@ZorbaTHut: Thank you so much for putting in the effort to make this site! The effort looks Herculean. I admit I was a little skeptical when I read months ago what you were building, but it looks like it all came together swimmingly.
When you feel like it's safe to do so, I and I'm sure many others would love to hear more explicitly the inside baseball about what happened behind the scenes between you and the reddit jannies.
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1yr ago
Image embeds are a terrible idea for the culture we're trying to inculcate. It will invariably be used for low-effort meming. Links to images are fine if you need a visual aid to explain an idea.
AEO was just a symptom of the underlying cause: advertising. Every unpopular thing reddit did, from the site redesign, to pushing people to the app as hard as they could, to sanitizing with AEO was done in the service of making vanilla content they can use to sell eyeballs to advertisers. Advertising corrupts everything it touches.
Eating is inexorably intertwined with health, so you shouldn't brush aside those concerns so easily. I don't think humanity knows enough about the science of nutrition to be as sure as your vegan friends are. I'd be interested in reading their sources, if you could share, but the whole field of nutrition is still in its infancy. There are enough cases where eating something increases or decreases the absorption of something else. And out of the quintillions of configurations of molecules that exist in our food, I'm skeptical that we've identified the few dozen micro- and macro-nutrients that are essential for life. Babies and children are in a real fight to develop and gain weight and size, and it's a mistake to toy with any diet other than the one that is most likely to give them the most nutrition the easiest.
(Also, vegan diets are quite new. They were impossible until 50 years ago, as there were no non-animal sources of vitamin B12.)
Don’t forget the original move off of slatestarcodex.com, triggered by harassment from the New York Times.
That goes against everything I've read about veganism. Do you know any vegans who don't supplement B12?
ace
1yr ago
Not a specific source, but I believe this opinion is widely held and discussed often on Hacker News.
ace
1yr ago
I look at this website, and it looks modeled on reddit. Is that what you meant?
ace
1yr ago
Maybe.
But reddit wasn't like this pre-2014(?). Early in it's life it was much more pro-free speech. Something happened. My guess is words were exchanged in the board room when they realized they couldn't monetize users the way things were going.
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1yr ago
So I’ve now been banned on all of Reddit’s neutral subs. This might not belong here but perhaps we should go back to Reddit?
Sounds akin to spousal abuse.
ace
1yr ago
emasculation of women
emasculated women
Did you perhaps mean "masculation of women" and "masculated women"? What you wrote means the opposite of that.
ace
1yr ago
Joe Rogan is no longer the biggest creator in podcasting. He stopped making podcasts 2 years ago.
ace
1yr ago
Spotify paid Rogan $200 million to stop releasing podcasts and instead release his content in their walled garden, which doesn't have an RSS feed. I used to be a regular listener, but I haven't heard Rogan's voice since the switch. 2 years on, and I'm still salty about it.
ace
1yr ago
If you have a way to listen to Rogan without a Spotify account or app, I'd love to hear it.
Can you expand on that? What makes a union worse if their employer happens to be the government?
ace
1yr ago
You’re single and don’t watch porn. Low libido sounds well within the range of normal.
ace
1yr ago
Yea. Date a girl you’re really into, and if you still have a low sex drive, only then is it a problem.
TheMotte was the only ray of sunshine keeping me on reddit. Good riddance reddit! You were once a wonderful place to have open discussions, but that was a long, long time ago.
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