GizmoLion

So who’s bankrolling this?

You wish lol. In truth they can serve this to as many users as they want, and catch garbage outlier responses.

Jesus H Christ… congrats on being the one millionth person on kbin to say “What are YOU doing?” while talking down their literal list of what they are doing.

a-man-from-earth is right, Kbin is in a sorry state right now. I still get asked to login when I want to comment, despite being logged in, at which point it takes me to the home page. Viewing a reply to your comment is still not pagination-aware.

Ernest has said this version of kbin is frozen until he rolls out the next, hopefully the end of September, so by his own admission Kbin as we know and use it is the same pile it was months ago. That said I remain hopeful that the next rollout will be a big improvement.

Back to the topic, if the site isn’t easy and intuitive to use, or if it’s broken and remains a thorn for a long time, then you can’t expect people to go out of their way to do the thing you want them to do. That’s not how the world works.

a-man-from-earth has submitted bug fixes to try and improve the site so people might be more willing to stick around and post themselves, while you’re just posting content that’ll eventually become irrelevant. What are YOU doing? (See? It’s asinine right?)

Trillions of packages delivered successfully, but because some idiot thought waxpaper was a good packing for cookies we should throw out that system? I’d love to hear your thoughts on how such a system would work at that kind of throughput.

Gotta install the last star from snap, I bet.

Put a banner outside saying “no gratuity necessary, the price you see is the price you pay!” and watch what happens.

LMAO What a take! Thanks for the laugh.

Aw shit, look out Elon, here I come!

I see you edited your post. That’ll be 2 CrYpToBuCkS!

Oops, missed a dash, so now you’ll have to come back and finish.

Yep exactly. It also doesn’t make a damned bit of difference that you’ve worded it so clearly a lawyer could cry, and made them agree to a simple acknowledgement.

Not wrong lol. I started reversing it back then.

Absolutely. Computers are great at picking out patterns across enormous troves of data. Those trends and patterns can absolutely help guide policymaking decisions the same way it can help guide medical diagnostic decisions.

That’s the month it happened, so that’s the month people post about it, meaning it’s also the month it’s removed and people cry foul.

I found my productivity went up as my doomscrolling went down, win-win!

Honestly I feel that the outcome was optimal.

1. It created animosity towards Reddit.
2. It exposed major problems with Reddit.
3. It boosted fediverse’s numbers.
4. It tapered off before the fediverse came crashing down from the influx of millions.
5. It reinforced the mandate to develop the fediverse, there’s clearly something here and it’s worth deving towards.
6. Reddit is guaranteed to shoot itself in the foot again, probably pre-IPO, definitely post-IPO, and now the fediverse is being given some much needed time to flesh itself out before they do.

If Reddit collapsed over this I don’t believe the infrastructure exists at this time to onboard all those members, so it’s a blessing in disguise.

Before doing this go to Magazines and subscribe to what appeals to you. Magazine = subreddit