JonEFive

Good.

Signed - a grumpy former network admin.

I’m mostly joking and for those wondering why it matters, we’re out of public IPv4 addresses and ISPs are starting to go IPv6 only in some places. From the post:

New ISPs in my country are IPv6-only because there is no new IPv4 space to be provided to them. They do have a over-shared IPv4 address by CGNAT but due to the oversharing, it is unstable and not rare to be offline. For these companies, the internet access is stable only in IPv6.

Businesses valuations and a business’ success overall unfortunately don’t always correlate to what the business seemingly has to offer. In this case, reddit is not going to be sold as a community website, but rather a marketing tool.

It’s as the saying goes - if the service is free, you’re the product. I think there will be a decline in active users and overall engagement, which I suspect might lead to fewer ad impressions. Spez is banking on the fact that eliminating third party apps will make up for that.

So long as there is a critical mass of users - which there will be for the foreseeable future, and so long as Spez only goes half Musk and doesn’t turn the site into an alt-right paradise, I see reddit potentially becoming profitable. Advertisers who have been scared away from Twitter/X might be looking to go somewhere safer and might find that in Reddit once all this controversy blows over.

And it will blow over in terms of relevance to advertisers. The API controversy doesn’t concern the average person. Even a CEO being a petulant child is barely worth mentioning to most.

Reddit users assumed that the site was for them. Spez has made it clear that it is not, that it is for advertisers. As much as I hate to say it, there will be plenty of people jumping on the Reddit IPO from that perspective.

I’d say a significant decrease in valuation just before IPO is some consequence. Not enough to truly impact Spez personally mind you, but it’s something.

I’m more satisfied with my experience here personally. I don’t scroll for hours, I read a couple articles, maybe comment on them and move on. If I come across something interesting that isn’t already posted in my community here, I’ll actually post it because it might actually get some engagement.

One reddit, my post would either be removed by overzealous mods or generally ignored. I had one instance where I posted a question on r/askScience. I searched before I posted but couldn’t find a post that asked the same question. A mod removed it saying that it was too similar to other posts. When I asked which post it was similar to, the mod said “You need to search for yourself, we aren’t librarians” then muted me for 10 days so I couldn’t respond. The sheer ego trip of the matter just appalled me. I thought that a community about scientific inquiry would be a bit more open, but nope - just as toxic as every other sub.

It all started as a stock market manipulation scheme. Now that “Daddy” told him he had to make good on his commitments, he’s throwing a tantrum and saying “well, if I’m forced to buy it, I own it. And if I own it, I can do whatever I want with it. So I guess I will can just do this!” and he proceeds to destroy it. Just another spoiled brat rich kid who doesn’t like being told what to do.

They literally tried to postpone it until after November 2024. The DOJ wanted to start in December this year. Canon seems to have split the difference.

IRC… Now that’s a protocol I’ve not thought about in a long time

depends on the desires of the majority of the community I would say. If the majority of the community says they want to change the community, then who are we to disagree? I’d vote for the change. Unfortunately for that vote, I haven’t been on Reddit since before the blackout. The only reason I’ll be going back will be to delete some/all of my posts.

Plot twist: The AI can detect pirate speak and uses these posts to write dialogue for a pirate character based on a prompt.

Can’t wait for the pirate bluebeard to speak about where his buried API is.