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Reddit discontinues coins and awards after switching to paid API
  • Reminded me of a guy whose comment got rewarded so much that he said he would have premium until the 2030s.

  • Will there really be a big influx of users on the 30th?
  • I think it really depends on how real the 1% rule of the internet is.

    TBH I believe that 90% of mobile users uses the official app. Maybe they don’t know about 3PA, or simply just don’t bother. 3PA might be “for power users/advanced users” to them. All they want from Reddit is just the laugh (and porn probably) when doom scrolling. Not to mention because there is an official app, it’ll be the first result when searching “Reddit” on the app/play store. Most of the time people will just go for the first/official one. This whole API/protest thing will just be another Reddit drama for them and they just don’t care.

    However, I believe that this whole thing affects those 1% users the most. For mobile users (of the 1%), I believe most of them are using 3PA. As the official is just too bad. For everyone else (of the 1%), if they care (even just a little bit) about Reddit, they will be greatly disappointed with how Reddit handles the whole situation. They will either have left already, or will be leaving soon. Which then the question will be, to where?

    Obviously, users tends to go to wherever places that has the most interesting content to them. If enough 1% users left Reddit, migrated to Kbin/Lemmy, and continued to create content over here, I think those 99% users will eventually migrate as well - especially:

    1. The content are created by the same 1% users, so the content will be similar to what they consumed back when they were on Reddit.

    2. Reddit is full of repost bots, which hopefully should be more obvious when no new contents are being created anymore.

    There’s also another possible but quite pessimistic possibility:
    Some of those 99% users became the new 1% users, and began creating content with the redesigned UI/official app.
    *Puts on tinfoil hat* Which is what Reddit wants - to kick out the “old”, power/advanced users (users who can and will protest/rebel, in essence), making Reddit into another generic social media platform. With everything under the complete control of Reddit, not its users.

  • Cars are cars...
  • Where’s my r/fuckcars community on the Fediverse?

  • I'm only trying to help
  • To be fair, every time I click on a Reddit post on my home page, it is usually filled with all kinds of comments that I can and can’t think of already. So not much incentive to leave a comment instead of upvote/downvote.

    But here probably because of the low user count, essentially we are the one that are leaving those “all kinds of comments”.

  • While you're waiting on a kbin app, you should know the mobile site is entirely functional as a mobile app. Just make a shortcut for your home screen
  • Other than the back button there’s no indication of whether the webpage is loading or sth. On early days when kbin is less responsive it can be confusing to know if I had tapped on the post or not.

  • I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin
  • Agree. No matter what discord is still essentially just a chat room imo. Even with bots, read only channels, pinned messages, etc., navigating and searching for stuff that I want is still as painful as any other instant messaging services.

  • I don't understand why people still want to use reddit instead of moving to Lemmy or Kbin
  • For mobile kbin users, you can tap the top left burger menu and scroll down just a little bit to subscribe to a magazine, instead of scroll past all the comments. The burger menu is just the side bar on desktop.

  • Reddit's response about the actions they took against the subreddits (note: r/mildly interesting DID NOT encourage nsfw content and their suspensions and removal have been revoked by a diff admin)
  • Just once again shows that, as always, users are the one that makes Reddit Reddit.

    Polarized actions like this is just Reddit showing off their inability and ignorance to the community.

    All I can hope for right now is that every shitty things that happened so far is all because of spez and spez only. He’s the one and only almighty CEO and nobody can disagree him (basically Zuck 2.0?)

  • So now that season 4 has been out a bit, what are your thoughts?
  • Indeed it was more difficult than S3 but kinda fits the story line I think? Unlike S3, you really have to keep your distance from the mobs. I died many times right after I got "entangled" by the rockpox (where you have to AD to unstuck) during my first mission on S4.

    Jet boots + low gravity = endless fun. If you keep tapping space you can maintain your momentum.

  • How do you cook perfect rice?
  • Hongkonger here. We usually bought Thailand jasmine rice, and cook it with rice cooker.

    I’ve tried both cheaper and expensive rice brands and the difference in both taste and smell is really significant, even though they are both jasmine rice.

    As for cooking it, you really can’t go wrong with a rice cooker

    1/2 to 3/4 cup of rice per person. Rinse the rice with cold water 1-3 times. Both the bowl and the cup have those scales on it, so that gets the water-rice ratio covered (E.g. fill the water up to the “—— 2” if you put 2 cups of rice). That line gives you the standard fluffiness, so adjust slightly to your preference. Plug in the cord, flip the switch, let the rice cooker do its job and work on other stuff.

    When the switch pops, the rice is cooked. Pull the cord, open the lid and gently mix/stir the rice a little bit with the spoon that came along the cooker. Doing so prevents the rice from sticking to the bowl (that’s what I’ve been told and it seems to works), and to “add some air in between the rice” as it taste better this way. Where I’m from, people usually prefers the feel of discrete/individual grains of rice, instead of a “blob”/”goop” of rice.

  • Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators
  • That NSFW post on r/interestingasfuck has reached r/all lmfao

  • Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators
  • Some subs like r/fuckcars will be doing “touch grass Tuesday”, where the sub will be restricted every Tuesday.

    I think r/HarryPotter is still polling the same idea. Which gets me wonder what if most of the popular subs decided to do this.

  • r/WellThatSucks only.Vaccume cleaners
  • Malicious compliance, love it!

  • Redditors brigading against Lemmy
  • Of course there’s no viable alternatives to Reddit. Why would someone create another dumpster fire?

  • Weekend poll: Do you currently use a third-party Reddit app?
  • Apollo. So no more reddit for me when the app shuts down officially.

    I wish Christian would made an Apollo-like app for the Fediverse.

  • Spider-man Across the Spiderverse is a genuine 10/10
  • Same as you I went in completely blind. They top the first one on everything except the ending. I had no idea it was a two parter and was obviously disappointed with how they end the movie.

  • [Spoilers] Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Ending
  • Just finished the movie as well and I cannot describe how disappointed I am when I hear the main theme/bgm getting louder and louder, and the editing (how they cuts back and forth between the two) is clearly setting up a cliffhanger. And for sure I’m not the only one that felt the same way in the theatre.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love this sequel. They clearly knew what makes the first one so good and they expanded on those elements - art style, music, story, etc. - they did it again and made them better. It’s the only marvel comics/movies/series/whatever that I watched in years just because I really love the first one. But the way they butchered the ending will make this part 2 forever right below the first one on my list, and make myself certain again that I won’t be watching any marvel’s stuff anymore after the final instalment is out next year.

    Edit: just learned that the same thing happens to the Fast series as well. I guess it has become the norm now.

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  • Maybe we gave the site the very first Fediverse hug of death

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