Timberborners!

How long did it take to get the reply?

Haha, even local calls were too expensive for that to really happen in the U.K. so I missed out on that step!

Just add usenet on the front end there.

I don’t know about traffic, but this is a great live view of the subs going private: https://reddark.untone.uk

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Or dafter people. Looking at you RCE.

Does that mean we’re spamming your timeline when we reply here? 😀

Indeed. If you read the actual statement they got, you’ll find that The Verge has been very irresponsible in how they reported it.

“We’ve connected with select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs and offered them exemptions from our large-scale pricing terms,” Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt says in a statement to The Verge.

This is just PR fire-fighting. There’s no commitment to do this for any other apps. If people prefer the different accessibility features of other apps, then they will remain screwed.

Haha, -1 is the cruelest number. Much more negative than that and you can just blame the hivemind. But the fact that just a couple of people think you’re wrong makes you really want to start explaining why they’re wrong to downvote you.

It will. It will make the mods and the power-users realise that Reddit don’t care and won’t change course. Then it’s up to them.

No. They will unperson any recalcitrant mods and drop in their own henchmen. 90% of Redditors won’t know what has happened and will just end up watching many more old videos of kittens falling over posted by bots as Reddit slowly follows Digg into irrelevancy.

The Reddit board will continue to focus on charging AI bros through the nose for access to our content until they all get bored and leave the wreckage with their pockets full of loot.

I wasn’t a poster, but I will never forget the terrible secret of space. I remember lying in bed trying to read that to my partner through tears of laughter.

Pak chooie unf.

Any puzzly or exploring games that suddenly introduce a twitch response element. Having to successfully jump onto a sequence of 14 wildly gyrating levitating rocks to get to my next “thoughtfully re-arrange some tiles” challenge has caused me to leave so many games unfinished. Basically if I can’t deal with it by mashing every button at random, it ain’t gonna happen.

This would work especially well for sites that choose to use clickbaity headlines like “Is this the year of Linux on the desktop?”. On reddit that would inevitably end up with lots of “No” posts from people who hadn’t even thought of clicking on the link.

It’s nice to see you worrying about how to combat the spammers already too 😀

Usenet! What is dead may never die.

“It’s all LISP-based. And it’s astonishingly slow.”

If you build it, they will come.

There’s going to be lots of other challengers out there: I’m sure every ML postgrad with any nous has spent the last couple of months contacting every funder they can track down to explain how their model is going to knock the socks off the old fashioned models used by these lumbering corporations.

And even the established models have been shown to contain content obtained in violation of user licences and copyright laws, leaving them open to all sorts of legal and political challenges. They will all be scrambling now to demonstrate that they’ve got clean hands in future models.

It will be like the NFT gold rush all over again—the only sure way to get rich is to sell the shovels.

Great. Tesla Autopilot is busy killing people while ChatGPT tells us to chill out about it. They’re already ganging up on us.

Or for the paranoid, edit then delete 😀