skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lesson from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit has in each case been identical:

Platform ownership matters. If you invest your time into a platform which someone else owns, they can devalue your investment at any time, on whim. Or they could sell it to a billionaire ideologue who is angry at his daughter.

I don't know what the future will look like, but I do know this: we will all be much more careful about how we spend our time, and what kind of control we have over the future of that investment.

Finally, a quick note of historical precedent: This is not a new problem. Musicians, writers, and artists have been dealing with exploitative contracts for a literal century. What's new is that the 'creator economy' has democratized not just content creation, but also creator exploitation.

We are all Ke$ha now, in a sense.
This really only makes me angry with these power hungry moderators throwing toddler like temper tantrums... Not with Reddit, with them it is the bad web site...

I say just kick them out and get someone else. And if those are not good, repeat until it is acceptable.
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In my short experience this is mostly due to OOP falling out of style, being replaced by a more hybrid approach that combines a lot of functional programming, procedural programming, and OOP - that, together with newer languages providing alternatives for inheritance (traits/concepts), and such, you rarely find yourself needing much more than visitor- and factory pattern.
Yep, forget them, they're done.
Finding black market prices has been done in the past. The issue is that people often do not have a clear understanding of what a “product” actually looks like on the black market and what the value of the “coupon” is.
They’ll have a difficult time attracting some users when the only chat option is proprietary and to join the “ecosystem” users must create a Microsoft GitHub account in order to sign-in. We’ve seen stories of accounts banned (like the star hacking situation) where a user could be entirely locked out of a community on Slack or Microsoft’s terms, not the community’s.
Eternal september
> Now that the censors are coming for you there's no one left to speak.

Interesting how you are using words that remind of a famous poem about persecution.

> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

> Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

> Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

But here’s the thing. The poem above is about the the silence of people in Germany following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

The nazis are not the victims. The nazis are the aggressors and persecutors.

Hate and intolerance is not about free speech nor any other kind of freedom. Banning nazis and other people who do not respect the human rights of others is not a wrong, it’s how we protect everyone else from those who have no respect for others.
Check my comment above.
To be fair, this isn't a tech site.
Soap actually increases his chance of survival in this scenario. Clean wound == less chance of infection.

Explaining what soap does and why people should value it would be the real challenge. Communication in general would need to be built from scratch. No english, no latin languages, no modern gestures like thumbs up and hand shakes, no common ground.

Depending on the era, I would bet on agriculture and fermentation as my empire-building tech. Wine first, then bread which is a little bit harder. Maybe spices also, I heard some pretty large empires were built on the power of funny flavors.
If this petition was made in revolutionary France between, say 1790 and 1792, I'd be in half a mind that it was in earnest and not satire.
Revenge Served Ice Cold?
This type of content is always free... For your general audience, there is plenty of enough of it always. And with comments even too much. You never really need to pay monetary value for it.
I disagree with nazism, but if someone wants to preach nazism I will defend his right to say it.
No, I think they just don’t know much about mod influence. Which makes sense: very few people are moderators (because, who would be besides power thirsty basement lords).

The result is they were 1) unprepared for the negative reaction by moderators and 2) woefully blindsided by moderator influence on users and their influence on site control.

Also explains why they have never put any time into developing moderator tooling.
That would make sense if they wanted to emulate FB, which is questionable in itself, but how they're proceeding with these changes is completely killing the very thing that made them successful in the first place. It's as if the leadership was replaced with people who don't understand Reddit at all.

It's a very dumb move, considering they had all the resources and power to do this right, and still increase their revenue. Now they will increase it momentarily, which will please shareholders, but eventually this will die down as people abandon the platform because it has become a shell of its former self.
They did pay for it, with free labour.
I read it. It’s bizarre. They’re so convinced of their preferred ideology that they refer to indoctrination as simply “becoming a better person”.

One doesn’t come across such intense blindness of self like that very often. Steer clear.
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What information do you want to know about them, and why? Their name? Address? How many children they have?

