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[–] kep 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No! I'm just trying to see the community with beautiful shots & light-hearted facts for now while I still get my bearings with Lemmy.

Any photos I've personally taken I mark with [oc], like the fairyfly stuff. I'll make it more clear in the future that I didn't take these.

[–] kep 4 points 2 years ago

"It just works (with limited compatibility)"

[–] kep 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"It just works"

[–] kep 2 points 2 years ago

Fair enough, I suppose we'll see soon enough. And it may or may not be extremely cathartic. :D

[–] kep 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But that's the thing. She isn't taking the L on this. That's my point. She seems to just be chillin', doing fuck all. Everyone knows it's Musk running it.

This isn't a case where he needed to bring in a fall guy CEO for a difficult business choice. This is a case where he brought in a new CEO to literally save the corporation, and she's doing nothing and nobody is blaming her. It's surreal.

[–] kep 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Nobody is talking about it, but does that advertising exec that Musk hired for CEO take a massive hit to her career for any of this?

It seems surreal to have a ghost CEO who isn't responsible for anything such a large company does. But that's exactly what's happening here.

[–] kep 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Describing the various ways in which you mitigated the intrusiveness of reddit's awards is not exactly corroborating your argument that the awards were fine. I'm also struggling to see the symbolic value of a badge that indicates you paid the administrators. The award system did not build upon the original sorting mechanism of upvotes in any meaningful way.

[–] kep 49 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I know the timing lends itself to dogpiling, but honestly? Good for them. Throughout the fog, reddit made a solid choice - awards and coins were absolutely fucking stupid. I had posted regularly on reddit since 2011 or so. The coin shit distracted from the original sorting system - upvotes/downvotes.

Of course, hindsight belies that even that algorithm was bullshit the entire time. Alas, fuck reddit. Good riddance.

[–] kep 9 points 2 years ago

It's the latter.

[–] kep 6 points 2 years ago

Emotionally oxymoronic?

[–] kep 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It pains me to defend a corpo, but calling Google unreliable for their "fling shit and see what sticks" methodology for developing new products is inaccurate. Google/Alphabet is actually one of the most reliable corpos in the tech sphere, relatively-speaking, if you analyze their core products throughout the years.

Yes, it does feel like Google retires projects faster than they instantiate them. But that's by design. The core product (selling advertising on SERPs/YouTube/AdWords/etc) is about as reliable as it gets, and that's where they get their money.

Obligatory "fuck corporations."

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