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A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform

I never looked into the community behind those transcriptions but I always thought it seemed like good work. Individually a small effort, but collectively I bet it made a big difference for those who benefitted. And it looks like they did a lot more work than I ever saw.

It's too bad they invested so much into bettering a company that doesn't appear to have worked with them or even cared that they were bridging gaps in their underdeveloped platform. Funny I could be talking about mods here.

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Apple security updates could be banned by British government

Tory governments regularly ignore expert advice, even when they have commissioned that advice. Look into immigration and drugs policy in the UK and you will find the government often does the opposite of what experts advise them to do. It's one of the ways you know they have an agenda other than "doing the right thing" or even "doing what is best for the country".

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Oooooof

Is that even a complaint you can raise against the national archives? I didn't think they would have stolen relics like the British museum has...

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Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

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This is the root of it. Reddit is not profitable (like twitter) and between my experience of Reddit over the years and stuff spez said in recent interviews, and the whole blackout situation recently, it's obvious that profit is the main driver for the business. It's funny referring to Reddit as a business, but that is now its primary purpose and descriptor.

I imagine the past few years have had a knock-on effect on social media businesses including Reddit, just as it has for the energy, food etc industries. What are the margins per user for ads served? It's got to be razor thin these days especially when Reddit employs thousands of people doing who knows what. I know they had to hold off their IPO due to the market and recently laid off some staff, they are clearly in bad shape as a business.

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Updated: Reddit is quietly restoring deleted AND overwritten posts and comments

Would this actually be a GDPR breach? I was thinking about the right to erasure/to be forgotten earlier in relation to a post I saw about how your posts aren't deleted on other federated instances, if you delete them on your home server. But I figured it wasn't applicable because it's not personal data and I'm thinking the same about this Reddit issue. Can anyone set me straight?

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Whats with the Lemmygrad hate?

Some drama is just down to their politics (authoritarian Marxist Leninist in the main), and some relating to their moderation based on politics (bans for users posting articles critical of China, allegedly). You should be able to search and find recent treads, here is one I still had a tab open from yesterday:

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/171975/TIL-lemmy-ml-is-a-pro-authoritarian-CCP-shill-instance

Another part of this is people's concerns about whether their politics influences their development of Lemmy.

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Regarding the “Rust” shooting.

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I'm not sure what his involvement as a producer was, but I know a producer doesn't "pay the bills". It's a vague enough term that it could mean he was showrunning, writing, financing. Prett much anything. It could be that he wanted the title for awards or it could be that he had many responsibilities including ensuring that the professionals involved were qualified and experienced enough for their roles - from what I remember, the armourer and some camera crew were probably not.

Sorry, I didn't follow this case so I don't know all the details.

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What's your favorite game you never hear anybody talk about?

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God, I loved RoN! It was like a better version of Empire Earth which, to me, was already like a better version of Age of Empires.

I mostly enjoyed the era changing, my favourite being the Napoleonic era. And I remember it having a good choice of campaigns/scenarios to play.

I thought RoN would spawn a series of titles but I think they just had Rise of Legends which was interesting but definitely not the same.