The main thing I might want to know about them is their history of actions on Reddit. That is who they are - at least as far as we're concerned with respect to their role as a mod.
I've seen a lot of companies go far by "selling the dream" instead of actually booking rev. If this continues to go badly reddit won't have rev or a dream. At least with users making content other users want there is always a chance.
Well, it's about story points rather than estimation per-se. The alleged inventor of story points says their invention was probably a mistake: https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/story-points/Index...

But most people ultimately want estimates to determine whether or not a project is going to be late or over budget (often the same thing). What's worked for me is to ensure the stories are of the same sort of size (ie they mostly sort of look like they could be done in a few hours/days/week/months) - count them up and divide by remaining time. You'll then get an idea of whether you'll need to deliver 2 things a week or 50 - and you'll have a gut feel on whether that's achievable.
> 'Self custody digital currency' is not a use case anybody has asked for.

The number of hardware wallets clearly shows that this statement is false. Someone who uses Bitcoin today might not have asked for it but now that it exists they use it just like smart phones.

> The current system already has a solution that is better than Bitcoin, and that everyone already uses it's called:

Cash.

Cash and Bitcoin are not directly comparable as they have different properties but even if you were to focus on the one property that they share notice how controls of cash are getting more and more restrictive.

> Why does Bitcoin still gets seized by the government?

Because people allow it to be seized by their own volition or their own incompetence.

> It also needs to engulf the planet in enormous electricity waste to compute billions of meaningless puzzles.

The same could be said for video games. Video games cause more e-waste, use more electricity, are designed to be addictive and rob people of doing productive things for themselves and others.

> Other countries have better systems that doesn't use Bitcoin and are far cheaper and scale better than Bitcoin.

Far cheaper and scale better but have none of the properties that make Bitcoin attractive or essential in the first place.
I remember all the peak oil claims in the early 2000s, then all of a sudden shale oil, gas, and fracking made all the people sounding the alarm look very silly.

Resource scarcity isn't a new phenomenon. It's why markets exist. Prices allocate resources. There is no emergency here.

Sure, fossil fuels are finite - can you give me a number for how finite? Everyone who tried in 2008 was wrong. Prices increased, we got more exploration, the tech improved, and all of a sudden our fossil fuel supply massively increased.

Everyone seems so utterly confident in predicting so many problems in the future, yet things keep getting better generation after generation.

We need to stop pretending we can predict and solve all of society's future problems right now.
Why would you not expect egos and personal ideologies to affect both admins and mods somewhere like Reddit, they're people just like Fediverse volunteers? Aren't they both the same on that side, meaning the only difference is that one of them also has commercial interests in the mix?
Isn't that the whole reason why it makes sense to iterate, and release early and often?
Yea no way. Unless you jailbreak. I would love it, though. The iPhone, iPad and now this thing would be great if there we could just opt to jailbreak without risks. I don’t jailbreak my phone because it’s risky and I don’t mind having it stock. The iPad would be great if I could run anything properly on it. The Vision Pro would be phenomenal. I’m thinking of all the game ports that could happen if the OS wasn’t locked down. I see their rationale in doing it, to retain control over the quality of the user-experience. But for those users who want to experiment, it just hampers their experience instead.
Oh, neat! Thanks for pointing that out; I somehow got this far in life without realizing that SRV records have priority and weight fields (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record has a decent summary) - I only knew that they let you specify a port, which would already be a huge advantage. Darn, now I'm even more annoyed that browsers don't handle them:(
need a good react component visual builder that produces code you can then customize. You still have code but it speed things up
I laugh, as a conservative who was on the receiving end of these tactics 2 years ago. You reap what you sow.
Just before I left my last gig, I was toying with an idea similar to this.

The idea was that our daily “standup” would be entirely asynchronous, prompted via a Slack bot.

The bot would grab our in-progress tickets and ask us about each one in turn. For each ticket we give a “gut check”, which is how far towards completion we feel we are (expressed as a simple percentage).

A core idea is that it’s not expected for the dev to be accurate in this assessment, just to be an honest guess.

