the biggest thing to me, in terms of server load, is that reddit does not need to host videos/images. It's a link aggregate.
I'm only a layman in this particular field, but I imagine it's a lot lighter on resources to direct people to sites streaming video than to host and serve it all yourself.
hm, do edits not propagate through federated instances? I edited that comment an hour or two after posting when I realized, but I've had several replies today that seem to be based on the original version, all from users on different instances.
~~nitter.net is a good mirror, I have an extension called LibRedirect that sends me there automatically instead of twitter. no need to login just to read a single tweet or something that way 🙂~~
edit: sorry for the misinformation, I'd just woken up at the time and definitely misread - I didn't realize twitter had made the change today from needing an account to click around to needing one to view anything at all. Nitter doesn't seem to work anymore 🙁
does that still work with stuff like the new twitch ad system?
I just discovered you can just refresh on those and it'll sort out the thread. Up until now, I'd thought I was just misclicking every time haha
Don't worry. When it's time, it'll find you.
Huh, I went straight to settings when I opened it but all I saw was text size. It has more options for you?
It leans very heavily towards snark and very rarely towards empathy or interacting as though there's actually a human on the other side of the screen.
And yeah, that's exhausting. It takes very little effort to not be mean to strangers, but it seems like an impossibility for so many people online these days.
*holds up spork*
I’m afraid allowing memes, even on a single day, could be a slippery slope,
yeah, I think trying to make everyone happy with forced coexistence (instead of just having two distinct areas) might actually be likely to only create more friction
I voted for that, but almost immediately regretted not going for the "none at all" option.
The people that want a gaming meme community want that. They don't want a 2000 word eurogamer deep dive or the Verge breaking down some publisher deal, they just want a meme page. The people that want a nice hub for gaming headlines of the day aren't generally looking for that to be replaced 15% of the time with image macros of Geralt making a funny face in a cutscene.
Splitting that into two communities (like /c/Games and c/gamingmemes or something) seems like the best way to allow for both spaces to exist for people who want that environment, when they want it, without the additional friction of them trying to coexist and appeal to different groups of people. I can understand why that compromise feels like a good way to make everyone happy (and it's why I voted for it initially!) but I'm just not convinced that it's a better solution than two distinct spaces with their own distinct approaches.
oh man, I'm glad I'm not the only one that's always been annoyed by that on reddit.
So many times, you'd just get a post like "man you know this guys a real one" with a picture of some pixelated lifeguard, 30 comments of people like "yeah thats my boy 🙌🙌🙌", and then one poor guy at the bottom sitting at -30 just trying to find out what's going on.
(they said "like 6 months before he bought it", not "like 6 months ago, before he bought it")