samick1
Just a thought - you should wait until the blackout is over at least, those submissions aren’t accessible right now. After that, do it ASAP. Some communities are already permanently dark and more will be over time.
I’ve used a Python app called bdfr though not for the purposes of archiving an entire account. There are tutorials on how to do so out there if you search; perhaps there’s a more purpose-made tool.
I joined reddit in 2007 but I’d been surfing it for a year or so already. Early reddit was amazing. There were no subreddits yet, which was fine, there weren’t that many users. The concept of subreddits was innovative when they introduced them, but once you could create your own it was pretty mind blowing.
I always felt like reddit was “hiding” from the common folk. It had a plain white background with default blue & purple links and it looked like someone’s personal project. Digg had lots of gradients and borders and glitz but reddit had a real “function over form” quality that really appealed to me as an engineer.
It makes me sad to think about how many terrible things it’s been put through by its dumb ding dong owners over the years.
Has that happened with Mastodon?
Orgs spending volunteer money have to be careful, they have to allocate money to their stated causes or they could get in trouble. A Lemmy instance would have to coincide with their agenda.
A philanthropist can do what they want, but they could still attract criticism for not donating to world hunger or some more optics-friendly cause. They’d also probably end up with a fairly popular instance which would require effort spent on maintenance and moderation.
I think people who actually want to run instances will end up running them. I’m considering starting one. Some of those will end up running really good, stable and desirable instances which can then attract donations for the cause.
I’m 99% sure reddit does a lot of backflips to detect and prevent that. One casual bad actor can only burn up so many IP addresses or API keys in a short period, and I think there’s some undisclosed/“secret” logic to it. It’s like burglary - you can’t stop it but you can cost the burglar sufficient time or money to deter them.
I haven’t dug into Lemmy’s code yet but I am curious what countermeasures against abuse are apart of federation. Signed, time-boxed tokens and IP addresses could be part of the protocol to mitigate abuse via federation.
This is a good thermometer reading. I’m pretty sure many communities are prepared to extend this indefinitely if current plans aren’t reverted. I do believe him when he says
We absolutely must ship what we said we would.
I don’t know who the angry VCs are who get to pull his strings but if this gets their attention - it may or it may not - reddit might budge on things a bit.
At the end of the day the company is hopeless to make a profit with him at the helm. This memo sounds slightly nervous and lacks confidence. He has no clue what he’s doing.
Several companies have called for this, and they all have an ulterior agenda. OpenAI just wants street cred and to have their competitors regulated. The rest simply don’t have a product and want everyone to slow down while they catch up.
Regardless, they all know on some level the government can’t stop AI just like they can’t stop piracy or cryptocurrency.
It’s not how they managed success, it’s that they ran out of it. Making a successful niche kitchen appliance is not a business, it’s one of many things that a successful niche kitchen appliance business does.
Successful businesses also allocate capital optimally, build formidable brand and product moats, hire amazing managers and build fortified balance sheets. They forgot to do all that stuff. (See also: reddit)