spaceribs

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[–] spaceribs 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IE in the 2000's called, it wants it's dream back.

Between this, hobbling adblockers and performing enough monopolistic acts to warrant swift government action, I really see this more as Chrome dying than the web itself.

[–] spaceribs 2 points 1 year ago

No oldies remember Camino? It was such a great browser!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_(web_browser)

[–] spaceribs 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've just been BEAN'D!!! 😱🤣🤫

[–] spaceribs 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

feel free to waste your time and ask anyway!

Are you staring in the sequel to Rampart?

[–] spaceribs 1 points 1 year ago

They were always going to do that, the squeeze is basically required if you're planning on making a public offering and become beholden to investors.

[–] spaceribs 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now just imagine for a moment, the same company in the late 2000s taking a completely different path. Imagine they offered the moderators to become worker-owners and Reddit became a cooperative rather than investor owned.

Imagine how much better the world would have been, and weep for the timeline capitalism just extracted from everyone.

[–] spaceribs 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably pretty straightforward, if clicks are what they're looking to increase as a metric, then sorting by rising was probably not meeting their expectations in terms of clickrate.

[–] spaceribs 13 points 1 year ago

Sure, let me explain:

JSTOR is an online repository where institutions pay a subscription for access to an online library. Aaron Swartz worked to download the entire online library to ensure that it could be provided to all for free. I think it's safe to say that if he were alive today, he would be very much against the actions of his former co-founder, and would be leading the charge.

[–] spaceribs 11 points 1 year ago

annnnd it's gone!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by spaceribs to c/reddit
 

[caption] I wonder how Aaron Swartz would feel about /u/spez's actions in the past few weeks? Would the Admins care to elaborate?

Considering that Reddit now wants to become the new JSTOR, it seems appropriate that we bring up the clear parallels between our current situation and that of the late founder? [/caption]