Maxcoffee

joined 1 year ago
[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it out but I didn't really like it that much. It seems to be good for most people though.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see something similar in a lot of tech-related threads too.

Just check out posts and comments about Corsair and AMD in particular. There is often no room for logic, facts or debate around their products on Reddit. Rather, threads feel like you're stuck in a marketing promo event where everyone feels the products are great and fantastic and can do no wrong. It's eerily like you're seeing a bunch of bots or paid shill accounts all talking to each other.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What you need is medication, not food.

Get a bunch of laxatives, stool softener (if you need it juicy) and even some lactaose and senna if you're real keen.

Then eat a shitload of greasy food and you're set.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The fact that this approach was the sensible, default logical one any rational person would attempt first and they didn't do it highly suggests ad revenue wasn't the motive at all. Otherwise, Spez is so out of touch with the community he's orbiting a planet in a distant galaxy.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Notice how Reddit haven't engaged in any positive damage control at all? It's just been hit pieces against devs, an AMA with completely canned responses and unprecedented wide-spread hostile action against it's content creators/power users/mods?

Reddit is in full-blown sell out mode right now and nothing but money matters anymore. It's all down hill from here.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed, however it's not worse than the current situation is now with Reddit.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm looking forward to June 30 so I can delete RIF off my phone and be done with the joint.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I really hate how much certain groups constantly dog whistle about transgender people as if it's the new scary gay people that are coming for your kids or something. Meanwhile, the average person would be lucky to even run into a transgender person and even realize it on any given day.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My father did warn me never to stick my dick in crazy.

Sadly I was not a smart man.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Here's the thing: typically I'm not going into a discussion on social media with the aim to change people's opinions or even to argue with them.

But what ends up happening is that they immediately assume it's a bad high school debate and things quickly devolve into bad faith arguments, attempts to nitpick and just general toxicity.

[–] Maxcoffee@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I've long suspected this is the case. Even Facebook publishes reports saying their platform is rife with paid corporate shills and government agencies pushing agendas and Reddit appears to be no different. I mean you can even test this by posting about a competing product and watch as they all come out to downvote you to oblivion and trash everything about it.

 

Reddit used to be a great platform to discuss some topic and get different points of few in a friendly but factual manner. However, slowly it seems like the platform has become a lot more like Facebook, where it's been invaded by toxic people that are constantly looking for opportunities to shit and hate on others.

The change has been gradual so I really didn't notice it creep up on me. It's become super evident now having used Kbin and others for a week or so where people generally seem to be more friendly again and willing to actually discuss things in a usually civil way.

The difference is stark too. Today I replied to a comment saying that I hope things turn out better for them and wound up in a weird comment chain about how people were apparently insensitive for wanting to get a basic haircut that they for some reason couldn't afford themselves. Meanwhile, Kbin and the Fediverse feels like a refreshing place to actually converse with people once you get past the clunk and figure it out.

I think Reddit may well have reached that main stream social media saturation point where it very objectively now sucks. It happened originally with the internet itself thanks to the rise of the smartphone and this is just another iteration of it. I feel like Spez might as well get that bag at this point because they've ruined what used to be the platform people went to for social media without the bullshit, without algorithms to drive "engagement" and to avoid the toxic culture that has prevailed.

Thanks for reading my rant.

 

I was looking into the API available for Kbin and it looks like it's currently just read-only, is this correct? Is this even the case for your own instance of it?

The reference can be found here if anyone is curious. I was hoping it allowed posting of comments/new posts in some fashion that I could play with.

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