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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Same here. I’m working on a couple household projects and a software side project. I’ve found useful-looking search results several times over the past few weeks and was pleasantly surprised to find I was repeatedly finding the useful content deleted.

    Sure, it’s annoying on some level…but it’s also pretty neat that I’ve already noticed I default to clicking Stack Exchange links or asking ChatGPT stuff before searching reddit specifically, since my brain’s already starting to associate reddit with the disappointed feeling of finding a deleted comment.










  • Fair enough; I wasn’t commenting on the idea one way or another, just trying to clarify what I thought the other commenter meant.

    Personally, I’m almost never in favor of a ban. I’d rather tax heavily and use the income for programs to offset. I’m 20 years removed from optimism about reducing emissions, so I think we should be leaning into technology that can actively pull stuff out of the atmosphere. That could create an incentive to move away from flying but also use the flying that’s still happening to fund figuring out how to reverse the damage that’s already been done.




  • I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010

    It was an ongoing meme that “reddit was better a few years ago and kinda sucks now” but I really think it was accurately the case. Everyone remembers it being at its best when they first signed up because it had been on a slow, consistent downward slide from around 2010 on.

    The last couple of years were so bad that I was already going to other sites for actual news and whatnot because anything outside of small, niche subs were overrun with bots (or trolls, since they were functionally the same).