“Damn, I thought mental illness was in the knees”

Also digg peaked at maybe 8 million users which is a much more manageable migration.

I think it might be the opposite. If extreme content is kind of “default” when the algorithm doesn’t know what to give you, them starving it off history might push it into that default more often. I have a very used YouTube account with a metric ton of history and honestly I very rarely see that kind of content. (From Europe though so it might be different)

Based and you-can’t-propagandize-with-a-mouthful-of -broken-teeth pilled

Idk it’s pretty common. Where i live, most people above 35 have gotten at least once in a fight with skinheads, and some did it every weekend for the giggles.

Exactly. I paid 15 bucks 12 years ago and got god knows how many thousands of hours out of it

Un truc que je comprends pas avec U&R, c’est qu’ils continuent d’avoir une page Facebook (forcément j’imagine), et dessus y’a QUE des boomers qui pigent rien à leurs sujets et font que les insulter en commentaires. C’est un phénomène magique, U&R poste un article et t’as 25 abrutis qui leur répondent "Ah ouais eh et le vrai journalisme c’est pour quand Usbek et Rica ? ".

D’où ma question, pourquoi ces gens sont abonnés à cette page, et pourquoi U&R maintient cette page à jour ? Parceque sinon je suis d’accord ils sont intéressants ils ont une ligne éditoriale originale et de bons sujets.

Yes! Very much this. Imagine if lemmy would grow to just a few million users. That’s the size of Digg when the migration to Reddit happened! Not everything needs to have a billion users and there’s more engagement in small communities anyway.

Out of the hundreds of millions of redditors i’m sure some people will pick up the slack of content creation and moderation. Now will they do a good enough job ? I don’t know, i bet spez is betting they will, but only time will tell.

Yeah you’re right that it wouldn’t be immediately noticeable but just because a few thousands of us jumped to Lemmy doesn’t mean there is any significant change on reddit. I checked on my most active communities and all the usual suspects are there, posting and commenting as usual. The amount of people that left reddit are probably a fraction of a percent.

This is not public information, you won’t know anything about that until the next quarterly reports. That being said if you go to the front page right now it seems pretty much like business as usual.

Of course i don’t. I dispute the fact that interest rates are a significant factor in the VC market.

Google in panic mode cause they don’t know if they’ll be able to close their 10M$ round from local VCs 😱

I don’t know it must depend on the market, in Europe you’ll generally get your money back in 7 to 10 years. And the very point of investing in a VC and not a singular company is that you flatten the risk and get your money back from the few companies who succeed. VCs are designed to bleed money looking for a moonshot but there’s not that many that fail ALL their investments and can’t show a 5% yearly for it.

Of course everything is connected but it’s not always 1 to 1, nor are the effects always immediate. Some economies absorb different impacts in different ways.

Couldn’t it be argued that it’s a mistake from reddit to think of themselves as being comparable to platforms that make more money per user?

You’re right it could very much be argued. I mean isn’t that the whole underlying question ? I would imagine that anybody who invests in reddit has the assumption that yes, you can monetize comparably to other platforms. Or even cut the pear in half and sit comfortably at 10$/user which would already be a fucking money printer at >400M MAU.

Now whether they are right or wrong in their thesis is anybody’s guess. Even after the recent debacle reddit is still in a very good position, but social media is such a clown world that you can never really tell.

Le risque de marché de Shadow c’est que c’est assez cher comparé à la concurrence

If you’re sitting on a pile of money you can invest it in internet companies with crazy valuations and no profit or near zero-risk Treasury Bills and interest-bearing certificates.

Weird thing to say when VC investing outperforms the market by 2.5x (even with the current rates) on average but 🤷

This meme is repeated everywhere ad nauseam and is blatantly wrong. VCs do not borrow money from the banks. The argument goes the other way around, and implies that the people who bankroll VCs would rather lend their money through banks than invest it - but even that is bullshit, you’d need interest rates in the double digits to even begin to be in competition with your average VC performance.

Also not 100% of VC money is american so Fed rates are not as relevant as you think. Please stop spreading that nonsense.

His blog “Boing boing” was a luminary of the early blogosphere when that was a thing people believed would replace traditional media. He was very active with the EFF, copyleft/CC culture, the early maker scene. He was an okay novellist too ! All in all if you grabbed a copy of “Wired” from 2006 there’s a 100% chance his name would be mentioned at least once in it.