postscarce

joined 1 year ago
[–] postscarce@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you want to avoid counting towards reddit's traffic, take a look at LibReddit / LibRedirect

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit
https://libredirect.github.io

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TOTK performance on switch is not bad at all. I don't know where what perception came from. I haven't experienced any low frame rate issues after 100 hours.

 

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Anything that challenges the status quo is inevitably going to make some people uncomfortable.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media "monopolies". Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.

From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they're not everything): People won't jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.

More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.

There's a snowball effect, and maybe one day we'll get out from under our rich social media overlords.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I look at it from the standpoint of federated social media dethroning the reigning social media "monopolies". Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and now Reddit have shown that they want engagement at all costs and will prioritize profit over people. The faster they die, the better.

From this perspective, numbers and growth are important (although of course they're not everything): People won't jump ship to a new platform unless there is a critical mass of users, because a platform needs a sufficient number of users to provide the same variety of user generated content and communities that people have come to expect.

More people using federated social media also means more developers, better apps, and a better user experience for everyone using it.

There's a snowball effect, and maybe one day we'll get it from under our rich social media overlords.

 

And it doesn’t really matter if it’s technically a trust.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I use GitHub Desktop for 95% of my git needs, terminal for the other 5%

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is epic level malicious compliance. Best way to run a SFW sub into the ground is opening it up to NSFW content.

 

If you're like me, you have a habit of typing reddit.com whenever you have some time to kill at a computer.

Kicking habits takes time, so as you develop a new habit of typing kbin.social (or lemmy.world or whatever the case may be), consider a browser extension that blocks or redirects traffic from reddit to your desired new social media destination.

For Firefox, I have found these to be helpful over the last week:

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Slow for me as well (North America). It can take 10-15 seconds to load a page or perform an action like upvoting.