Oh Bill…

Well, I’m here, aren’t I?

It should say “fuck reddit” where they join hands.

Forearms. It’s always forearms.

I mourn what it was, yes.

There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.

And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge.

It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.

After hearing the call audio — and I am not defending spez here — I can actually understand how it might have been initially perceived as a “threat” given the context of the conversation. It was a mix of technical and financial negotiations (or really just spez saying “this is how it is, you can suck it”) and Christian was speaking metaphorically about Apollo’s API calls being “noisy” and (at least how I understood it) was suggesting perhaps “quiet” it down by optimizing the software.

I am not trying to victim blame here and it absolutely does not excuse spez turning around and publicly shit talking Christian, especially after spez immediately apologized on the call after admitting to misinterpreting what he heard … anyway, the point I’m trying to make is that it’s important to communicate clearly, directly, and unambiguously.

Particularly in the way that lemmy isn’t finance bro bullshit

Reddit following in their footsteps shortly after

It’s a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $10?

It’ll be like a trainwreck in slow motion

I’m feeling rather smug and justified telling my clients to keep files on a local server that they control rather than “the cloud” someone else’s computer.

That’s definitely my main concern I have with this federated infrastructure. It’s basically the same as IMAP email: if the server goes down, your account and everything it’s associated with goes down with it.

It’s a neat idea and has some benefits, but there really needs to be some sort of backup system in place. Maybe something like mirror instances, where anyone could spin up an instance with the sole purpose of mirroring another instance in case it goes down.

I might want to off myself if I had to live in Quebec, too

(not really, but what Canadian can resist an opportunity to poke fun at Quebec?)

I’m no neuroscientist, but that sounds… mega not good.

Someone’s face is about to match their jumpsuit.

Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it’s going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.

Anything that doesn’t incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a “subscription.”

thoughts?

Looking forward to the trainwreck as spez is verbally eviscerated. Like, how exactly do they imagine it’s gonna play out?

I’ve been a loyal RiF user for years. RiF is reddit to me. This really sucks. So long, reddit.

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