hightrix @ hightrix @lemmy.world

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You can blame the bot for decreased ad revenue all you’d like but it’s malarkey.

Websites have poisoned the well, so to say. It is simply not smart to browse these sites without ad blockers. Constant popups, cookie banners with 100s of toggles, flashing ads for random junk, and so on were driven by greed originally and are now driven by survival. If the greed could have subsided just a bit and website owners not tried to make all the money, people wouldn’t need to use tldr bots or adblockers.

Sorry not sorry, fuck your ad supported content.

I’m not the OP, but when Spotify added these is made the user experience worse.

I used Spotify for music and only music. So seeing a row or two of podcasts inserted before music was really annoying. Getting podcast recommendations was also annoying. If they would have let me just opt out of seeing podcasts, there would not have been any issues. But they didn’t.

I don’t use Spotify anymore.

I could would suggest you take a voyage around the App Store for Lemmy apps. I won’t name any. But there are many good ones.

They want the unicorn, they will settle for a horse with a horn taped to its forehead.

It takes a month or so before recommendations start to get close to my tastes. Apple has consistently recommended either old bands I haven’t listened to in years or new bands that I end up liking. Sure, they still fail from time to time, but I listen to a very wide variety and Apple seems to be the only platform to recognize that if I’m listening to metallica, I don’t want to hear kid cudi in the same playlist

I spent a few months with each of them recently.

For me, Apple Music recommendations are by far the best. Tidal was decent but the UI was a pain and the integrations didn’t work well. Spotify had great integrations and easy device switching, but the recommendations were terrible, for me. YouTube music is the worst of the batch. Bad UI, bad recommendations, and just not a music lovers platform.

So, I use Apple Music. For me, it is the best since the GOAT Google Play Music was retired.

Personally, I think it is worse here as there is almost zero opposing voice. On Reddit, there are people from most sides of most topics. Here, in most conversations, there is only one side represented.

Now, I tend to agree with the bias here, on some things, some times. But even when I agree, I want to see arguments from the opposition. Otherwise, I never learn.

It is unfortunate that this is what you have decided to take away from the blog post instead of reflecting on the criticism I have provided.

This is a serious problem across Lemmy(and elsewhere). Someone makes a reasonable argument and the responses will all pile on either something in the users comment history or one sentence in 5 paragraphs that they disagree with.

I dont mean to be rude, but people that have been banned from Reddit coming here does not improve the community.

I’d say this is only half of the answer.

After browsing Lemmy for a while, you get the sense that the average user here is the type that gets upset about a social media company making changes to an API. That is a very specific type of person and you can see it in the comments.

I’d guess people get turned off by that type of person and leave.

I come here once Reddit and hacker news content is old. This isn’t a place I’d recommend to anyone, unfortunately. There are extremely strong biases all over and deep echo chambers. Users here seem like the perpetually online type. Most perspectives I’ve seen have been heavily influenced by online discourse rather than reality.

I visit this site less and less due to the user base.

Quest counts.

No, I don’t use any of their products.

Wikipedia is highly unreliable for current events.

This. I have to tell everyone that I recommend this show to to power through the first few episodes as it is not a noir space crime drama that is appears to be when following around some random detective on a space station.

Simple answer, unit tests.

The answer, as with everything in software development, is that it depends.

A god method with 100 optional params that is usually bad practice. But a common pattern is to allow for an options object to be passed, and that object may contain 0-n supported parameters. This pattern is used everywhere, see graphql as a widely used library that is based on this.

Wow. That is dark as hell.

But I laughed at your comment.

subs will get about three to four hours of thousands of updoots and comments and then get nuked by the mods

This was a tactic made common by Gallowboob. He would do this on every major sub he moderated, but with even more nastiness.

He’s post, wait to see if it got enough upvotes, if it did not he’d delete and repost. Constantly. Until his posts got to the top.

He did this across many of the largest subredddits and turned it into a paid job where he’d advertise for others using this same patterns.

Even worse, he’d delete others posts if they were doing too well too quickly and repost as his own.

Dude is one of the pillars of what destroyed Reddit.

Same.

While I wasn’t some power user, I did have many comments with 1k or more votes.

Reddits decision to first destroy the UX of Reddit and then destroy the best Reddit apps made my decision to delete everything very easy.

Yes and the democratically controlled CPUC in CA did similar. They rushed through rate increases and reimbursement reductions on the whims of the power companies.

This is not a republican vs democrat issue. This is showing regulatory capture around the country.

This is not a partisan issue. See California, a very blue state, doing the exact same thing.

Pull your head out of the sand.