Over time the bot would collect and run some analysis on this data, and would then know the average velocity of the team on a per-dev or per-ticket basis.

I still like the idea, even though I’ve never implemented it in practice. One glaringly obvious fault is that it can’t really account for outliers. But relying on percentiles rather than averages might alleviate some of that.
Discussed at the time:

Software effort estimation is mostly fake research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825244 - Jan 2021 (308 comments)
> ... they don’t actually know that much about their own website. That might also explain why they never built out the tooling to begin with.

Its this. It starts at the top:

> Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable. [1]

If he had modded a big sub, like a city sub for example, he'd know that you can't actually moderate toward popular opinion.

Not only because what is popular is not always sustainable. Leadership is doing the right thing even if it is not popular. But on a less obvious level, this wouldn't work because the site doesn't handle the influence of astroturfing and brigading.

To even provide for fair votes would require user abuse administration tools the site clearly does not have.

What a bummer. I've invested a fair amount of time into reddit. It has a lot of useful information. It is a shame it is led by this guy. This whole thing did not need to happen. It seems so common to be let down by leaders of social media companies.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aeq5j/new_admin...
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Seriously, brilliant approach. What a missed opportunity.
I'm very sympathetic. Doesn't seem like alienating all the volunteer labor is the way to go though.

Without much inside info, I think what they should have done is something like: 1. Make actually-good first-party tools for moderators, 2. Figure out how to monetize everything else.

But trying to make money off of the volunteer labor is not the way to go, IMO.

It really reminds me of Twitter. Why can't these super high traffic sites where all the content is contributed for free figure out how to make money?
As someone who transitioned from flash to webdev a decade ago, I wholeheartedly agree with this. A lot of folks who started their careers with current state of webdev workflows don't fully understand how amazing a fully integrated design solution that generates production ready artifacts (while retaining programmability) can be.

Thank you for succinctly summarizing this - I couldn't have done it better.
Why is this downvoted?

According to the linked article, even the bots which exceed the usage were manually whitelisted to stay free.
Someone has to be using the redesign, most I'd guess, but I don't understand how. It's one thing that I don't like the look and feel, that's pretty subjective to a point, but the problem is that it doesn't actually work.

Something as basic as reading comments is still broken, after all these years. You can not navigate the comment section. Seems like a pretty big oversight, unless you betting the farm on doom-scrolling, and I think that exactly what's happening.

Reddit management left the community to it's own devices for years, now the ad revenue is drying up, they have an IPO around the corner (because no VC is going to throw more money into an anonymous message board). I don't really see any easy out for Reddit, they do need money, but I'm not sure they are going about it in the right way.
It set off the flamewar detector. We've turned that off now.
> But even a bad estimate gives you some handle on how easy or hard something is to do

Can’t agree with this at all. A bad estimate is by definition bad. How does it give you a handle on anything if it’s unreliable? It’s like saying bad medicine is better than no medicine.

And when you talk about breaking an estimating problem into smaller estimates, you’re now firmly in the domain of actually doing the work. An economist can’t take a software problem and decompose it into tractable solutions. Even if they could - good luck getting the customer to pay for that.

That’s why I say estimating is an economic problem. The cost of accurate estimates asymptotically approaches the cost of the implementation. Nobody is willing to pay for accurate estimates, and anyway doing this doesn’t make sense.

