I've created this community because I was looking for one to participate in and it didn't exist yet. Since then I've come to the realization that I can't commit the time that's necessary to make this into a successful community. That's why I'm looking for someone who would like to take over and to whom I can transfer the community. All that I ask is that you give it your best shot. If you're interested please reply to this post.
I've created this community because I was looking for one to participate in and it didn't exist yet. Since then I've come to the realization that I can't commit the time that's necessary to make this into a successful community. That's why I'm looking for someone who would like to take over and to whom I can transfer the community. All that I ask is that you give it your best shot. If you're interested please reply to this post.
Apple TV+ Community
Foundation S02E03 - King and Commoner - Episode Discussion
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Yes Lemmy has an editing option for titles.
Silo TV & Book Series
Strikes' effect on season 2 of Silo?
turquoise
1 year ago
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Yikes.
I guess there was no way it wouldn't be affected by the strikes.
Thanks for sharing the article.
Share what you're watching with the rest of the community. Anything that pleasantly surprised you? Or did something disappoint perhaps? Found a gem that no one is talking about but everyone should know about? Share it all in here!
I wonder if and how the strikes affect season 2, haven't been able to find much information specific to Silo. Anyone that came across an article or other form of information that could shed a light on this?
Apple TV+ Community
I enjoy the crowded room
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It's still on my list of things to watch, because it looks so good. Just so busy lately.
I guess the silver lining is that I can at least binge it in one go.
Discussion thread for The Afterparty season 2 episode 4: “Hannah” Episode is live! Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Foundation season 2 episode 3: “King and Commoner” Episode is live! Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Request a subreddit
r/SiloSeries
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It’s pretty ok @sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz.
It creates a community on this instance with posts from Reddit, allowing you to easily crosspost.
Only issue is if your own instance is buckling under the weight of traffic, then it can be a bit slow and cumbersome.
You also need to remember to quickly subscribe to the newly created community on this instance from your own instance because federation doesn’t pull old posts from prior to the first person on an instance subscribing to a community on another instance.
Showerthoughts
Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance
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Have you seen !rust@programming.dev?
Not a Rust dev but it looks pretty active to me.
Reddit
They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub
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It’s not out of solidarity, advertisers are worried they’ll turn into lightning rods: https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ripples-through-reddit-as-advertisers-weather-moderators-strike/
Reddit
They finally did it: Reddit made it impossible for blind Redditors to moderate their own sub
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Reddit is antsy to effectuate their exit strategy.
Or to put it more simply: everyone with a stake in Reddit, from pigboy Huffman, to institutional investors like Fidelity, to employees who earned equity is eager for Reddit to have their IPO so they can offload their shares on the public stock market.
Their valuation will be an important factor, if not the most important factor, that will determine for which price those stocks will initially be put on the market.
So while slashing the valuation in half will not directly lose them money, it could translate into the initial stock price being half of what they anticipated, causing them to get half of what they would’ve gotten had the valuation not be slashed in half.
There is no way in hell that people with equity in Reddit are not pissed about the slashing of the valuation, since they now anticipate getting a haircut as much as half of what they initially expected to get.
Apple
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You can listen to the song on his YouTube channel as well: https://youtu.be/KOFChFxsJ3I
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What most people missed, much less understood, from that interaction is that Reddit justified the API cost based on “opportunity cost”.
This means that Reddit was saying that they weren’t trying to kill off third party apps but that they simply were trying to charge $20MM/y to recoup the earnings they’re losing out on by virtue of people using Apollo instead of Reddit’s own offerings.
So yeah, like you said, he clearly tried to call BS on the price motivation by essentially saying “if my mere existence is causing you to lose out on $20MM/y of earnings, why don’t you cut a check for $10MM to buy Apollo”.
Because logically if it really was about opportunity cost and the pricing of $20MM/y would accurately reflect that, then a one time $10MM purchase would be such a steal compared to losing $20MM/y, it would have any CEO scrambling to sign a check the moment the option was even so much as whispered.
Instead the API pricing was simply a ploy to kill off third party apps and the “opportunity cost” nonsense was mere pretext to be able to maintain that it wasn’t about killing off third party apps.
Not to mention that outside of the vacuum of this specific matter, the whole ordeal was littered with duplicitous lies, like how it would be a fair and reasonable price when every other comparable API is multiple orders of magnitude cheaper, safe for Muskrat’s.
Imgur for example would charge $166/50 million request, compared to Reddit’s $12,000 for the same amount. Or put it differently, Imgur charges $276,666/y compared to Reddit’s $20MM/y.
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Yeah, how dare he, after almost a decade of work, refuse to get back into the code mines at your whim and repurpose the app super easy in “a few hours”.
/s
Get a grip.
Not only would it take far more than “a few hours”, he owes you jack all.
Even if he would be interested in making a Lemmy app, he’d be well within his right to take a break from things.
