Yeha, if they are pushing this, the least they can do is lower the amount of ads.

2 ads before a video starts is just too much. Also the constant ads during the videos. Screw that.

No more YouTube for me I guess.

And remember, if the page actually had useful content that wasn't click bait or some shit. Be nice... remove the adblocker and reload.

They gotta pay bills too, having infrastructure deployed to serve content is not free. Don't kill their business if they have quality content.

Mother. Of. God. Did they really write Kbin in PHP?

I may be talking shit because I'm not a PHP coder, but the times I've seen it, it was a nightmare.

Hey, you should try Liftoff (it's an actual app) or Wefwef (a webapp that feels like a native app).

Both of those are much better than Connect.

And the fact the author dances around an idea is why I hate reading articles online or watching YouTube videos. They need to drag the content as much as possible to maximize profit. In a 10 minute video they can push more ads, the same way that in a 10 paragraph article they can push more ads in between paragraphs or on the sides.

I think this quality of content problem vs monetization isn't exclusive to social media.

Then you go with an adblock detection blocker detection blocker. Dhu.

Capitalism generally allows for a range of ownership structures, including traditional privately owned businesses, publicly traded corporations, and worker-owned enterprises.

I guess an argument would be that privately owned companies are already too wealthy to allow for fair market competition, but in worker owned companies nothing is stopping them from becoming large corporations that can also do everything a private lobbyist company does. If you don't believe me, just look at your democratically elected capitalist government. Just because something is democratic doesn't mean it will be ethical or fair internally or externally.

What? There are no horny women dying to know me?

"morality"... What a fucking joke.

The eternal echoes of humanity endure, unyielding to time's capricious grasp.

Isn't general relativity just a way to interpret reality instead of what reality is?

I mean, just a very accurate model of reality. But anything can be anything in any model, which is cool as long as the model has some kind of utility.

(?)

Or, are we accepting that objectively gravity is definetely not a force?

I can't feel anything. That's what she said :(

Women ☕

This is a discussion I'm also interested in. Migrating a monolith to microservices is a big decision that can have serious performance, maintainability and development impact.

Microservices can be very complex and hard to maintain compared to a monolith. Just the deployment and monitoring could turn into a hassle for instance maintainers. Ease of deployment and maintenance is a big deal in a federated environment. Add too much complexity and people won't want to be part of it.

I've seen some teams do hybrids. Like allowing the codebase to be a single artifact or allowing it to be broken by functionalities. That way people can deploy it the easy way or the performant way, as their needs change.

Maybe they wanted a different type of user experience. But yeha, maybe that's something Reddit could pull off because of their infrastructure... And they don't even do it because there's not much user value to it.

Although reddit does use some websockets so you can see how many users are also seeing the post at the same time.

But not websockets for EVERYTHING.

And not being welcomed is going to stop them?