• Davel23@kbin.social
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    Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.

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      Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do

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    You know, I realize all the people who put in money want a return on their investment. I get it.

    But what I can’t forgive is killing 3rd party clients when your official client sucks all the donkey balls in every reality in every universe.

    You couldn’t come to a reasonable and sane fee for 3rd party clients? Barring that, you couldn’t just buy a superior client like RiF and bolt your name on it?

    Fuck Spez.

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      They did buy a superior client. Alien Blue it was called. Then internal politics killed it. Even today Alien Blue would still be a better experience, without any updates in the last five years.

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      This is what always got to me that I don’t think people focus on enough. It’s such an anti-consumer pattern. Instead of improving the official reddit app, or buying out a third party one, they simply shot the competition in the knees.

      If you want everyone on the official app, be competitive and invest into making it not suck donkey balls. Obviously that’s far too much work.

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        It’s not about the work, they would pay devs to do the work and it would cost them less than this mess.

        They want to force people into analytics, and that’s very hard with third party apps, and they’ll never convince everyone to use theirs because of analytics.

        So they give people 1 choice.

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      There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.

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        Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.

        It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.

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      All that costs time, money and resources whereas flatput lying and fucking people over is cheap. You calculate how much you’ll lose, see that it’s enormously bad qualitatively but you won’t lose too many visitors because most people don’t give a fuck so you go with it.

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      That’s the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would’ve made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.

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      You know, I realize that some people run a dictatorship and only want absolute obedience, I totally get that, that’s totally a gettable thing for me, that’s not weird at all.

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    I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.

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        Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.

        Well, at least he’s right about the ego thing. He’s going to get traded for a handful of batteries within the first week lol.

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            Cannibals might. If they’re not rechargeable.

            Spez might be worthless in a Mad Max style apocalypse but he’s several few good meals kept in a basement in a The Road style apocalypse.

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      When i read this in 2017 i got really mad, had this in my head for weeks. What a piece of shit spez is.

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      It will be highly amusing watching him being dragged out of his New Zealand bunker and eaten alive.

      And yes, Spez, we CAN touch you.

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    Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that’s the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It’s why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it’s what’s so great about Wikipedia.

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      i’m of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit… they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation’s access to it.

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        Occam’s Razor.

        The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.

        Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.

        Because profits.

        No conspiracy necessary.

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    If he doesn’t want to accept dissenting opinions, he should do like Mr. Burns and only allow prefabricated text.
    Lisa: “Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?”

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        If i recall, at the time sub owners could designate anyone as a moderator without them having to accept the position, meaning that its very possible he was made a mod of the subreddit as a joke/troll but never actually interacted with it.

        Hes still a dipshit though

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          Yep. Zach Braff’s AMA account was made a moderator for a bunch of hardcore porn subs. Probably still is.

          You would still expect better from a site’s founder than an actor who probably still had a Hotmail account at the time

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          Correct. Early reddit you could add whoever you wanted as a mod to your subreddits, no invites required. This changed after a crab bucket subreddit was created and got up to several hundred mods re-adding anyone who left.

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        He is clearly steeped in 2000s chan culture, and jb was a big part of it at that time. It’s a big part of the reason I stopped using 4chan, because it got to the point where there was too much chance of randomly coming across that shit. Reading between the lines, it’s very likely that he’s a fucking pedo.

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    Spez has like a bunch of fore written answers and then tries to fit them in the questions asked

    -TitusRex, hero, probably banned now as well

    lmao

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    He did a talk and Q&A in England awhile back at I believe Oxford and he kept checking his watch, it just seemed rude.

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    he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate’s Web site as a prank.

    What a fun little image that conjures up.