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  • Italian government offer Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk the opportunity to fight at Colosseum

    I hate this timeline

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  • Is it to the death? Please say it's to the death.

  • Sriracha sauce is selling for as much as $120 amid prolonged shortage

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  • Hooray - my Mastodon and Kbin icons have arrived - now I can put them up on my website.

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  • Sorry - did you get a db error?

  • Reddit traffic returning normal, sort of.

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  • Let’s understand that Reddit has spent over a decade enjoying its status as a world-leading platform while kicking the ‘we’ll figure out how to monetize later’ can down the road. Along the way, some important social questions have arrived and Reddit is still failing to show leadership in this matter. Let me explain:

    Those that say Reddit ‘will continue on’ aren’t looking at the situation through the lens of history. At its core, ‘Reddit is a rare social product that has seemed to become more relevant over time, as a growing user base comes to appreciate its distinctive, human-centered approach to digital conversations.’ A digital third place, built on mutually-shared beliefs and principals of digital altruism – Reddit existed to Give People Voices – aiming to create a safe space for all viewpoints.

    So that’s what Reddit is supposed to do as a ‘platform.’ What about Reddit as a ‘company?’ Sadly, boardroom shenanigans have pursued Reddit throughout its entire lifecycle. Reddit lost the public-spirited people like Aaron Swartz, and gained trolls, hate groups, and the soap opera that was the Ellen Pao debacle. As Will Durant said: ‘A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.’

    Actions this year by Reddit have pushed it much farther down the path of ‘less user-oriented.’ Worse, public statements and private actions by the company leave nothing to doubt when it comes to their intentions. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” Steve Huffman the CEO of Reddit, wrote in a recent AMA.

    Spez' decisions have ripped the guts out of Reddit's understood social identity and community intent. Those public statements and private actions by the company I mentioned earlier? They aren’t there to make Reddit a more human-centered place. Monetizing API use won’t increase Reddit’s stature as a ‘a safe space for all viewpoints.’ Like when managers decided to launch the Challenger space shuttle, “the concerns about the O-rings that ultimately led to the explosion were buried in a vast sea of thousands of other decisions … leading up to the ill-fated launch.”

    Risks don’t rely on your perspective for existence. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away,” as Philip K. Dick famously said. This recent Reddit move to monetize APIs creates major cracks in its foundations of digital altruism and human-centered behavior. As I said last year with Twitter: “Twitter has every chance to prove to us that it can be a safe, responsible place for us to interact with our readers if they want to. In the meantime, it’s getting too weird around here. I’m mustering at the life boat station now, in case we must abandon ship.”

    Originally posted here

  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
    inkican @kbin.social

    Hooray - my Mastodon and Kbin icons have arrived - now I can put them up on my website.

    www.inkican.com
  • News @kbin.social
    inkican @kbin.social

    ‘Home Improvement’ Star Zachery Ty Bryan Amassed a Bitcoin Fortune, Then Spiraled Amid Domestic Violence Arrest, Allegations of Fraud

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /tv/tv-features/home-improvement-zachery-ty-bryan-arrest-fraud-1235519779/

  • Reddit is in danger of a death spiral

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  • Let’s understand that Reddit has spent over a decade enjoying its status as a world-leading platform while kicking the ‘we’ll figure out how to monetize later’ can down the road. Along the way, some important social questions have arrived and Reddit is still failing to show leadership in this matter. Let me explain:

    Those that say Reddit ‘will continue on’ aren’t looking at the situation through the lens of history. At its core, ‘Reddit is a rare social product that has seemed to become more relevant over time, as a growing user base comes to appreciate its distinctive, human-centered approach to digital conversations.’ A digital third place, built on mutually-shared beliefs and principals of digital altruism – Reddit existed to Give People Voices – aiming to create a safe space for all viewpoints.

    So that’s what Reddit is supposed to do as a ‘platform.’ What about Reddit as a ‘company?’ Sadly, boardroom shenanigans have pursued Reddit throughout its entire lifecycle. Reddit lost the public-spirited people like Aaron Swartz, and gained trolls, hate groups, and the soap opera that was the Ellen Pao debacle. As Will Durant said: ‘A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.’

    Actions this year by Reddit have pushed it much farther down the path of ‘less user-oriented.’ Worse, public statements and private actions by the company leave nothing to doubt when it comes to their intentions. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” Steve Huffman the CEO of Reddit, wrote in a recent AMA.

    Spez' decisions have ripped the guts out of Reddit's understood social identity and community intent. Those public statements and private actions by the company I mentioned earlier? They aren’t there to make Reddit a more human-centered place. Monetizing API use won’t increase Reddit’s stature as a ‘a safe space for all viewpoints.’ Like when managers decided to launch the Challenger space shuttle, “the concerns about the O-rings that ultimately led to the explosion were buried in a vast sea of thousands of other decisions … leading up to the ill-fated launch.”

    Risks don’t rely on your perspective for existence. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away,” as Philip K. Dick famously said. This recent Reddit move to monetize APIs creates major cracks in its foundations of digital altruism and human-centered behavior. As I said last year with Twitter: “Twitter has every chance to prove to us that it can be a safe, responsible place for us to interact with our readers if they want to. In the meantime, it’s getting too weird around here. I’m mustering at the life boat station now, in case we must abandon ship.”

    Originally posted here

  • Elon Musk Silences Critics By Deactivating Accounts And Reaching Out To Their Employers

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  • If I was the employer, I'd want to know what my employee is still doing on Twitter. "Don't you know about Mastodon?"

  • News @kbin.social
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    Strange thing found in student's meal is rat head, Chinese officials rule after food scare anger | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2023/06/21/china/china-rat-head-student-food-intl-hnk/index.html
  • News @kbin.social
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    Postal worker dies in Dallas, woman found dead in Louisiana as temperatures reach record highs

    abcnews.go.com /US/texas-sweltering-record-breaking-temperatures/story

  • Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

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  • Can Zuck go do this and agree to leave Mastodon alone?

  • Phoenix is emerging as the city of the future

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  • News @kbin.social
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    "We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else

    www.axios.com /2023/06/20/scientific-community-eyes-doors-twitter

  • "It's the content, stupid" - some #chaoticgood ways to encourage people to get off of Reddit and onto Kbin

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  • Upvoted! :D

  • "It's the content, stupid" - some #chaoticgood ways to encourage people to get off of Reddit and onto Kbin

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  • Smart. What's interesting about it is that the redditors who have left are pretty salty, so I've been accused of being a content farmer for posting content to m/todayIlearned. I was like, dude, there's no karma for posting links. I'm just doing this to be kind, no karma involved. People have a lot of PTSD from the culture of reddit.

  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
    inkican @kbin.social

    "It's the content, stupid" - some #chaoticgood ways to encourage people to get off of Reddit and onto Kbin

  • World News @kbin.social
    inkican @kbin.social

    Looted artworks return to Warsaw’s National Museum, says culture minister

    tvpworld.com /70687815/looted-artworks-return-to-warsaws-national-museum-says-culture-minister
  • World News @kbin.social
    inkican @kbin.social

    Iraq: displays 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy

    www.bbc.com /news/world-middle-east-65944282
  • World News @kbin.social
    inkican @kbin.social

    Scottish wildcats bred in captivity released to the wild in a bid to save the species from extinction | CNN

    www.cnn.com /2023/06/15/europe/scottish-wildcats-released-to-the-wild-save-the-species-from-extinction-scn-spc-c2e