turquoise

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I've created this community because I was looking for one to participate in and it didn't exist yet.

Since then I've come to the realization that I can't commit the time that's necessary to make this into a successful community.

That's why I'm looking for someone who would like to take over and to whom I can transfer the community.

All that I ask is that you give it your best shot.

If you're interested please reply to this post.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by turquoise@lemmy.world to c/siloseries@lemmy.world
 

I wonder if and how the strikes affect season 2, haven't been able to find much information specific to Silo.

Anyone that came across an article or other form of information that could shed a light on this?

[–] turquoise@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you seen !rust@programming.dev?

Not a Rust dev but it looks pretty active to me.

[–] turquoise@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It’s not out of solidarity, advertisers are worried they’ll turn into lightning rods: https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ripples-through-reddit-as-advertisers-weather-moderators-strike/

[–] turquoise@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can listen to the song on his YouTube channel as well: https://youtu.be/KOFChFxsJ3I

 

This is the Season 1 Discussion thread for the book readers.

This might contain book spoilers
Go to the non-book spoiler discussion thread if you don't want to read book spoilers.

Allowed:

  • Everything that happened during Season 1 of the Silo TV show
  • Book spoilers

Off limits:

  • Anything beyond season 1 of the tv show
 

This is the Season 1 Discussion thread for the non-book readers.

Allowed:

  • Everything that happened during Season 1 of the Silo TV show

Off limits:

  • Any book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread for that
  • Anything beyond season 1 of the tv show
 

Book spoiler discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 10: “Outside”

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  • Everything pertaining to this episode
  • Book spoilers

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  • Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
 

Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 10: “Outside”

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  • Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes

Off limits:

  • Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that
  • Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
 

Book spoiler discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 9: “The Getaway”

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  • Everything pertaining to this episode
  • Book spoilers

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  • Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
 

Discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 9: “The Getaway”

Allowed:

  • Everything pertaining to this episode and prior episodes

Off limits:

  • Book spoilers, use the book spoiler discussion thread of that
  • Anything that pertains to episodes beyond the episode of this thread
 

Book spoiler discussion thread for Silo season 1 episode 8: “Hanna”

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  • Everything pertaining to this episode
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[–] turquoise@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In short: money.

Long story is that a lot of these tech companies started as startups funded by VCs.
Borrowing money was cheap so they got dumped buckets of money onto them to burn in an effort to try to get a foothold and/or kill off competition by undercutting them.

Now that they've gained a foothold and in some cases have a near monopoly or duopoly and now that borrowing money isn't cheap anymore, they need to start cutting cost if not outright turn a profit.

And so the enshittification begins.

Specifically for Twitter, Musk needs to cut cost because he bought Twitter at a severe premium and has made it less valuable by the minute ever since he took over. This to the point that he is leaving bills unpaid.

Specifically for Reddit, they've burned through all that VC money and have been eying a juicy exit in the form of an IPO. An IPO would be a payday for everyone who initially invested into Reddit because now they can sell their shares for more than what they invested (or at least that's their hope). In order to get a good price once they go public they want to cut cost and increase revenue to seem as valuable as possible.

Specifically for YouTube, the ad game has been generating less and less revenue over time and advertisers have been burned in the past by having their ads placed next to objectionable content.
So the knee-jerk reaction is to severely tighten the rules for content, lest they be demonetized.
This however made creators realize that their livelihood in the form of the pittance that's called AdSense payout is very fragile, so they started moving to doing sponsorships, soliciting Patreon donations and partnering with Nebula.

Now YouTube is missing out on those revenue streams and often ad revenue as well as creators often turn off ads on their video when they have sponsor deals etc. So what does YouTube do? They started monetizing videos of creators who are not eligible for their partner program (i.e. place ads on videos and not share it with creators) and not give those creators the option to turn off ads, they started severely increasing the amount of ads on videos that do run ads, they started severely pushing YouTube Premium and now they're cracking down on adblockers.

[–] turquoise@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You're fine, it's OP that seems to misunderstand how things work.

The community they talk about is on another instance (lemmy.ml), the beauty of federation is that any instance can have any community and user, and people can choose which one they subscribe to (or sub to both).

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