It blows my mind that Reddit can look at 90% of its communities going dark in some way and think, "yeah, this is fine."

EDIT (AGAIN): Thank you all for the comments on total subs. It's still clearly not 90%, but it still appears to be a significant portion of the active Reddit community. For the interested, check out the comments below for stats. :)

Major woof if true. u/spez is a true big brain business man.

If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

Someone get this man a hearing aid, because he's gone completely tone deaf.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.

I used to read a lot more, and I do remember this happening, but it happens a lot for me now with podcasts. I'm a big podcast junkie and I will often find myself going down a rabbit hole of thought and realizing I have no idea what they're talking about anymore.

I've felt this so hard the past few days. I would often post on Reddit and never get noticed or find myself just wading through a sea of garbage. Here, it's a lot less noisy but the interactions I do have are noticeably more genuine and that feels great.

About freaking time. I have it as an option but I hate using it. I’ve been looking for alternatives for a while now because I just expect to lose a couple hundred bucks in “processing” for every project I work on.

100% this. I ended every day doomscrolling until I got bored or the feed accidentally refreshed and sent me back to the top. Now I'm starting to see how bad that was for me.

"Alright boys, you heard him. He said the magic word. Let's pack our things and get out of here."

They're about 8 years behind the curve though. Just like a client who recently told me they were thinking of getting into NFTs to make some money.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

I've never made a Reddit bot (or used one for that matter) or requested an API key though, so I'm not sure what triggered it for me.

Disclaimer: I'm not an optician. I do, however, work in advertising and happen to have a number of clients in the lens manufacturing industry. Take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt.

Short answer is, not really.

Diagnosing vision issues is much more complicated than simply "is it in focus". The shape of the cornea, how your eye physically reacts to light, distance from an object, and disease all have an impact on how you perceive the world around you. That's why you have things like aberrations, glares, near sightedness, far sightedness, and a plurality of other vision problems. When someone is fitted for glasses or contact lenses, a number of parameters (read, dozens) are required get what is considered a proper "fit".

There are some similarities between how a camera lens works and our eyes, but you also have to consider that you're not just looking through the lens itself, you're focusing on a screen that's attached to the lens. So, if you can't focus your eye sight at the distance the screen is at, it doesn't matter what the camera is seeing, because it'll look like garbage to you either way.

This is the thing that gets me. I'm fine if Reddit wants to diversify revenue, or ask developers to pay a fair share. But the callous disregard for developers, users, moderators, and communities they built is beyond the pale. I don't know how someone can look at the timeline of events and how Reddit has handled this and think, "this is a company that deserves my money". Huffman's comments in the press alone, leaked or not, make him look like a giant d*uche canoe. The moment my saved posts are transferred out I'm gone.

Wait WHAT.

Oh, so you agree, it’s good* writing, not female leads.

*better. Better writing.

I never used Apollo (I'm an Android user) but I tried wefwef for the first time today and I'm surprised at how natural it feels. If this is what Apollo was like I'm sad I didn't get a chance to experience it.

I’ve actually had pretty good success with ChatGPT when I go in expecting it to hallucinate a significant chunk of what it spits back at me. I like to think of it as a way to help process my own ideas. If I ask questions with at least a base understanding of the topic, I can then take whatever garbage it gives me and go off and find real solutions. The key is to not trust it whole cloth to give you the right answer, but to give you some nuggets that set you on the right path.

I think I’ve basically turned ChatGPT into my rubber duck.

This makes sense to me. I was wondering how many were active, engaged communities and how many were shells or ghost towns.

Ayyyyye don't at me.

...yes. Yes I did.