This isn’t about influencers, it’s about basic privacy rights being taken away.

“Jarvis”

There is a modlog that contains all this information, but I don’t know of a way to parse that or automate it into notifications.

People who preorder a phone are out of their fucking mind, simple as that.

Agreed, there’s enough room to go two lines down and many up. Android can already go up/down without issues if you have a keyboard with arrow keys, so keyboards would just need to implement the gesture.

IOS also has contextual tab buttons that are very nice. I wish other companies would copy the things apple does well instead of the bullshit they actually copy.

It has both by default. If you hold, you get the language selector but if you swipe, it moves the cursor. Gboard also has some acceleration on the swipes which makes them wildly imprecise, now I use florisboard which doesn’t do that.

That was originally a Gboard feature but it’s great, so every decent keyboard supports it now.

Of course they will, but the fact that businesses don’t have to buy everything as a pack means that they will consider alternatives to office and onedrive instead of just using what they pay for already.

Nice, that means more businesses will finally be able to escape the total microsoft dependence and just use the products they need.

Apple is just as bad as the rest, they just have better marketing.

If you want privacy, you need free software. Anything else is just the illusion of privacy.

I’ll get a pixel and put grapheneOS or calyxOS on there.

It’s a bit like buying and hacking a console: You take away their recurring revenue or data collection, but still get the hardware for a price substituted by that stuff.

GrapheneOS or maybe CalyxOS since the grapheneOS developer seems a little mentally unstable.

Not using windows. I’ll also stop using google’s version of android soon.

The comments by people consist of nothing but emojis and occasionally one to five words.

Scattered around that, you’ll also find a lot of bots spamming websites that either sell cheap stuff like LED lighting and swamp coolers with ridiculous markups (about 10x) or are straight up scams.

Those could be filtered out easily but instagram just cares more about the traffic than their users.

With moderators leaving en masse, reddit will move into that direction. They won’t ever get this shitty, but definitely a lot closer than they are now.

I agree and those reasons you listed are why I don’t have any issue parting ways with this platform, but I don’t think the general public does. People do use instagram and tiktok to view what I (and I’m guessing you do too) consider noise.

And after all, the general public is who views the ads on their site and brings in the money.

As someone who spends time curating the content I view without any care given to what other people enjoy, I’m often shocked at how terrible the content on something like youtube’s front page is when I get logged out. It’s easy to forget that a lot of people just don’t care and use the internet to turn off their brain.

The content will stay, at least in terms of posts. If the value-adders go to other sites, someone will just repost that value back to reddit.

It’ll devolve into something like instagram, where it’s literally impossible to discuss anything in the comments. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean they stop making money.

Yes, that’s why you need to check the profiles and look for the criteria I listed.

I remember just one time where I falsely accused someone to be a bot based on that and I’ve done it about a hundred times.

Large communities organizing for r/place to discuss what they’ll paint is probably a lot of traffic.

I’m sure that most of the mods that haven’t been removed yet have some plans for r/place to really fuck with the admins

I think it’ll end up with admins skipping the 5 minute timer and banning users that draw over the flags representing those admins’ political opinions, just like last year. But the admins have made enemies now so the outcry will be much bigger.

I’ll personally going to participate and try to get myself banned without breaking any rules and if that happens, I’ll make sure to post about it. Let’s hope the front page will be filled with posts of that.

Bots mostly. Take a look at the site, you’ll notice many usernames consisting of a random adjective or noun in front of a random noun and a random number at the back. Sometimes they are in camel case, sometimes they are separated by dashes or underscores.

Go to the profiles of those. Bot accounts display that they are 6-12 months old and have no activity for the first few months. The activity starts with out-of-place comments on reposts made by other users (they never comment on OC), so they are likely copied from other users that commented below the original post.

After the initial commenting phase, they start posting. It’s never OC, just reposts and they never reply to questions in the comments.

At this point I’m convinced those bots are deployed by reddit themselves because they are so easy to spot and no action is taken against them.

Then there’s also the porn bots which collect properly tagged material from other sites and post it to the corresponding subreddits. You can spot them by looking at their profiles, they post 20-30 images an hour without pause. I’m pretty sure those are made by users, we’ll see once the API changes go live.

Edit: Typos