I'm sure Spez will think its a win, but the rest of the world knows that when John recognizes your fuckery, you're in trouble. Man knows how to throw an intellectual punch.
jcrm
joined 2 years ago
The end of Twilight Princess is permanently embedded into my mind. Just the silence of Ganondorf standing with the sword plunged through his chest is incredible and a little haunting at the end of that game.
That, and when my dad showed me DOOM. That was a good day.
I think Reddit's vote system was pretty near perfect, especially in the early days. You should upvote your own posts by default. I also prefer having a combined "score" rather than different scores for upvotes and downvotes.
Oh, and can we get a "sort by top" for comments? I miss that from Reddit.
This article has some strange framing to me.
Currently, these protests are impacting a small percentage of Reddit’s more than 100,000 active communities.
This completely ignores that the 8000+ subreddits that went dark account for a VAST majority of content and traffic on the site.
Because for this to work long term we need adoption. Protocols only work if there is large adoption, which means making all this comprehensible to more than just the tech nerds that are really into it. Plus isn't the whole idea to get everyone to start using these open protocols so we can make the internet a more open place? It defeats the point if we essentially just make this in to a niche silo too.
Also, I think "fediverse" is really bad branding. It makes this whole thing feel too close to those crypto-scammers.
I don't see this as a bad thing. I hate Facebook with a passion, but if it means more money going into UX development of federated services, I'm all for it. To me that's the biggest problem with them right now.
The concerns about data use are worth noting, but I don't think are to be worried about. They can get the data anyway, and what we really need is better data privacy laws in place in general.
I'm genuinely sad. Not to be dramatic, but there were times where Reddit saved my life. Seeing the number of comments and posts I had made while I was scrubbing my account hit me harder than I thought it would.