Corpo Meltdown

I feel this kinda fits in here.

If it's not welcome (here), I'm happy to learn of better places.

Down with corpos hogging all the information. Reject centralization and siloing; embrace federation.

In protest against reddits API changes the "interestingasfuck" subreddit plans to reopen after a week long blackout with just one rule: posters have to consider their content "interesting as fuck" for it to be allowed in the sub. That's it.

In addition, reddits site-wide rules are still in place, and any content breaking those rules will be handed over to Reddits "Anti-Evil Operations", their site-wide moderation team. They're also much better equipped to figure out which users are bots, so when in doubt bots are to be reported to them, they'll surely do a good job enforcing reddits Rules. (Google them, they have a stellar track record!)

Reporting rulebreaks to AEO is encouraged, and the subreddits been marked as NSFW as a precaution. Gone are the days where you'd need to have a minimum amount of karma, or mods would check if they deemed your post actually interesting.

I'm personally hoping for lots of pictures of interesting sticks, John Oliver and a hint of frogs! 🐸

Reddit is inaccessible to blind users without third party apps and this is a part of the protest-blackout #disability #reddit #blind #accessibility

– @meredithw@wandering.shop

• Original post: https://wandering.shop/@meredithw/110563128831408936 (please boost on Mastodon, *key, etc)

• Reddit Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13zr8h2/reddits_recently_announced_api_changes_and_the/

(It wouldn't let me repost it here so I've copied it over. Disabled users may not want to move to Lemmy because I notice a lack of ALT text for images here too.

So is there anything we can do to amplify things get this message across to Reddit?)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it.

Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much.

Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.

It's happening.

Soon the flood of John Oliver pics will come! (I wasn't sure where to post this but it's related to recent happenings so enjoy!)

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/

The Google Graveyard grows

I don’t know if I agree with the characterization that Apollo is a fully direct competitor of Reddit.

Okay, hold on, timeout. You go to the App Store, you type in Reddit, you get two options, right? There’s Apollo. You go to one, it’s my business, and you look at our ads, use our products. That’s 95 percent of our iOS users. The rest go to Apollo, which uses our logo, or something like it, takes our data — for free — and resells it to users making a 100 percent margin. And instead of using our app, they use that app. Is that not competitive?

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Whisper, OpenAI's enigmatic speech recognition model, likely honed its skills on ZDF's subtitled videos, a source of knowledge.

Within its code, the cryptic message 'Untertitel im Auftrag des ZDF, 2017' reveals its origins. An echo of silence becomes the very essence of copyright notices.