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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps”

So they designed an API that they didn't intend thirdparties to use at all? And documented it publicly without the intention of any devs reading the docs? Right.

What annoys me the most is that they would rather force users to see their ads and interract with their new and useless engagement features than just take payment directly from us, the users, for accessing the API. I'll gladly pay for a premium++ ultra gold plus reddit subscription to continue using Sync. I don't get why they would rather charge the 3rd party devs that literally gives them more users.

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Lemmy users who feel the heaviness of depression, what issue in your life weighs you down the most?

Brainfog. Difficulty concentrating. No desire to do my own programming projects anymore. And without my anti-depressant I cant even muster the will to read a book, what used to be my favorite pastime. Or even take a walk. What annoy me the most is that these are symptoms of depression, but also what seemingly is the reason I'm depressed!

Oh, and stuck in a rented tiny apartment with a roommate who dont clean. And I no longer have the energy to clean for two. But that at least is solvable, I just need to save up money enough to get my own place.

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Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?

Counter point: Any creator blindly putting random ad networks on their site doesn't care about their users. Every ad should be vetted and served by the creator, those kinda ads are impossible to mass-block. If an ad swindles a user, it should be the creators reputation thats at stake.

I stopped having a bad conscience for blocking when one blog who begged promised to not autoplay any audio. The very next day it of course showed a very loud ad, and the creator excused it with "he didn't have any control over what the advertisement network showed".

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what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?

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My image viewer of choice will never implement it, they replied when I suggested, because the spec isn't standardized. And because they consider themselves photography viewer/editor, not an image viewer. Understandable.

The webp is a format used exclusively for web graphics with no practical use in digital photography, moreover, the technical documentation is not really standardized so it makes it really challenging to ensure 100% support. Mainly for those reasons, the webp is not supported in ZPS X

Im using it because it got the best tag manager/tag browser, not for the photo features.

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Lawyers using ChatGPT cite 6 fake cases

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They haven't been disbarred yet? LegalEagle did a hilarious episode about these back when it happened. They were lazy and extremely dumb. Once the judge asked for clarification about the missing cases, they used chatgpt again to make up fictional details about the cases.