I looked up this article about it after googling the lyrics. Sounds like there was much more backlash after the music video dropped which has now been pulled from some streaming sites.
The bigger controversy was filming at a courthouse famous for lynching and using BLM protest footage in the video.
Interesting, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, humans haven’t changed much over the eons.
Any recommendations for true disaster videos? That sounds y up my alley.
It concerns me that we’re seeing this more and more in industry. Middle fingers to regulations because when you have enough money, it doesn’t matter.
I brush mine in the shower.
They sent mod mail on the 27th, demanding replies by the 29th. Clearly, they’re pushing to have this resolved before the new API rollout, but if only 2300 subs are still dark, so they not have enough content? Why the drastic push to force reopen everything? Are they hurting that bad?
I find myself making fun of the engineering, but I think it’s a defense mechanism. I’ve had a pretty strong interest in the Titanic since I was a kid, and if I were offered the opportunity to see it, I think I’d be more likely to go. And it’s scary to think I’d end up on a vessel that wasn’t designed to do the thing it advertised it can.
How much did the people who went actually know about the sub they were on? How common is it to sign a waiver about dying to go on a commercial sub?
It’s easy to laugh with hindsight, but it’s scary to think what could have happened if I were in the position to choose to go.
The moments before the implosion were something that no one should ever need to feel in their lives.
Just to this point - it would have happened too fast for them to even register anything was happening. Complete destruction would occur in 1/20th of a second. (Per Insider/Naval History Magazine)
That’s my theory too. He’s acting like a cornered animal and needs to drive traffic back to reddit. What better way to do that than to break the website power users have been migrating to and advertising on Reddit?
Then June 30 the straggling migrants still holding out til the end will come over to a broken website.
I think spez hopes that their broken spirit and desperation will help drive people back to reddit, but a bot influx this huge, he must be legitimately worried.
It could also be spez bootlickers, but I would be shocked if someone who had the same knowhow to build a bot army was simultaneously stupid enough to not see the bigger picture happening at corporate.
To add on to this - computers used to run on DOS commands. What made them mainstream was creating a UI which allowed a layperson to use it. So now a graphic designer can focus on artwork rather than needing to understand computer backend.
Similarly, we’re floating around windows '93 or something.
The way I see - we’re the early adopters who can both see the potential and can also affect real change. We’ll be the ones paving the way for future users. For me, figuring out how software works is like a puzzle to me and I find it fun. However, my sibling would find this site completely unusable because their brain doesn’t find this fun, they find this sort of thing overwhelming and complicated.
I’d love to see a mass migration, but without some more user-friendly tools, it’s going to be us nerdy folks having fun in our new sandbox.
I’m not going to insult people for being ignorant about something, because that’s literally the default state of being a person.
Well stated. I try to keep this in mind, or assume this until proven otherwise.
I thought I heard recently there was talk about making the fediverse API more friendly towards existing 3p reddit apps so that it wouldn’t be as much work. Though I can’t recall a source atm. I’d be curious to see if that did happen if the 3p devs would make the change.
Is AI capable of this? My gut is that there is still too much nuance for AI to be successful, that it won’t be able to adapt to changing circumstances as a subreddit community evolves for example. Are we at that point with AI technology?
One of my favorites too, subscribed! I probably should start a few, there’s definitely some I’ll miss having regular access to.
Yes, very much this. I was able to reach out to a very small community before this blew up and the advice I got there was extremely impactful to a sensitive issue I’m navigating with my family.
It’s really the thing I’m most upset about losing.
It’s difficult to find spots to congregate and commiserate online when you or someone you love has an experience only shared with 0.1% of the population.
1 out of 1,000 and then only if they also want to talk about it.
If reddit still exists, and if I go back to it at all, that would be the only reason.
I kind of want all the users to wipe their comments and burn it down like the library of Alexandria. Then spez can’t mine it for AI.
I hate losing the window into humanity, but it would be insanely satisfying to watch the fire burn.
No, it just feels like that because you can’t keep it up anymore.