I think that’s reasonable. As bullish as my response was, in the end, we all have our priorities and I think its’s totally fair to value convenience as long as you understand what that convenience really means. Taking mitigations to get your news using platforms that don’t rely on algorithms to provide what will delight or infuriate you is a step in the right direction.
In my opinion is that the issue is feeding data into a monolith that knows you better than you know yourself. The amount of data they have for everyone allows them to create profiles and find similarities that can predict proclivities that you don’t know about yet.
There’s nothing wrong about enjoying the conveniences of being recommended things you’re interested in, but this also means that they can sugeest things you didn’t even know you wanted (and probably wouldn’t have ever have wanted.
Combine that with the fact that this doesn’t just stop at product placement. It becomes all to easy for a malicious company to feed you news and opinion meant to make you feel a certain way or sway your opinion. It gives corporations way too much power over the thoughts and opinions you have on a day-to-day basis and makes you powerless against them.
And before you say, “I’m a smart, well-rounded person and would not be susceptible to those things,” literally everyone is susceptible. There’s no outsmarting them if you play their game. The only way to win is through digital privacy.
You 100% can. That’s exactly how I have mine set up. It clears cookies on exit but then I manage a whitelist.
Here are the Chrome instructions. Firefox is more or less the same.
Tbf, there’s a difference between knowing instinctively that someone poops and being first-hand witness to the godawful stench of post-chipotle bowel movement in an area with poor air circulation (AC aside).
Crush is definitely involved though.
Thanks, I was missing that point of view but I see what you mean.
I guess the way I see it is that, right now, people are enthusiastically joining in, which is still driving a sense of community. I guess I’m not as convinced that, long term, people will be driven to make new communities. I feel like the more likely scenario is that people will grow bored and go back to their normal, everyday posting.
Edit: I do agree the invester point is definitely one I didn’t consider and is definitely a huge factor to all of this. Of course, it goes without saying that it at least signals the turmoil at Reddit and brings more attention to it. Not all press is good press in this case.
Whatever happens, I fully intend to sit back and enjoy watching the drama unfold.
I think these malicious compliance subreddit responses are as fun as the next person, but honest question: doesn’t this work out in Reddit’s favor? They don’t care what’s posted as long as content is being generated and traffic being driven to their site, right?
This is the first time I’m hearing about this feature and am interested. But I feel like it would be better to use a different password than your master for these higher security logins. The thought being that, if someone has access to your passwords, they likely have access to your master password as well, unless they had access to an already unlocked vault.
I use Aegis, which automatically backs up with each change to the database to a folder that gets synced to a couple of different computers via syncthing.
For backup codes, I have a separate keypass database that’s backed up to a couple of places. I thought about using Bitwarden for this backup, but having my 2FA backups in the same place as my passwords kinda defeated the point, IMO.
Anyway, this system has worked well for me.
Or Wallabag, an open source alternative for those hearing about Pocket for the first time.
It’s also a super clunky way to search. If I’m skimming posts for technical issues that I need a quick turnaround for, I’m probably not going through that hassle unless I’m desperate.
But how would this work with broader federation? Searching other instances like beehaw or kbin? We’ll needan new search optimization to search the fediverse more efficiently.
I think you should do you and browse whatever you want. I still use Reddit when looking for opinions on products and services because there’s nothing close to the discussion on there. But visiting the site (without an adblocker) 100% still generates ad revenue and is what matters to ad companies, regardless of actually participating in the discussion.