Me too but it’s pretty simple to find some:
- temporarily disable adblocker
- open Reddit (www not old)
- ctrl+f and search for “promoted”
Every one I found thus far are regional ones, but they have a matching twitter handle…
dan
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True. But still, marketing teams are pretty skittish and a couple of dozen negative tweets or something is often enough for them to bail just to avoid even the potential for getting caught in a controversy.
Particularly as, unlike political controversies, there's nobody to get pissed off with them for bailing...
Default to showing subscribed communities, rather than local ones. De-emphasise the server in certain areas (eg community list) - I think the community is more important than the server it’s on and having it there so prominently causes confusion about it’s importance.
I can see why it has the server focus but I’d argue most people want to join a general server with a wide reach rather than something isolated.
Though this is me trying to use Lemmy as “distributed Reddit” so maybe I just don’t get it.
You’re saying that everyone everywhere must always listen to everyone else at all times even when they’re being dicks, and anything less makes them pussies and they shouldn’t be allowed to communicate at all?
If they have a strong community and want to cut ties with some others, that’s cool they can do that. That’s the system working.
The problem with scraping is that while it’s difficult/impossible to block completely, it’s pretty easy to keep making changes to your site to disrupt scrapers. The work required by the scraper to adapt to those changes is usually way more than the work you put in to disrupt them.
So if a commercial site wants to make scraping unreliable and impractical, they almost certainly can.
No protest of anything Reddit has done has ever caused Reddit to reconsider what they’re doing
To be fair, they did fire that pedo mod they hired. Eventually.
The only problem with using paths is the service might not support it (ie it might generate absolute URLs without the path in, rather than using relative URLs).
Subdomains is probably the cleanest way to go.
My rational mind realises it’s such an expensive system to run that it’s reasonable for them to charge or show ads. The problem is they’ve been extremely aggressive with ads and pushing subscriptions, to the point where I’m pretty resentful of the idea. Plus they’ve neglected so many things (like allowing aggressive copyright predators and refusing to implement sensible human-based appeals processes) that they really should have dealt with and instead embraced an algorithm that I’m pretty sure is at least partially responsible for the radicalisation of large groups of people.
I.. don’t mind paying for shit. I just don’t want to give them money.
Also: wow there’s federated video sharing? Bet that’s not cheap to run.
Then I’m going to begin not fucking watching YouTube.
Oh shit I wanted to buy one of those when I have a kitchen big enough to accommodate it.
Oof. You got banned sitewide for that? Jesus.
100% support dude. Fuck Spez and rectangles.