the_green_bastard

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want to get back at Reddit, forget it exists. Stop giving them traffic. Stop contributing to their daily active user account, and participating in activities that boost KPIs for their IPO. Encourage your friends to do the same. The way to devalue Reddit is letting it fall into irrelevance, not making cute little “Fuck Spez” drawings on r/place.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is fucking amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Same super weird thing people on Mastodon do with “bird site.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I couldn’t agree more. Racing to block Threads when it’s completely unclear if Threads will even actually ever federate and what the implications of them federating will even be seems incredibly short sighted. Imagine how much innovation would have been lost on the internet if web server admins raced to block Google Chrome from accessing their content because they have some personal beef with Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Man it’s been ages since I heard the Eternal September argument. History truly is circular.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spam does not originate from large corporate email providers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Spam largely does not originate from these email providers, instead the open nature of email allows for spammers to easily spin up their own SMPT servers and go wild. Have you used email before?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Imagine how few people would be using email if all the regional ISP’s decided that they were going to preventatively block their users from being able to send / receive email from larger providers like Yahoo or Gmail.