robyr

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Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen in c/main@sh.itjust.works
[–] robyr@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

This violates the CCPA at the very least.

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Police tell Bitcoin ATM firm to 'go to hell,' take scam victim's cash from machine (protos.com)
 

A crypto ATM maker and a Texas sheriff’s department are locked in a fierce legal battle after police seized cash from one of the company’s machines and handed it back to an 82-year-old woman who had been scammed into converting $15,000 into bitcoin.

This is great. More of this please.

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] robyr@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

303 2nd St is EXPENSIVE office space. I live about a block away and my old company used to rent a floor there. We were profitable and it was too expensive for us. If they get evicted a scant couple months after moving into the new space I will laugh my ass off.

Killing a giant (Reddit) in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] robyr@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

As someone who came from a similar background and started on BBSs and Usenet, this is a very insightful post that I hope people internalize. The "enshittification" of what came before was a process that took a long time in many cases and with less of a factor of a specific group of people pushing a culture or taste this experience has a chance to grow into something completely different.

Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org) in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] robyr@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Everyone forgets that compared to Digg at the time Reddit was positively Byzantine. It was not a good experience, but we all moved there anyway.