Total Annihilation... couldn't get enough of it. Even playing strategy games today I desperately miss the elaborate control and mechanics of TA.

The beehaw admin said, to grossly paraphrase, they don't have enough admins to deal with the extra activity and they're "mildly annoyed" that sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world have "open registration" policies as they feel it invites trolls and the like.

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Edit: full post if you want to read it. I left out some stuff about ethos and spirit and stuff.

Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.

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Huffman acknowledged that if those users instead browsed with Reddit's own app, it would shore up the company's bottom line.

Hmm.

I'm a JetBrains person. I like vim, but I also heavily use IDE features and VSCode just never scratched the right itches. I've worked with many people who use VC but when I pair with them and watch their workflows, they simply aren't as efficient, as if they're unaware of what a proper IDE can actually do. They also complain when VC extensions get mature and become paid extensions, which hasn't been a problem with JB.

I use Copilot with JetBrains, but it's only "cool", not "awesome". When I really need help with some code Copilot rarely does the right thing, and JB's code completion already works really well. I know Copilot for VC is better than for JB and they claim they're going to bring parity to JB at some point, but this article makes me suspect they're lying. If they don't I'm going to start shopping for competitors.

We'll make some plugin that downloads the ad and tells Google it was "totally watched and stuff".

🤣 I didn't think you were trying to tell me something, I figured the Lemmy code goofed somewhere.

Twitter isn't like reddit in that hashtags don't have moderators. They outsourced moderating to the users, and now Musk has decided to remove it entirely.

I don't get it.

It's not how they managed success, it's that they ran out of it. Making a successful niche kitchen appliance is not a business, it's one of many things that a successful niche kitchen appliance business does.

Successful businesses also allocate capital optimally, build formidable brand and product moats, hire amazing managers and build fortified balance sheets. They forgot to do all that stuff. (See also: reddit)

Same. Angry VC money is a demon that's not worth summoning.

This is a good thermometer reading. I'm pretty sure many communities are prepared to extend this indefinitely if current plans aren't reverted. I do believe him when he says

We absolutely must ship what we said we would.

I don't know who the angry VCs are who get to pull his strings but if this gets their attention - it may or it may not - reddit might budge on things a bit.

At the end of the day the company is hopeless to make a profit with him at the helm. This memo sounds slightly nervous and lacks confidence. He has no clue what he's doing.

Has that happened with Mastodon?

Orgs spending volunteer money have to be careful, they have to allocate money to their stated causes or they could get in trouble. A Lemmy instance would have to coincide with their agenda.

A philanthropist can do what they want, but they could still attract criticism for not donating to world hunger or some more optics-friendly cause. They'd also probably end up with a fairly popular instance which would require effort spent on maintenance and moderation.

I think people who actually want to run instances will end up running them. I'm considering starting one. Some of those will end up running really good, stable and desirable instances which can then attract donations for the cause.

I joined reddit in 2007 but I'd been surfing it for a year or so already. Early reddit was amazing. There were no subreddits yet, which was fine, there weren't that many users. The concept of subreddits was innovative when they introduced them, but once you could create your own it was pretty mind blowing.

I always felt like reddit was "hiding" from the common folk. It had a plain white background with default blue & purple links and it looked like someone's personal project. Digg had lots of gradients and borders and glitz but reddit had a real "function over form" quality that really appealed to me as an engineer.

It makes me sad to think about how many terrible things it's been put through by its dumb ding dong owners over the years.