Stimmt. Rechte und Nazis wählen hat noch nie jemanden geschadet. Besonders nicht Leuten mit Migrationshintergrund. /s
Rakn
joined 2 years ago
Reddit is in the process of closing down their platform. It is very likely that google won’t be able to just crawl their website in the same manner as they did in the past. One of the reasons for the current effort of shutting down the API on Reddits side is that they want to prevent folks from extracting their data. This is what all other social media sites are doing as well. So there is a very high chance that Google won’t have access to it anymore.
Buying it would guarantee them this access and at the same time prevent their competitors from gaining it. After all Reddit is likely one of the most valuable sources for text based human interaction for training these networks.
Google also doesn’t care about tracking Reddit users by their ID. That isn’t where the values comes from.
Google should just buy Reddit. They could augment their search with it and would have an awesome basis for their LLM stuff.
tl;dr: Integrating you mail client into the browser doesn’t really give you much.
IMHO it’s also a bad idea. I want my browser and communication tool separated on purpose (if I don’t open any of those as a website anyways).
Not the first browser doing that. Probably not the last either. But none of them caught on. It’s not a feature anyone wants or needs.
Nah. Why should I be against it? That’s a rather weird stance. I don’t really tend do deal in auch absolutes. But seeing that it’s a technical problem for you I don’t think there is merit in talking further about it. I don’t see it that way. Technology is just an enabler. It doesn’t much matter in these things.
What I meant by that is that I doubt that you can make your club so resilient. We are talking about a lot of social dynamics here. This isn’t a technical problem in any way. And the past has shown that network effects are a real thing. So inevitably if you give someone with a thousand times the resources and likely than the rest of the community the opportunity they will take it. It will become known as the main instance and everyone will join there. Smaller instances will become more irrelevant as they are already and at some point bow to what the largest instance dictates.
Take Lemmy for example. You can already see some of that happening with instances like beehaw. Do what they say or you get defederated. Naturally smaller instances will fall in line. What do you imagine happens if an instance joins that is as thousand times the size of the current entire network?
At some point it will be „do as we say or loose all your content“. Which will then lead to users switching instances where they have the access they want.
This is not a technical problem. The protocols can be nice and open. But that doesn’t help you if the network itself is fragile due to human nature.
What I meant is: It sounds nice in theory that you can build a social network in a federated way that is resilient to our social nature. I just have my concerns and going to watch with interest how it unfolds. It will likely take some years. But we‘ll see.
Woher kommt das Gefühl, auf Twitch und YouTube wären mehr deutsche unterwegs. Liegt das vielleicht eher daran was die Plattformen dir an Inhalten anzeigen. Ich würde das sehr sehr stark bezweifeln.
Das „nerdige“ an Reddit/Lemmy ist tatsächlich denke ich, wie andere schon erwähnt haben, dass es weniger Mainstream ist. Ich erinnere mich an einen Post in r/de eines Lehrers der feststellen musste, dass die Kids aus seiner Klasse Reddit für eine Pornoseite gehalten haben. Man bekommt halt das angezeigt wonach man sucht ;-)
That sounds nice in theory. Going to be very interesting how it holds up in practice.
Yeah but these examples are all bigger than Google. The fediverse irrelevant in comparison. Additionally at least Linux doesn’t have such a strong network effect, since it’s not a social network. I mean I’m going to let myself be surprised. But I kinda doubt that anything good will come from it.
The Meta business side isn’t nice folks that try to do good in general.
Comparing a web forum to a medium article with people commenting under it. It looks like that person has little grasps on why Reddit or the likes are being used.
No one is using comments on sites like Medium to discuss anything. The comments there are always low quality from people that have no clue. You find that on Reddit as well. But the threading and voting systems kind of accounts for that.
These aggregators are a site to discuss what’s written on medium. They aren’t a replacement and vice versa.
Weird person that came to this conclusion. Imagine stop using forums. What would be lost. One person writing a medium article couldn’t replace that wealth of information.
That sounds like a very naive view on part of that developer. He probably never heard of Microsoft’s „Embrace, extend, and extinguish“ approach. This is going to be similar with Facebook. They have a lot more resources than all current instances combined and can provide a much better user experience. They are going to be the main instance on the federated network slowly starting to extend it and support features others lack. Making it a unique selling point until it’s too late.
And that’s not even looking at the moral/ethical standpoint of getting involved with Meta.
Yeah. That feels more likely. Twitter has been running for years and likely isn’t a stranger to something like this.