funkyb

joined 1 year ago
 

Is there any way to block an entire instance, instead of just individual communities one at a time? My feed has a ton of stuff from feddit.de, I don't speak the language.

#kbin

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

been fully remote since 2008. It was fun to watch everyone else learn how to do that :)

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

can't tell if that's flippant or just uninformed. Reddit data was a significant component of the development of most big name LLMs.

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

I've been doing this too, but, why do they show up in the first place if I'm not subscribed to them?

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

Sure, but shouldn't we also need to subscribe to communities/mags from these instances? I know i see lots from .de domains in my feed, but I am not subscribed to any of the communities/mags on the instances those posts originate from.

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

Brand safety as an idea isn't dangerous, and there's an entire sub-industry in the adTech space devoted to it. The bottom line is most companies don't want their ads showing up on sites or in close proximity to certain types of content (illegal, political, hate speech, etc.). Services from these companies are used to make sure when doing ads on the open web, your DSP doesn't inadvertently put your ads in places like that. One example: https://integralads.com/solutions/brand-safety-suitability/

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think what he meant was that means they're buying ads, not selling them.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

stupid is as stupid does.

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

fair but the issue has never been about charging for API usage, it's how much they're charging for it. Not sure if you're implying that a single app using the API should pay enough to double reddit's total API operating costs for all apps, but if so, that's pretty unreasonable.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

The same twitter that has gone in the shithole and is so bad that they're literally getting courts to order their eviction for not paying rent.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I know there are bigger issues at play here, but can't help saying: Ewww...i forgot how gross it is when not using old.reddit.com.

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

I don't know about the rest of you, but even working a full time mid-career corporate job, I think I can make time for both. It doesn't have to be either-or.

 

In his first interview since thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, Huffman said he is not going to reverse his plan to start charging for outside access to Reddit data.

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

They are redirecting anyone - they are serving display ads that were intended for visibility within certain subs, to people who are viewing other subs or r/all.

 

Reddit is redirecting some impressions away from existing communities, and some advertisers are pausing campaigns.

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