zombiepete

joined 1 year ago
[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything that doesn't conform neatly to their views is bias. My parents were like that when I was growing up; Rush Limbaugh and Focus on the Family all day on the radio, then my dad would watch the evening news and bitch about how biased it was. Completely nuts.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What’s good for making more money is not always or even often good for what we would think of as customer-friendly business. If you can wring more money out of a few whales at the expense of pissing off customers who don’t create as much revenue, then in our current system that’s what shareholders apparently want.

Reddit wants more users in their official app where they can target them for ads, sell NFTs, and whatever other bullshit they want to sell. It doesn’t matter if the experience is worse, and it probably doesn’t really matter if a couple thousand 3PA users split for good. As long as they can tell investors that the official app use is growing and that they can target a greater percentage of users with ads and data, they feel like they won.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think you mean to say that she deserved a medal.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neelix was one of the best characters on Voyager and I will stand by that assertion forever.

I also think that Ethan Phillips was one of the best actors in the bunch too.

Episodes like “Jetrell” and “Mortal Coil” still move me every time I see them. Dude is amazing at playing a very damaged person hiding (in part) behind a mask of joviality. Neelix was truly a good hearted man who loved his crew, but those times when the mask slipped really showed what a complex individual he was.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone would make an RSS reader with its own comments/threads independent of the stories themselves I could go straight to the app comments after reading only the headline to get shitty takes on stories I won’t read.

The Reddit experience really isn’t that hard to recreate.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s amazing how inept spez has proven to be, and that’s after most people had developed a pretty negative opinion of him. The CEO of a community-driven company really cannot be an anti-social megalomaniac and have the company survive.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Safari does everything I need.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s inevitable that the subs are going to start opening again, one way or another. Best thing to do is just leave Reddit and not worry about whether the protest is still going at this point.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I was invited to become a mod on r/daystrominstitute a few years ago and within about a month realized that I didn’t have the time or emotional capital to invest in that job. It’s challenging, especially in a sub like that where there are pretty serious rules governing discussion and it burned me out really fast. The people who do it (well) have a passion for it; plucking some rando to be a head mod is going to kill a sub.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

r/redlettermedia went down today which surprised me. Glad they’re jumping on board; I hope spez is eating some serious shit right now.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Props to The Verge and David Pierce for his coverage of the redditing in general. I have been critical of the Verge and Patel in the past, but since the big site changes I have been forced to admit that the changes have been for the better.

[–] zombiepete@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smart of him not to set the bridge on fire before he’s made it all the way across.

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