Silo TV & Book Series
[No Book Spoilers] Season 1 Discussion
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She tripped over the sheriff’s corpse, she placed the badge on the sheriff to honor him and a minor consequence of that is that the VR simulation can’t account for that so it slightly glitches.
The clue is that they’ve been using shitty tape to ensure all the cleaners will succumb to the toxic air within a few minutes.
Walk however arranged that the Supply department would deliver the better tape from Mechanical, this went unnoticed because they look very similar and ensured Jules would be able to survive.
Share with us your progress, your struggles and your victories.
You can use this thread to ask questions if you need help with something or need help understanding something
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lemmy.world
lemmy.world
**Discussions without book spoilers:** [S01E01 - Freedom Day - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927595) [S01E02 - Holston’s Pick - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927748) [S01E03 - Machines - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927848) [S01E04 - Truth - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927968) [S01E05 - The Janitor’s Boy - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927993) [S01E06 - The Relic - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928032) [S01E07 - The Flamekeepers - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928046) [S01E08 - Hanna - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928051) [S01E09 - The Getaway - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928061) [S01E10 - Outside - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928082) [Season 1 Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928131) --- **Discussion *with* book spoilers:** [S01E01 - Freedom Day - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927689) [S01E02 - Holston’s Pick - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927809) [S01E03 - Machines - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927910) [S01E04 - Truth - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/927978) [S01E05 - The Janitor’s Boy - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928000) [S01E06 - The Relic - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928035) [S01E07 - The Flamekeepers - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928048) [S01E08 - Hanna - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928057) [S01E09 - The Getaway - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928078) [S01E10 - Outside - Episode Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928089) [Season 1 Discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/928221)
This is the Season 1 Discussion thread for the book readers. **This might contain book spoilers** Go to the non-book spoiler discussion thread if you don't want to read book spoilers. Allowed: - Everything that happened during Season 1 of the Silo TV show - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything beyond season 1 of the tv show
This is the Season 1 Discussion thread for the non-book readers. Allowed: - Everything that happened during Season 1 of the Silo TV show **Off limits:** - Any book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread for that - Anything beyond season 1 of the tv show
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 10: “Outside” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 10: “Outside” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 9: “The Getaway” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 9: “The Getaway” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 8: “Hanna” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 8: “Hanna” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 7: “The Flamekeepers” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 7: “The Flamekeepers” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 6: “The Relic” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 6: “The Relic” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 5: “The Janitor's Boy” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 5: “The Janitor's Boy” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
**Book spoiler** discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 4: “Truth" Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode - Book spoilers **Off limits:** - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 4: “Truth” Allowed: - Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes **Off limits:** - Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that - Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
Asklemmy
Why do so many tech companies, like Reddit and Twitter are making their platforms worse for their users all of a sudden?
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In short: money.
Long story is that a lot of these tech companies started as startups funded by VCs.
Borrowing money was cheap so they got dumped buckets of money onto them to burn in an effort to try to get a foothold and/or kill off competition by undercutting them.
Now that they've gained a foothold and in some cases have a near monopoly or duopoly and now that borrowing money isn't cheap anymore, they need to start cutting cost if not outright turn a profit.
And so the enshittification begins.
Specifically for Twitter, Musk needs to cut cost because he bought Twitter at a severe premium and has made it less valuable by the minute ever since he took over. This to the point that he is leaving bills unpaid.
Specifically for Reddit, they've burned through all that VC money and have been eying a juicy exit in the form of an IPO. An IPO would be a payday for everyone who initially invested into Reddit because now they can sell their shares for more than what they invested (or at least that's their hope). In order to get a good price once they go public they want to cut cost and increase revenue to seem as valuable as possible.
Specifically for YouTube, the ad game has been generating less and less revenue over time and advertisers have been burned in the past by having their ads placed next to objectionable content.
So the knee-jerk reaction is to severely tighten the rules for content, lest they be demonetized.
This however made creators realize that their livelihood in the form of the pittance that's called AdSense payout is very fragile, so they started moving to doing sponsorships, soliciting Patreon donations and partnering with Nebula.
Now YouTube is missing out on those revenue streams and often ad revenue as well as creators often turn off ads on their video when they have sponsor deals etc. So what does YouTube do? They started monetizing videos of creators who are not eligible for their partner program (i.e. place ads on videos and not share it with creators) and not give those creators the option to turn off ads, they started severely increasing the amount of ads on videos that do run ads, they started severely pushing YouTube Premium and now they're cracking down on adblockers.
Fuck Cars
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You're fine, it's OP that seems to misunderstand how things work.
The community they talk about is on another instance (lemmy.ml), the beauty of federation is that any instance can have any community and user, and people can choose which one they subscribe to (or sub to both).
Apple
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That’s the neat part, there is no “official” on Lemmy.
Subscribe to whichever you like best, or better yet: both.
Apollo - A beautiful app built for power and speed.
Is Christian on Lemmy now? Has anyone heard if he’s planned on developing an app for Lemmy?
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He has on occasion, especially early on.
He stated that he has no interest in doing so for now.