SponsorBlock (alongside an ad blocker) is great for skipping ad reads plus a lot of other annoying bullshit.

I used to be the second guy, and then realized the system I was working in. America can fuck itself (and it is), I’m off to Europe later this year.

And the Lord commanded, “Your cart ride to the infirmary shall be charged at 100 times the cost of service,” and it was so.

I just assumed it would be terrible because it’s a hard problem to solve generally, but like 98% of the time I don’t even realize it’s on (and it’s really easy to turn off). It’s seriously incredible.

Yeah, or batching changes and confirming receipt with a hash. From what I’ve been reading, the design seems a little janky.

When the protocol favors monoliths, we’re right back to the Reddit problem

Interesting. Curious if you have a better understanding of ActivePub - do you happen to know if the protocol guarantees synchonicity and what mechanism guarantees it?

The implementation as far as I understand it is plain stupid. It prevents small instances from participating at any significant scale and seems happy to just drop data over the wire without reconciling. Seriously amateurish.

Dark Reader is amazing. Not just a great idea, but incredible execution.

I’m out of the loop - what sub is this referring to?

It makes me sad that a site as big as Reddit is letting down so much of it’s userbase for a quick buck

Given that they had opportunities to actually monetize these apps (force displaying ads, charging a reasonable price for API access), it seems obvious that it’s a move toward wiping out the third-party ecosystem entirely instead of just trying to get compensated for it.

The backtracking to allow mod tools to continue operating (those that still add irreplaceable value to the platform) while refusing to negotiate with other apps further confirms that.