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  • Luccus@feddit.orgtoReddit Was Fun@lemmy.worldThis sums up much of Reddit now
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    20 hours ago

    Most of that knowledge was only deleted but not saved in any other way […]

    That was perhaps the saddest part about leaving Reddit. I also opted for the edit-and-delete approach, because I didn’t want Reddit to use my posts to train LLMs. But man. Years of trying to be helpful, sometimes really going out of my way to address something properly; gone.

    But honestly, I don’t know of any alternative. Even if I archived everything, it wouldn’t be as accessible to anyone as it used to be on Reddit.

    Reddit had (and imo still has) a monopoly on searchable advice from strangers. There’s a reason they wanted Reddits data to train LLMs.



  • [Imagine the ‘into the square hole’ format]

    Where does the dept go? Into the phone.
    Where do friends go? Into the phone.
    Where does politics go? Into the phone.
    Where does biometrics go? Into the phone.
    Where does 2FA come from? From the phone.
    Where does 2FA go? Into the phone.


  • A friend had his American friend come to visit him last year and they had me over to chill.

    At some point he told a joke that didn’t land and excused himself over nothing. So I said, completly straight faced, “Oh, I’m sorry, that was really funny, this is just how we laugh around here”.

    It was probably funnier in the moment, but the next ten minutes was me trying to keep a straight face while he was trying to get me to laugh. We were both in on the joke and it was hysterical.

    Like, this is by all means a dumb stereotype. But it’s pretty harmless. And if you laugh at it, it literally disproves itself.















  • The demographic that used to rely on DNS/hosts.txt-based ad blockers and then switched to more integrated solutions like NoScript, uBlock, or uMatrix.

    Seeing ads (especially given how aggressive and ubiquitous they’ve got) is now just low key upsetting. All that bandwidth and processing power for distracting me while I’m trying to find something.

    I remember seeing a auto-playing video once on mobile, checking my data and it just ate 2MB of my 100MB monthly plan. Fuck, I was so angry, I blocked the entire site.