What a silly headline. Even many long term NYC residents with good jobs can’t afford to live in Manhattan. Why would migrants think that’s the city for them?

It’s not about when the app last updated, it’s if they updated the code to use the modern interface.

They didn’t.

For the commenter I replied to? Yeah, their premise made no sense: people won’t do things they don’t want to and have no incentive to do.

This means the app devs refused to make their app work with modern phones for YEARS. no real excuse there.

As somebody who also is on the fuckcars train, how the fuck did you manage to get on that topic in a response to my comment lol

Not every country wants all immigration though.

Your oversimplification makes it sound like this is just my personal preference, and not a natural tendency of humans or social media interactions.

This is not just “I like X more”, this is “humans on a large scale act like probabilistic decision trees and will converge on lowest common denominator dopamine fountains without careful checks and considerations”

The latter is necessary for high quality networked media and discussion

If an account is upvoted because it’s posting high- quality content, we’d expect those votes to come from a variety of accounts that don’t otherwise have a tendency to vote for the same things.

No, I completely disagree and reject your premise.

Many times really high quality content will be voted for by only a small subset of the population.

In general people will vote for lowest common denominator widely appealing click bait. That type of content will get varied voters because of wide appeal. Discerning voters represent a smaller but consistent subset of the population, and this proposed algorithm will penalize that and just lead to more low quality widely appealing click bait.

What if account B only ever posts high quality content? What if everybody upvotes account B because their content is so good? What if they rarely post so it would be reasonable that a smaller subset of the population has ever seen their posts?

Your theory assumes large volumes of constant posts seen by a wide audience, but that’s not how these sites work, your ideal would censor and disadvantage many accounts.

No, all they said in terms of their goals was that they needed to make a profit.

Anything else, you better have a really good source, because then the Apollo dev contradicts your story

Fuck you, don’t give reddit the accolade of being honest.

They literally said they weren’t trying to kill third party apps. They literally said they wouldn’t do what Twitter did. They literally said any pricing would be based in reality.

Yes, this was all a lie and we now know they just wanted to kill all apps, but don’t let them look even 5% less shitty by pretending they were honest about their intentions.

They are overly sensitive special snowflakes that pipi their pampers if anybody that doesn’t have 100% the same opinions as them is allowed to use the internet