Nah I think it's clear he wanted it to leak. He's just an egomaniac who thinks he's actually a good leader. That section of the memo was for investor confidence. (It'll pass, no revenue effect so far, etc.) The other part about warning employees not to wear Reddit gear in public for fear of violence was meant for the press and for the uninformed, to try to garner sympathy and paint the protestors as bad actors.

The stupid part is nobody really cares how much they want to charge to organizations wanting to train AI models. Literally all they have to do is offer a reasonable price for third party app developers. It's not that hard to have different price tiers for different use cases.

Cool. I was going to hold out hope that something might change. But I've just deleted my account of 12+ years.

Not mentioned in the in the article or interview but DS9 of course also did an episode set in 2024 with no mention of the Eugenics Wars or WW3. Picard did reference its Sanctuary Districts though which was nice.

And yeah this was an issue in the pilot, when Like summarized Earth history. Events spiral from the Second American Civil War into the Eugenics Wars and ultimately World War III.

Also for any non-Americans I-95 is the major artery for traffic up and down the East coast. It runs from Miami, FL to the Canadian border in Maine.

TIL. Always looked at them as the cool California chain. (I'm easy coast, none here.)

So. One thing I've noticed is that privated subs on mobile return an error (403 forbidden). I can't help but wonder if they have a crush of mobile users hammering the API over and trying to refresh their favorite sub because they can't see the message explaining that it's been privated.

That being said, I really hope Steve Huffman doubles down on the API changes and kills Reddit as a platform. Nothing would make me happier.

I think this all depends on their reaction to the blackout planned for the 12th. If Reddit starts taking over the default/large subs that shut down it's 100% going to crash and burn. Not backing down on their API changes I think is an optimistic 60/40 in favor of Reddit chugging along albeit just a bit crappier for it all. (The 40% being a Digg situation that hopefully blows up their IPO plans and VC funding.)

Their problem is that iMessage falls back to that instead of them adopting RCS, and treats MMS in particular way worse (terrible image quality, etc)

It's one of the smartest moves they've made in a while, kicking Twitter over as it crashes. Of course, I hope it is de-federated because otherwise Meta will be monetizing data from other instances, guaranteed.

This should come as a shock to basically no one. Did everyone forget they were spliced directly into AT&T's fiber sucking up everything they wanted during the Bush administration? Of course they're buying this legally available for sale information.

Just from the look of it, Thunder seemed very RIF-like. Last I saw TalkLittle was making an app for Tildes, no indication that he's working on a Lemmy app sadly.

It'll be interesting to see if that number climbs once Windows 10 reaches EOL.

Or they can bitch at Apple to fix their SMS/MMS problems.

They had one too many miscues with updating Windows Phone and breaking compatibility. WP7 devices couldn't upgrade to WP8. They waited until WP8.1 to roll out the WinRT platform with cross- compatability between PC and mobile apps. Then 10 died before they could get the Android bridge stuff working.

Their app problem was made worse by Google's direct sabotage. They were constantly taking down any third party YouTube app and at one point were even jerking Microsoft around -- offered to allow MS to develop a YT app in partnership with Google. Everything was fine through development and testing until just before release. Then Google informed MS that the app was no longer acceptable, and they were required to use only HTML5 and no native code.

It's not an attempt at an insanity defense. He's just a moron and doesn't actually know how plea deals work.

I think this is the main reason for the insane prices, but it could have easily been avoided. They don't need to have one price class for every type of use of their Data API. They could have easily had one rate for LLM and other AI training uses and another for third party client applications. I feel like at some point they realized they'd rather just kill the third parties while they're at it and this seemed like the logical moment.

From what I understand, even paid use of the API prohibits 3rd party ads under the new terms. So that $20M/year they wanted to charge Apollo? Yeah it also meant /u/iamthatis couldn't serve ads on top of that.

They usually let them go until something blew up on mainstream news. For jailbait, it got in national TV news. Then it came down. Before that? Not a peep.

One former Reddit employee elsewhere surmised it was more likely because of how they cache posts in order for the "multireddit" feature. When a bunch of posts suddenly vanished it threw that whole system into disarray.