storage has gotten cheap enough to host powerful FOSS alternatives ourselves.

I'm cautiously hopeful this leads to a golden era of the open Internet.

Why do I need port-forwarding for torrents?

Torrenting happily on Mullvad right now.

I switched to Mullvad after PIA got bought by that spyware company.

They're great.

I can find just about anything I want through public trackers or DDL sites, so I haven't bothered to look into them.

I just joined form lemmy.world after they were targeted by the XSS attack, and the responsiveness of the instance went to shit.

This is actually my first comment here so it's also a bit of a test to see if comments work better than they are over there.

Edit: Instant post, I love it.