Subreddit drama.
Ethics is meaningless when corporations are doing "research" for profit.
I put it in quotes because a lot of the "research" done by companies doesn't even resemble real scientific research. They use the word to give "we forced a new feature in front of unwilling users, never asked if they liked it, and took them continuing to use the site as liking it" legitimacy when talking to news outlets.
The implication here is that if they are testing it on logged in users, then they will eventually roll it out to ALL users, whether logged in or not.
They want to force more people to download the app so that they can show potential investors how many people are using the app, and so they can mine data off of phones with the app. I fucking guarantee that's what this is.
They are gambling that the people who incidentally land on reddit using their phones to search for things will be more likely to download the app than stop using reddit when it comes up in a search.
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I wasn't thinking to click and hold... I may put a request in for a toggle that lets you swap the single click and click and hold functionality. I'm use to Infinity for Reddit (which I think offered the same) where I press and hold to collapse comments and single tap to open/close comment interactions
I keep seeing people joke about this-do the mods here really ban people for talking about it? It seems like it's a bit of a meme here...
This was pretty much exactly my thought process. My biggest concern here is account stability-from what I can tell, if your instance gets taken down by its owners, your account is gone.
So until the devs figure out a way to centralize account credentials so that isn't an issue, I'd much rather join on a big instance than a small one, especially one that the devs of lemmy themselves own. They have a clear interest in keeping it running, so the chances of my account vanishing are small, just like with bigger social media sites.
The hard reality here is that, much like in real life markets, federated social media will likely tend toward a small number of very large instances and lots of significantly smaller ones. Most people want a stable, consistent experience and don't want to worry about losing communities or accounts. And unless an instance is STRICTLY policing it's communities, like lemmygrad for instance, then I think we will see the same thing happen with communities-right now there are lots of communities that are basically identical, and I think we'll see one or two of each become the "main" ones people use-and those will likely be on larger instances.
When you're worth a hundred billion dollars EVERYTHING is optional. The landlord wants some of that sweet cash so he will tolerate any amount of waiting. Would YOU want to piss off one of the richest men in the world? He's called people pedophiles for significantly less with no evidence at all. He's doxxed people. He has millions of loyal dedicated followers who will harass you and threaten you.
Capital is way more than just money and Elon has more than almost anyone else on the planet.
It's incredibly frustrating, as a developer, how much our jobs keep ballooning to encompass more and more stuff.
I'm expected to be able to work in the backend, frontend (in two DIFFERENT frameworks no less), database, and also to fully understand the infrastructure the code runs on, how to manage and control that infrastructure, how to manage access to that infrastructure, how to interface with that infrastructure in the software I'm working on, and how to do testing from unit to integration testing, and to do ALL of it as well and as fast as it was done 5 years ago- when there was a guy on the team who was the "frontend" guy, a guy who managed everything about AWS, and a dedicated tester.
It's all a scam from management; they cut down on costs by cutting a bunch of jobs and offloading those responsibilities onto the rest of us. But if things break, it all comes down onto my head. And also they don't pay me more for the added responsibility.
Oh, and the real kicker is that all of it is intermittent. Sometimes I spend 3 months doing all backend work as we set up a new microservice. Sometimes, I spend 3 months doing all frontend work as we create a new UI. That intermittency makes it EXTREMELY difficult for me to really master any of it, because I'm jumping around often enough that I don't get enough time to really build a deeper skillset. Then, I'm quietly shamed by management for not spending my spare time developing my skillset to make them more money.
I'm expected to, somehow, keep up to date on 4 different languages, all of the new shortcuts and capabilities of those languages, and also all of the infrastructure that we are using to deploy and manage our code. When I joined the workforce 7 years ago, we were right in the middle of this transition- so, not only did I never get the time to really master any of the languages I work with, I have perpetually felt a kinda strong imposter syndrome- and talking to other developers online and in person, I'm not alone.
The result is that myself and everyone around me are more stressed, producing less optimized and less reliable code that could be WAY better if we had more time (but we don't get more time, because timelines keep getting tighter while management keeps doing what I described above) and are not feeling like we are really learning how to do better.
I know I'm not the only one who feels this way either because I see the same sentiment literally everywhere. It's incredibly frustrating.
If a lot of mods stopped using reddit, it would get absolutely inundated with actual regulatory attacks because it would get flooded with child porn, explicit harrassment, and nazis.
Any of the top 10 communities having enough mods resign would cause absolute havoc for reddit, yet they consistently screw over mods.
I'm extremely skeptical. What they showed today is ENORMOUSLY ambitious- it looks like they are aiming for an Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen kind of experience, and both of those games have been actively worked on for over a decade now and don't have all of these features.
The only other game I can think to compare this to is No Mans Sky- which completely failed to deliver most of what it promised on day one- but has implemented everything and then some in the years since.
Like, what they are saying is VERY cool, but of the three games that I can think to compare it to, one of them is still deep in development (and the story mode has never materialized, depsite years of RSI saying it's right around the corner), one was a complete disaster on launch, and one of them has been consistently good but still isn't feature-complete with everything they want. Elite Dangerous only added an on-the-ground FPS mode in 2021, and the general consensus in it is that it was quite lackluster.
This game is promising to have good on-the-ground FPS/TPS gameplay, good ship-to-ship combat, multiple ways to engage with the game's economy which are viable (like trading, being a mercenary, piracy, mining), an extreme level of ship customization, and presumeably multiple ship types that work best for each of the "professions" like trading and fighting. And also a story. And 1000 procedurally generated, planet-sized planets.
That is as much if not more than what Star Citizen promised, and Star Citizen still doesn't have half of the features. It's WAY more than No Man's Sky promised, and we all know how that turned out- even with what NMS now has in the game, this is more ambitious by a lot because of the graphics they are promising, the customization of ships, and the physics model (NMS is newtonian, but it doesn't really play that way).
And it's bethesda- they're known for making good games, but they have never made anything even remotely near this ambitious before. Their games are renowned for being buggy messes on release. And they want to release this on fucking consoles, which makes it even more difficult.