Bellychris

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Reddit is about to get a little less accessible in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 63 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Really impressed with the reporting from the verge on the Reddit protest and beyond.

New York City: Social Media Is a Public Health Threat in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

As of now social media has no real oversight so there is nothing stopping it from selling user data and keeping up engagement by pushing something controversial in their feed. It doesn’t care about the users mental health and just looks at dollar signs. I can see where they are coming from…

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Jonny Greenwood Says The Smile “Have a Big Backlog of Ideas” (consequence.net)
 

Jonny Greenwood has been putting out a ton of music recently, but as it turns out, the stuff we’ve heard is only the tip of the iceberg. Just over a year after Radiohead offshoot project The Smile shared their great debut album A Light for Attracting Attention, the musician revealed in an upcoming interview with Consequence that he and his bandmates Thom Yorke and Tom Skinner are still sitting on a “big backlog of ideas.”

The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes I did the same. I used redact on my 14 year old account and edited all my comments and posts saying “removed due to Reddit’s new api policy”

The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Wow that’s really interesting but not surprising.

The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It may not “end” Reddit but I do think this will end Reddit as we know it. It will just be a shell of itself just like Facebook is no longer a place for college friends to connect and share photos.

Just deleted my 12 year old reddit account in c/ukcasual@lemmy.world
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just deleted my 14 year old account. Just a tip with redact when deleted you can edit all your comments and posts to say something. I entered "Deleted due to reddit's API policy".

Why are you posting about Reddit so much and not just enjoy the Fediverse? in c/chat@beehaw.org
[–] Bellychris@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I have been on reddit long enough to remember the migration from Digg to Reddit. Same thing, lots of "Hi from Digg posts" I see a lot of similarities to that migration.