Valen
Atheist. Retired science teacher and union president. Liberal. Boardgames. Rats make awesome pets. He/Him.
Incompatible with lever-pulling.
For I was born upon the fathoms, Neither harbor nor port have I known. The great universe is the ocean I travel, And the Earth is my blue boat home.
I’m a retired science teacher and union president. I’ve had a history of depression. I like science fiction.
My favorite long game (as in over a couple of hours) is Merchant of Venus. For shorter games I like Azul, Splendor, 7 Wonders Duel, That’s Pretty Clever, Lost Cities R&W, Star Realms, and more.
Hi SanityFM,
I’ve been here 5 days or so, but been busy… Been away for a few days travelling, currently in Coimbra, Portugal. Anyway, I just finished reading Dune for the nth time, because I want it fresh in my mind when the second half of the movie comes out. I’ve also been writing up stuff to help explain the fediverse and the reddit stuff.
https://babylon4.com/fediverse and https://babylon4.com/rexxit
Hi neamhsplach,
I’ve been here 5 days or so, but been busy… Been away for a few days travelling, currently in Coimbra, Portugal. Anyway, I haven’t been doing much union stuff since I retired, but have been boosting union content on Mastodon. I’ve also been writing up stuff to help explain the fediverse and the reddit stuff.
https://babylon4.com/fediverse and https://babylon4.com/rexxit
I’ve heard about Reddit removing a mod from a popular subreddit, then turning the subreddit public (sorry, don’t have the reference). They can always stop the blackout by force. But once they do that, those mods will have definite incentive to start the communities in the fediverse.
What I actually want is to be able to pay Reddit or Google or whoever it is a fair amount of money, say the amount they’d make by showing me a reasonable number of ads, plus a bit more. Say 10% more. In exchange for making more money from me than they would with ads, they would let me use old.reddit.com, or a third party app and not show me any ads.
I get an ad free service, Reddit gets more money than they would have before.
I figure that the amount would be easily less than $10 per year.
They would have to show something like this: at the end of each month, they tell me that I consumed so much of Reddit. They would have shown an ad every 25 posts, at $0.0005 per ad impression. So my payment for the month will be $x.
I agree. I’m primarily a lurker, and had to view “contribute” as “would appreciate such and such a community”.
As an aside, I remember someone asking on Reddit for all the lurkers to be more active and post a lot. I really don’t think this user would like Reddit if suddenly the number of posts/comments increased by at least a factor of 10, most of which would be stuff like “I agree with this” instead of just upvoting.
I’ve been really happy and surprised at how well https://wefwef.app works. It’s a PWA and is slick as snot.
I don’t care which password manager you use, as long as you use one (and it’s secure). It’s such a game changer.