Right, but if you’re request for denied for something medically necessary unless you revealed it, you went anyway (because it’s necessary), and then you got fired… That feels like it shouldn’t be legal (obviously that doesn’t mean that it isn’t).
Formerly /u/Zalack on Reddit.
Right, but if you’re request for denied for something medically necessary unless you revealed it, you went anyway (because it’s necessary), and then you got fired… That feels like it shouldn’t be legal (obviously that doesn’t mean that it isn’t).
I’m not sure it would be legal if they were forced to reveal medical information.
I think better algorithms wouldn’t be a waste of developer resources. At the end of the day, the post feed algorithm is the core product, IMO.
Figuring out how to lower the weights on highly active subs is a good idea. As is ranking smaller subs’ content appropriately.
For all it’s faults, Reddit’s algorithm was pretty good. There was always a decent mix of small and large subs on my feed.
Kbin’s post ranking overall seems better than Lemmy’s and that was a major factor in me choosing it as my home base.
Yeah, I bought gold a few times. I had no problem with “this content was so good it inspired me to give back a little to the free service we’re all using.”
I wouldn’t mind some equivalent for the fediverse honestly. Let me donate to the home server of a user who’s comment I thought was especially good.
I know you can donate directly, but I do think there was something about also making another user’s day that felt good about the Gold system. The service gets some fuel in the tank and the comment author gets a little boost to their mood. It was nice.
I agree it got way too out of hand when they moved beyond Gold though.
I came in here annoyed at them gaming the system and you totally turned my perspective around on it. Makes perfect sense.
Yeah, it could be at 14%! D:
Yup, Relay is working fine for me. The Dev said it will remain free through this month and then switch a subscription.
Maybe it’s because I ejected the default subs out of my list a long time ago, but I haven’t gotten downvotes for it at all
Since Relay is still working right now I check back once or twice a day.
After being on Kbin for the last couple weeks, it’s amazing to me how shitty and toxic Reddit feels in comparison now. I’m basically only going there to check a couple niche subs, then bounce.
I’m also only commenting to suggest people check out Lemmy/Kbin, haha.
Oooh. I like that better
I personally like Rexxitors
I’m not saying it should be illegal to release games for only one console. Obviously not every studio is going to have the bandwidth to develop for every platform, and some games will use special features of some systems.
What I’m saying is that it should be illegal for console makers to give any special incentives or preference to developers to do so artificially.
Console exclusives are anti consumer and it should be illegal for console makers to offer any incentive to developers – including studios they own – to make a game exclusive.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
You could engineer it so users could provide their own algorithm.
It would be a HARD engineering problem, but not impossible, IMO.
The goal should be to allow users to choose their own algorithm, including third party algorithms you can install yourself or something.
A big part of it is people are just angry and stressed in general because the system we live in is fundamentally broken (pretty much no matter where you are in the world, though I am speaking through an American lens since the majority of Reddit is American).
Everyone can feel the effects of an economy and government that just doesn’t work for them. We’re fundamentally divided on how to fix it. Minorites are directly under attack and that manages to leach into most conversations, either directly or sideways. It makes people incredibly defensive.
The fediverse has a higher barrier to entry and, statistically, tech-minded people skew liberal. We’re a self-selecting community that is just more likely to agree – for instance – that trans people are people.
Further, since these services are decentralizedv and self-hosted, we can literally make hate groups unwelcome/banned from our instances because there is no profit motivation for hand-wringing like there is with Reddit.
PSA for non-developers: “six-months” in the software world is slang for “optimistically, one year”.
Also the fact that they were involving the third party app maintainers at all. There’s no technical reason that REDDIT couldn’t put the payment mechanisms in place to block USERS from making API calls through Oauth Apps. If you pay whatever subscription fee your account can make calls through whatever third party app you like.
But instead they decided that they were going to charge the APPS for some inane reason, and put figuring out a user-facing payment mechanism on those maintainers.
Sure, but that assumes this manager would be happy with generic “medical stuff” as an answer…