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Sounds like someone needs more day offs

No I really mean it. That's not a right that's, like, in the Constitution, but it's a principle of academic psychology and tech companies trample all over it. If it's just, like, which button design is better or what CDN makes the page load faster, it's mostly fine, but when they start asking questions like "what happens if we only show people the sad posts", it's really not fine.

You could probably do a Meetup clone; I think some stuff for that use case might exist already.

Friend finding would require some kind of matching engine, but what you are matching people on might be somewhat sensitive. You want to find all of the bronies without revealing that you are a brony yourself. So you can't just ship all the stuff to any instance that rolls up and says "hey I have ten thousand bronies in here, tell me all the bronies you have". You need some kind of fancy multi-party computation stuff to do distributed matching.

And then with dating you have the same problems but also your data is even more secret and your happiest users tend to immediately quit.

Definitely don't want to have it showing up in the feed here.

Not sure if we want to boot the whole remote instance, though, if it also carries communities and users that we would allow. Can we block communities at the instance level?

Maybe just about how it is genuinely perfectly balanced with no exploits 🫖

Bethesda has really gone downhill since the acquisition. If it's not loaded with bugs, exploits, and glitches, is it even a Bethesda game anymore?

We seem to have skipped 6?

I think it will federate automatically if someone on one side tries to subscribe to or post on a community on the other side.

A lot of this sort of A/B testing has the character of a psychology experiment. If it were conducted by a reputable research lab, it would have to pass an instituational review board who would weigh in on whether it was an ethical experiment, and among other things research subjects would always have the right to decline to participate in the experiment.

But when private companies do it, nobody holds them to the same standard of ethics in their human experimentation. But clearly people's right not to be subject to psychological experiments without their consent is being violated.

Wow, that claims to be really fast on CPU actually. Why aren't people using this all the time instead of the annoying services?

It's only a bad idea if you think you could win concessions with an indefinite strike.

Reddit might get a bunch of subs back tomorrow, but the admin were always going to reopen the good names via reddit request anyway.

And the mods and users aren't likely to go back to happily posting and working for free on a platform that's turned. Communities will be planning organized migrations, and a lot of people here who came because of the strike will discover they like it better here actually.

I think it has a bit of trouble matching requests and responses. A few times I have opened a post and gotten a page rendered for a different post.

Maybe you are getting notifications for someone else's reports.