Perfection

Beans is memes

I’m a woman and child

I believe the memo is saying meta will benefit in the end because they can utilise community innovation already built in their own architecture

A few thoughts:

• As others have said comparison is the thief of joy. It’s also not a very useful motivator. Feeling a bit better off than someone else isn’t going to push you to work all night when it’s required. That motivation is going to have to come from an intrinsic place - some well of meaning that has significance for you.

• I’ve had the chance to study a little philosophy in pursuit of my profession and having a foundational system of thought - or several to compare - from which to approach decision making has helped me to determine my path and give meaning to my time alive.

• If you’re trying to do anything difficult, doing it alone is courting failure. Find other people doing similar things and figure out how you can help them out. Equally, if you want to learn something you’ll have a much easier time if you find a teacher.

Well stated thank you

I do think the question of who owns community content is nuanced. I put this comment here, you might say that means I own it and should be able to withdraw it - but it also doesn’t mean much of anything by itself, it needs your content to make sense. So who owns the discourse we are having? Me or you? Or whoever runs the server it is stored on - who must have some legal right to reproduce our content in order to provide the community space? Or the community as a whole? The combined content on Reddit represents an incredibly valuable store of information and learning - who does that belong to? Who should get to benefit from it?

Fair, but then there’s a line between scraping through ordinary traffic and using API access to gather large data sets.

Seems like it would quickly become a bit of an arms race with measures and counter measures unless some legislation went into effect

I do wish that function would have a profile exception

Help me to understand what this means. Something to do with blocking specific sets of ips?

The other 5% were furious

I think he was just trying to be coy

Volume of users is everything here. Picking up enough share grants you a tremendous gravity as a social service. Once a service has network effect on their side it takes an extraordinary amount to unseat them - and Instagram users will pad the numbers at first but who knows if they will engage. Fedi users are demonstrably early adopters willing to put up with a new service’s teething issues. If meta can plug in and grab them it’s a big win.

Memmy is pretty decent on iOS, but it misses the feed controls liftoff has

I don’t think fedi is currently competing with any meta property? This is an opportunistic land grab from meta aiming to capitalise on twitter’s weakness. Fedi offers them a ready made protocol tested at scale.

Completely agree that this is where the really exciting potential is, but equally a potential for misuse as algo development will be a black box to most.

I think nit picking each others speech is the true cringe redditism

Liftoff is pretty broken on iOS

When the gif doesn’t load but you imagine the rest of it anyway: