passepartout @ passepartout @feddit.org

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I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

Google has scraped Reddit and has basically all of its information, as well as the... basically the entire rest of the internet.

This is a big problem in the making, not only for reddit but for everyone. Apart from the societal implications of people getting their information from a non-deterministic system, deployed by one of ~5 big corporations whose intentions clearly differ from the ones of the people, while also feeding back details about themselves, losing their ability to think straight for themselves, impeding connections to other humans, ...

Apart from all that, it will render primary and secondary sources irrelevant. This kills reddits and everyone elses business model on the web as we know it today.

Current lawsuit is over that 'No' being a lie, as well as whether or not it was an intentional lie, as in, they knew it would, and lied, and said it would not.

So this might as well be a blatant lie. What I tried to say before is that this question in this particular case is far from being able to deliver a solution to the root cause of reddits own misery. They had a good run, better and longer than most other big platforms out there. But this lawsuit is only some millionaires feeling the need to blame someone for wobbly stocks.

Reddit made it unmistakably clear that they don't want traffic from people using their API and that they don't want google or anyone else to scrape "their" content, which I'm pretty sure will have significant impact on SEO. They also have made sure to please potential shareholders by banning a ton of users and communities before their IPO.

As a result, the quality and quantity of discussion on the platform has lowered, some people even tried to mass delete their posts and comments which makes some threads to appear like ghost towns, which has also revealed the insane amount of inorganic communication (bots and the like).

So how exactly did google kill their userbase?

I think you are mixing this up with the function of the executive goverment in a state with alleged separation of powers (one of the fundamentals of democracy).

A president himself sending out forces is in fact not normal.

Except you want a free daily examination of your excretions and genitals, performed by Google / Samsung. Exciting times!

There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.

Huh, has grok somehow lost it? I always thought of the public facing LLMs as the overly friendly "I'm here to help" type of guys.

Maybe Elon is trying to fuel even more hate on his platform. But then again, maybe it's just a feedback loop lol.

One of the strongest censorships in the western media must have helped with that.

AI is the "most aggressive" example of "technologies that are not done 'for us' but 'to us.'"

Well said.

I sure hope he keeps his sanity and will have a worthy successor one day.

Completely defeats the purpose.

Isn't that the horse from Horsin' Around?

Classic wednesday stand-up

• effective API shutdown for everyone but themselves to force users onto their objectively worse own app that is filled with ads and telemetry.
• shadowbanning and even real banning for flimsy reasons. Banning whole communities because they think it pleases shareholders.
• AI agents that pollute and distort the discourse. Like posts with 10k upbotes and 5 comments.

That and essentially all the additional things that come with an IPO. All corporate owned social media has gone to shit sooner or later. Most platforms didn't even make it that far.

There is https://lrclib.net/

They have at least a Plugin for Jellyfin. It's not federated but matches the spirit quite well I believe. The whole database dump is just 12GB anyway.

Make desktop go cube brrr

Maybe AntennaPod is for you: https://antennapod.org/

Humanity was a mistake.

It's terrifying to see it visualized like that.

Edit: I thought this is about data and not the storage media itself lol.

Obvious answer: It depends.

One individual can have TBs of storage assigned to them, like a cloud storage with years worth of high res family photos or videos, or TBs worth of... homework and Linux distros. This would be nearly useless / cost more to gather than it has a value.

On the other hand, a group of people can have mere kilobytes of text messages between them that is potentially worth millions of dollars stored on a server, like trade secrets or war plans.

A special case to consider: The data of John Doe type individuals I described first can be a valuable asset too if its not one individual but a big accumulation of thousands / millions of people, especially of they can be made comparable to one another. We see this in advertising and will probably realize this value more and more in crowd surveillance and control / opinion making. Especially if all of this data gets analyzed and reduced to machine readable tokens, possibly even on the users end devices, which means the data gets more valuable and more compact at the same time.

My final answer would be: It effectively ranges from negative to positive millions / billions of $ per any given unit.