@ernest, if Kbin starts making okay money, don't be afraid to give yourself a salary. It's important that you get to eat too.

My assumption here is that Huffman may win the battle, but he might lose the war. Even if he manages to get the rampaging mods under control, how much damage will he do in the process?

r/pics will probably end up going NSFW, which gets another major sub to lose ad revenue. Can Reddit manage to get all these subs back on topic without pulling some fascist takeover of the mod teams? These malicious compliance subs aren't explicitly breaking any rules, and taking action against them will just fan community outrage more.

They can obviously ban NSFW material, but that'll force a migration far faster than any blackout ever could. Not to mention 3rd party apps going dark on July 1st, which might see a not insignificant drop off of mobile users.

Reddit has likely begun its slow descent, and u/spez's best long term strategy would be to reverse course and keep the public API. Of course, he'll never do that since that just communicates to any investors that you have no control over your community. Not sure how he digs his way out of this one.

Honestly, mods should just force the issue and make Reddit replace them. It's going to be a big problem if Reddit needs to find new moderators for hundreds if not thousands of subreddits. And that's assuming all the new moderators will play along and not immediately join the protest, go on a tyrannical power trip, or just go dark after a few weeks.

Why would anyone even want to be a mod right now? It's like your boss threatening to fire you from a job you're not paid for while the building is actively on fire.

Oh shit, don't let Lemmy know about that.

I think this has done damage to Reddit, but it'll be death by a thousand cuts rather than a big instantaneous failure.

To be honest, I really don't care what happens to Reddit at this point. I'd rather have Kbin be a smaller, more dedicated community than have it "kill Reddit".

Obviously Facebook took off once it dropped the 'college student' requirement and opened up to the general population. But once that first generation aged up, the younger generation didn't follow and Facebook became the place your grandma posts Biden conspiracy theories. Widening your target audience can get you an initial boost of users, but you end up competing with every other platform doing the same thing. Then some new platform opens up, all the cool kids go there, and the old platforms gradually get dumber, withers away, and dies.

Now that I'm in my thirties, I can answer this. Two things come to mind.

First, really should have just done college after high school. I really wasn't looking forward to more school after graduation and wasted about 5 years before going back for my CS degree. I'm in a good place now, but could have had a 5 year head start on life if I'd just gone straight in.

Second, please take better care of your health while you have it. I was skinny as a rail in my early 20s and sort of took that for granted. I'm not obese or anything right now, but as you get older keeping in shape takes conscious upkeep. Get in the habit now and it'll be easier to maintain later. It's harder to lose the weight once you have it rather than keep it off.

Oh look, it's the fugitive slave act again.

No, I have people to do that for me.

Yeah, like at a massive deficit, all while making sweeping policy changes at a moments notice with little research on how those changes effect stability. Also, cutting down on employed staff to save money while not bothering to investigate what those people actually do, to later realize it only when things start breaking. Only instead of some shitty social media platform he's fucking with, it'll be the United States economy!

He's got my vote!

You can't just put anime catgirl in parenthesis and move on like nothing happened!

Yeah it's support a platform, make that platform dependent on you, then abandon the platform. The users who remain are left with the option of abandoning the platform as well, or sit in a graveyard.

Evidently playing the game isn't a fun experience either, Aaron.

His point is he doesn't want to be shown everything. He wants a distinction between material that's inappropriate for a workplace environment, and porn.

This is an important point. We're all pissed at LTT right now so are eager to jump on any story that supports that narrative. I'm not saying I don't believe Madison (what she says pretty much lines up with what I would expect). But before we convict Linus in the court of public opinion, we should allow him to argue in his defense.

You can be as selfish as you want when it comes to dating. You don't have to do anyone any favors. You can reject people over the most petty of reasons. That's all fine. The person who has to live with it is you, after all.

There are only two people in a relationship, and neither of them should be required to settle for the other. Even if your reasons are bigoted and stupid, no one can make you date someone.

My advice for picking a degree: pick something that you want to do, but also something marketable. The degree is useless if you can't get a job in it.

If you're worried about college being difficult, it can be, but 95% of your success is going to be based on motivation. I was a TA in college, and the best students were the ones that asked questions, came to office hours, and participated. I saw many a "smart kid" bomb a test due to overconfidence.

If you're not sure what to do, you can start with general education credits or even do the first part of your degree at a community college to save money. A lot of times a 2 year associates degree will serve as the first 2 years of a bachelor's.

Yeah, I think the real message here is that people want stable, full featured games at release. There are a lot of games that still are stuck with a reputation as broken, barely finished messes long after those issues have been resolved. I see people shit talk Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky to this day, even those those games currently sit in a much better state than they did at launch. First impressions matter.

The real lesson developers need to take away from this is that if you put the time in to make sure your game is finished before released, it performs a lot better at launch.

You let the foxes into the hen house, then get upset that you're out of hens?

A lot of people mention the waiver, which...sure, there's some assumption of the risk for diving to the bottom of the ocean. But a waiver won't exclude you from gross incompetence and negligence.

If I ran an indoor trampoline park, I may have you sign a waiver before you can use it. This makes sense, as jumping on trampolines carries with it some inherit risk of physical injury. That's a risk you have to acknowledge before you can come in. However, if you got injured because the building caught on fire, and due to my negligence I've blocked all the fire exits with flammable material, that's a bit beyond the assumption of risk covered by the waiver. I would totally be liable for any damages that result.

Did the Titan implode due to the inherit risk of deep sea exploration? Or did it implode due to a dereliction of safety precautions? (It's that one)