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This is getting posted a lot which is too bad because it’s worse than useless.

Do people not understand how technically useless 80% of users are? They CAN NOT REMEMBER THEIR PASSWORDS. (No, they didn’t write them down. Password management software? lol.)

I’m saying the height of their technical ability is to remember their password. And we want them to switch platforms, away from a fascist right-wing brainwashing troll factory to- what is it called again?

Yeah. It needs a guide with this title, but actually useful. Well-written, with the context that people reading it are already well above and beyond in making an effort.

Why are so many people still on Xitter? I have a fucking idea.

Months of talking heads trying to pretend he’s not guilty as fuck for . . . SOME REASON(s).

Wild guess: holidays screw up everyone’s calendar. If you have a set date in early January it’s very likely to miss unless you spend the holidays preparing for it. Smith would, but the court probably has other cases to hear.

Corrupt liar says what?

What they said

If you refresh the page it usually fixes that too.

The void appears to have calmed down for now, with the current state of the board suggesting a truce among users. That’s good news for those whose art was being obliterated by the movement, though whether Reddit will listen when the money is now rolling in is another matter.

What money is “rolling in”?

[w/r/t API kerfuffle] In some ways, this makes sense: third-party apps let users skip ads, which hits Reddit’s bottom line. The pricing, however, seems steep. Why?

Well, the answer is AI. Basically, former Reddit board member Sam Altman, who departed in 2022, admitted his company, OpenAI, had trained on Reddit data. I find it difficult to believe that Huffman didn’t know OpenAI was training using Reddit’s data, particularly since Altman sat on Huffman’s board. Suddenly, Huffman is saying the API is very valuable, especially to buzzy AI companies that investors have lately had the hots for. This seems to position Reddit as being in the shovels business during the AI gold rush.