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@ HCSOThrowaway @lemmy.world

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  • Did they ever define what "woke" is?

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  • It kinda is a targeted political agenda, but not all targeted political agendas are evil.

    "Hey can you stop being a piece of shit and instead choose to be kind?" is the targeted political agenda, which is highly offensive to pieces of shit.

  • Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy

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  • If Rhodesia, the Confederate States of America, and the Third Reich can live forever in the hearts of the far right, PizzaKentuckyBell can live forever in mine.

  • YouTube now

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  • A highly engaging video that's entirely BS is not a good video for anyone but advertisers.

  • YouTube now

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  • Every step:

    "Let's make it more difficult for people to realize the video they're about to watch is hated (so people keep coming back for more and advertisers keep paying us more), but not in a way that is blatant so we lose a significant portion of our userbase."

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • I don't have any evidence either way as far as who uses old.reddit to submit versus who doesn't, and I don't think there is any.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Why do you think you're able to detect a bot by their Reddit comments? I strongly suspect you're assuming low-effort, poorly-written comments are bots, when in reality they're probably just dumb people.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • I think the bot percentage is proportional to how big a subreddit is and how profitable influencing people browsing it is.

    Niche community about how to proplift (stealing small cuttings to grow your own plants)? Zero or close to zero bots.

    Crypto community with thousands of comments a day, where it's all speculation that can't be objectively disproven* so bots stick out like a sore thumb and tons of money flying around? You better believe the bots are all over that.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • There's no objective data to confirm or dispel your suspicion that there are zero few human Redditors (your hyperbole aside).

    There's definitely tons of bots posting and voting (and likely always has been), but I really doubt a large percentage of commenters are bots.

    - A non-bot redditor

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:

    Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:

    Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):

  • Reddit’s removal of user feedback channels raises questions about platform governance

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  • I think Reddit is just publicly acknowledging the quiet part (and simultaneously saving money by firing their humans):

    Virtually no matter what Reddit does, most people don't care because they're too lazy to switch to alternatives.

    What happened in the aftermath of the /r/art debacle? People made some memes and continued to use Reddit.

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • Yes, that is what it claims.

  • Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

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  • True, forgot all about the tenure system, which I barely understand beyond the memes as it is.

    Still, earlier discussion holds; outrage that they didn't fire him yet makes zero sense.

  • Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

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  • Now, as Devil's Advocate arguing against you and me, Harvard could choose to drop him at the mere hint of an accusation. You don't have a right to a job and not getting fired without proven cause in any state but I want to say Montana? The rest are "Right to Work."

    Back on Team "Give them a second for crying out loud," we're talking about Harvard, allegedly one of the best colleges in the world. We can expect them to do right by probably investigating this properly, and we'd hope any employer we'd ever work for would bother to take more than a femtosecond to figure out if there's evidence supporting an accusation against us.

    Obviously a lot of countries do have Big R "Rights" as far as labor goes, but the US is not one of them.

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • Content / Image posting restrictions (based on network)

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  • VPNs usually add IPs all the time.

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • To those who didn't click onward, the answer in that post is apparently 2 years (by implication of its post date)

    Ironically it also invalidates the top comment in this thread claiming they aren't concerned with VPNs, just specific VPN IPs that have been abused in the past.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Hot take because Line Must Go Up is being blamed on "For the Shareholders!" lately, but:

    It's not just publicly traded companies. Private companies have greedy C-suites too.