Not that great.

Starting a new (internal) role tomorrow which got me a £4k payrise and is going to set me on a path to chartered accountancy, which is great when just three months ago my employer announced plans to lay off my whole department and outsource hundreds of jobs to India. After escaping redundancy and purchase ledger (I have been working in PL jobs for the past three years and desperately wanted an out), I should be feeling jubilant.

If anything I feel the opposite.

My sadness/frustration comes from the fact that my love life has all but flatlined. I grow sick of trying to use Tinder, Bumble, Okcupid, Hinge and pretty much any other dating app to exist and getting zero matches from legitimate people. I grow sick of being given false platitudes about how I’ll find someone eventually, when I just know that I’m going to go through my thirties still a virgin.

Part of me seriously worries about success, that I’ll soon each the point where I could command a high five figure, possibly a six figure salary, then suddenly have women flock to me not out of admiration but out of wanting my money.

Seems very coincidental that he started some twitter beef with Greta Thunberg right before he was arrested.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he got tipped off that GRETA (The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings) were building a case against him, then being the weapons-grade moron that he is, assumed they meant Greta Thunberg.

Completely understand why you’re doing this. I think you want this place to be more like an alternative to Tildes that doesn’t descend into rampant shitposting, and that’s completely understandable.

It’s a good thing I made an account on lemmy.world too, so I won’t fully miss out on the fediverse at large. Only reason I did was because I originally thought my app to join Beehaw was rejected (in actuality, I just didn’t get the sign-up email, couldn’t be arsed to check my spam folder and didn’t even try to login for a month.)

I don’t think it’s wrong for Spez to charge for API access, but the rates he’s vowing to charge are excessive and clearly designed to nuke third-party apps from their ecosystem.

As for how I’d make money from Reddit in his shoes, I’d:

1. Add more features for Reddit Premium, like being able to view more than 1,000 items on the front page, video uploads in comments, or enhanced search functionality.
2. Add OnlyFans-style subscriptions or revenue sharing for partnered subreddits/users, with a 90% to 10% cut between content creators and Reddit.
3. Bring back RPAN as a full time streaming platform to compete with the likes of Twitch/Kick.

I’ve been a lot more active on Beehaw over the past few days than on Reddit. Tried to get into Kbin but the servers have been remarkably unstable and I don’t like the fact that you can only view 25 comments at once.

I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.

https://wegotthiscovered.com/social-media/reddit-reportedly-removing-moderators-and-forcing-subreddits-to-reopen-to-break-protest/

As somebody who isn’t even a Star Trek fan, I still think a flood of trekkies is infinitely cooler than a flood of white supremacists which have killed similar platforms.

Apparently the head mod of /r/Tumblr has already been forcibly demodded. A bit weird that Tumblr of all places has been the starting point.

The News and Worldnews subreddits prove there are people still willing to lick Spez’s boots.

Rumble is a major one, but they’re more well-known for housing creators that have been banned from mainstream platforms, like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Donald Trump, etc.