Oh so that's what the Spider-Man meme was about. Zuck knew this was coming.
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I feel like most of the useful Linux stuff just got yeeted from forums and into Reddit. If there's nothing in the Arch wiki that's easy to follow it's a trying time to find answers that relate to your issue that are also up to date.
Sheesh, imagine being a fly on that wall now.
I work for an online retailer for computer components. Reddit helped/helps give me perspective of what people think about tech products, what they're looking to buy, and I used it to keep up with the news in the hardware-focused subreddits. Reddit's community is sufficiently large enough that there are opinions you can read from enthusiasts to homelabbers to people who don't know what to do when Windows screws up their Radeon Software installation.
As a former technical writer, it helps fill in gaps about things I don't know enough about, like where people on lower budgets actually choose to spend their money in a build, and whether or not the RTX 4060 is actually terrible, as opposed to it not meeting expectations of an audience that it's not aimed at.
I similarly have separate logins. One day there'll be easier integrations, but I don't think kbin is it for now.
After today's update, Lemmy runs like a dream. Happy with my move. I only use Reddit for work and in a desktop browser now.
Stuff is pretty smooth now!
As the saying goes, "Everything old is new again."
That's not a realistic proposal if Facebook volunteers dev resources to improve and support ActivityPub and we grow to rely on that. In the same way that Google co-opted the W3C to now just accept Chrome as the default, I can see something similar happen if Threads really kicks off and has a ton of effort put into it.
It's a lot more grey than you'd expect given the absurd resources that nation states have compiled to try and usurp Google's dominance, but all the same I'd rather not have the internet rely on something made by a publicly traded company that cuts projects on a whim.
Sometimes I wonder if 4Chan's model is really the one we should be implementing, somehow. Remove individuality via the profile names and avatars people use to post under, and things seem to largely work themselves out (speaking as an infrequent visitor that has surface-level knowledge of the politics of 4Chan).
Sure, you can do something similar with throwaway accounts on places like Reddit, but it's not quite the same.
"We recommend updating your password every 90 days!"
Why, you haven't lost it recently, have you?
My money is on Twitter employees and core engineers.