I would not be surprised if a lawyer jumped in and said that revealing even profitability vs not is something they should do through official channels.

Almost 20 minutes in, and he’s written 3 responses, each about a paragraph.

I’m guessing it’s not going well.

You might also check out https://kbin.social

FWIW, some friends and I are running our own Lemmy instance, but we’re not completely sold on it either yet. And just software-wise, some pretty important things are missing. There’s actually no way to see, besides going into the database and querying it directly, a list of users on your own instance, for example.

And of course community-wise, Lemmy.ml (the most popular instance, run by lemmy devs) has some questionable moderation. It’s probably better to read about that on another instance, since discussion of censorious moderation is itself subject to censorious moderation.

Only a couple years ago, a friend of mine was at the top of reddit with a family photo he took. He eventually deleted it because of all the ugliness that inevitably comes from a huge thread where an adult woman and child are in it.

It used to not be that way.

Yeah. You will always get hivemind on insular’ish communities though. Lemmy is probably already just as bad in that regard.

I see your Lutheran+/r/atheism example and raise you dating a capitalist on Lemmy.

TIL.

I always thought it was nearly all one party.

I’m a more recent Apollo user, having switched to iPhone last year. But I’m in the same boat. The third party apps are the only way to go on any platform.

I’ve also been a paying Reddit gold (now premium) user for, I dunno, maybe 10 years. It’s offensive that after all that, I can’t run the software I want to run to access the site. It’s a sign of enshittification.

And frankly, Apollo or not, Reddit isn’t what it used to be. It’s less friendly and welcoming than the narwhal days when /r/LucidDreaming was the hottest community. It’s more abrasive now, more childish. Like the rest of the internet, I suppose.

Where isn’t it single party consent?

Actually, maybe that’s a business model. B2B.

“Are you struggling to fuck up your user experience? Let our experts guide you through the process of alienating your userbase with our list of tools, including an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that automatically inserts link bate garbage around your site.”

The Twitter exodus (which is still limited) was because all of the problems at Twitter were sudden. Huge staff cuts meant lower quality, way more bots, and of course, the owner’s mercurial impulses.

Reddit is a bit different. It’s more of a boiled frog situation. A little tweak here, a little change there, all definitely for the worse (and Reddit is going down hill) but so far nothing seismic. Even the number of users affected by the third party apps thing is pretty small because most users just looking at memes and sharing news just use the native app (my wife does).

I’m not sure whether that really results in an exodus.

Look at Amazon: it just gets worse and worse, but have people stopped buying from it en masse? Nope. It’s getting worse, but ever so slowly.

“Our pricing is $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, which equates to <$1.00 per user monthly for a reasonably operated app,” the Reddit worker said.

This reminds me of the “average user” Comcast would talk about when they introduced price discrimination metered billing. Just include the long tail of lurkers and signups who almost never use the service, and you can claim that the Apollo users (who are power users) are just outliers who should pay more.

Ultimately for me this is a reminder that when there’s a for-profit business ramping up to an IPO, it ultimately has to decide what the products are. Reddit tried to make itself the product with Reddit Gold, but clearly not enough people were paying for it, so it has to make users the product. It’s hard to “monetize” users through someone else’s app, so they’ve basically decided that for app users, if the developers figure out how to sell a very expensive service, more power to them, otherwise fuck 'em.

I’m inclined to agree with you that it might be a potentially good way to interact with a computer. There’s a company called Sightful that makes a “Spacetop” computer, which is basically a laptop with a headset instead of a screen. Mike Elgan actually gave it some pretty positive press lately.

As someone who travels constantly and misses a big monitor on the road, I am inclined to agree that the use case could be compelling.

But… $3,500 is a lot of lettuce for something that could easily be obsolete as fast as my cell phone. And Apple mentioned that the total field of vision is something over 4k, but that’s still a lot less than multiple 4k monitors.

Still, I’m willing to be convinced. Especially if a stripped down “viewer only” model comes out without all the bells and whistles. I don’t need outward display, or the lidar, or any of that. I just want a big workspace.

I mean, no.

I think at most it’s somewhat comparable to sitting down at an old fashioned desktop computer. It’s your primary focus of attention. When you’re not using it, you take it off.

The example of a dad doing a real-time recording of himself playing with his kids is cringy AF.