Unfortunately there are very few levers to pull in terms of software planning. Time based project management is way over emphasised. This is why approaches like lean (MVP, CD) and agile exist in the first place.
Alternatives don’t just appear out of thin air. No one’s going to purchase a huge server farm for a small user base. As Lemmy instances grow, more servers will be purchased. It happens organically.
Does mholt consider it a mistake? I'm aware that it was reverted (https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/1866) and that mholt found the whole thing difficult (which is my attempt to neutrally summarize https://caddy.community/t/the-realities-of-being-a-foss-main... accurately), but that is a somewhat different statement. If so, then yes, it's unkind and unhelpful to keep bringing it up, but if no then it's useful to keep previous behavior in mind when evaluating the product.
I was using Kagi, and while I paid for them for a good while, I switched to DDG because I just can’t afford to subscribe to so many things. It’s money well spent and I agree with and support their philosophy, but man, all these monthly things add up.
The point is that "federating" with a remote instance means accepting posts from users on that instance that you have no control over. If "host" is a rogue instance that's sending spam all over the place, it makes sense that other parts of the network will defederate from it. It's still a global namespace, users are just limited in where they can post if they are on an untrusted instance.
This has been my primary concern about federated reddit. With mastodon etc, the defederation stuff is tolerable because you aren't as likely to have any reason to care about the instance defederating from you anyway.

For instance, the free-speech instances weren't going to be interested in dealing with the typical Twitter refugee anyway, and both would be content in their own corner.

But with federated forums this changes, as now you're expecting users from other instances to form a community with your users, so you're heavily incentivised to only work with instances who place the same emphasis on the rules, and unless each "clique" is fine with duplicating all the common forum topics for their own users, the result is that a very small group of people gets to take everyone's content hostage to impose their own will on the community.

So we're back to the same Reddit issue of a few people controlling the majority of the content.
Maybe it's my own problem, but I believe a lot of people have the same problem:

My biggest issue about this is that I'm too lazy to learn how it works. I don't understand what "federation" and "defederating" mean in this context. For Reddit I have terms like:

subreddit - a board, like in a forum

mod - a mod, just like in a forum again

karma - useless internet point

and that's about all I need to know. I just don't have the incentive to learn what federation, defederating, instances, etc are, but they seem to somehow can affect what content I can see or whether I'll get banned. This demotivates me even further.

Of course if it becomes a mainstream platform or all my friends are using it then I'll learn these concepts. But not before that.
just add “cache:” before the url (without the quotes, without any extra space), most of the time it works. it should go to google cache in most browsers.
Storybook?
> Perhaps other parts of the world still use it, but the US no longer gives a rats ass.

Agreed, but it's sensible to keep it as an asset should another pandemic arise - and we have quite a number of potential pathogens, from an evasive COVID mutation over a ton of bat-related viruses and currently-frozen Russian permafrost archives to bird flu.
Anybody know the monthly cost of running a Lemmy instance?
Generally people who work at these places are not all that chatty about it online.
So easy to fake those conditions, though, and then you’re right back where you started only with a fun new game of whackamole to play.
> We're back to dodging Eris, are we?

For those that don’t know:

> Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels, or servers. Restriction grew and, in August 1990, eris.Berkeley.EDU was the last server indiscriminately allowing other servers to join it, Eris being the Greek goddess of strife and discord.

> A group of operators, with the support of Jarkko Oikarinen, introduced a new "Q-line" into their server configurations, to "quarantine" themselves away from eris by disconnecting from any subset of the IRC network as soon as they saw eris there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet

This is how the Eris-Free network, or EFnet as it is known, was formed.

Further:

> EFnet […] is a major Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, with more than 35,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network.
people are blowing this out of proportion.

How is this any different to people being filmed on a game show where they can win millions of dollars if they answer questions correctly or complete challenges in a specific time on national television. Those shows generate revenue by people watching them in the hope that people win against all odds or revel in the fact that they missed out on national television.

The difference here, is that this guy is doing it on Youtube and has a much larger impact on individuals lives.
Porno? Pretty sure your comics would be interpreted as "fertility symbols" by future archaeologists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine
> I don't think you understood the article or what I wrote.

Funnily enough you appear to be responding to the article's author. If you notice his other comments in this thread its apparent his reading comprehension is not at a level that produces productive conversation.
> There are plenty of search engines that don't spy on you

That's a very bold (and erroneous) statement when you put DDG in the list
Interesting, though not sure I follow. My reasoning is that the ultimate deadline is the “we run out of money and go out of business” point, from which all other points follow. So a project may be organized differently, but under the hood it’s all the same - get more money before you lose all the money.