funkyb

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[–] funkyb@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

that's both unreasonable and not the right way to approach this. Your assumption is that if you knew the names of all possible processes that you could then be in a position to make better decisions. the problem is names are useless - it's trivial for software to run under different names, so believing names can help you somehow is a waste of time.

 

Is there any way to block an entire instance, instead of just individual communities one at a time? My feed has a ton of stuff from feddit.de, I don't speak the language.

#kbin

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

been fully remote since 2008. It was fun to watch everyone else learn how to do that :)

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

lemmy may have growth pains, but I don't expect reddit exit to be a crash more than a slow burn.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

can't tell if that's flippant or just uninformed. Reddit data was a significant component of the development of most big name LLMs.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I've been doing this too, but, why do they show up in the first place if I'm not subscribed to them?

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, but shouldn't we also need to subscribe to communities/mags from these instances? I know i see lots from .de domains in my feed, but I am not subscribed to any of the communities/mags on the instances those posts originate from.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Brand safety as an idea isn't dangerous, and there's an entire sub-industry in the adTech space devoted to it. The bottom line is most companies don't want their ads showing up on sites or in close proximity to certain types of content (illegal, political, hate speech, etc.). Services from these companies are used to make sure when doing ads on the open web, your DSP doesn't inadvertently put your ads in places like that. One example: https://integralads.com/solutions/brand-safety-suitability/

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I think what he meant was that means they're buying ads, not selling them.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I get your point, but keeping it in the news and dialog outside of reddit is also good, and that is more likely to happen due to things going on inside of it.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

good grief i hope not. Email & captcha are reasonable; a short form essay on why you should be graced with the ability to participate is super cringe.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I welcome our new John Overlord.

[–] funkyb@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

meh, I don't mind it. Add the content you want to add. Scroll on past the content you don't want to read. It's not a big deal.

 

Reddit is redirecting some impressions away from existing communities, and some advertisers are pausing campaigns.

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