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2 months ago+1 1 0Commented in Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon
(Corporate) greed. See, there are still people here that answer. Or read and post. But you're right, it is rare. Sadly. Maybe there'll be the ever wished for influx from Reddit here? A bit like The Year of the Desktop for Linux or Nuclear Fusion? haha
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Current Event
2 months ago
+1 1 0Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon
Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.
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2 months ago+3 3 0Commented in Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)
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2 months ago+4 4 0Commented in Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)
Leaving Facebook and Instagram did good for my site, as in: when leaving Facebook, my website tripled in visitors. A few months later I left Instagram and it doubled. So, there's proof of the locking in.
But I didn't leave it at that. First I discovered the robots.txt, which sounded good in the late nineties, but is simply ignored by those moguls in this age. Now I have a very aggressive .htaccess-file and firewall policy installed/created, to go against AI-crawlers and bots. And guess what? My site keeps on growing with visitors, and from what I've learned from the server stats, no Facebook references, no Instagram references are mentioned or even on the radar.
Also, the only automated crawlers or bots that I allow, are the regular ones for regular search engines, not the AI ones. And they are a minimum, compared to the real people that visit the site, all the while I'm on top of every search engine when you search for my name. So, I guess people do not need Facebook or Instagram to have an audience and AI is nothing more than redundant server loads. The stats showed me that the site can handle the visitors easily now, because AI bots can't get on it.
An example: ChatGPT can generate over 2000 hits per minute on the server, compared to a regular human that stays on the site for 5 minutes, which has about 40-something hits in those five minutes. So, it also saves a shitload of energy and the equipment everything is installed on.
IMHO Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all their ilks are destroying the internet as it is, not just content-wise, but also the infrastructure. And the energy use, omg, the energy they use is enormous. Count AI with it and you can get an idea how destructive they are.show more -
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2 months ago+4 4 0Commented in What's up with Snapzu?
I really enjoy the game-element that comes with this site (and which Reddit has copied). And what you say about the quick changes of all the posts, lots of updates, that was a fun element, too. I mean, quality content at such a pace is good for any website.
I'm not sure what happened here, but it wasn't really overnight. First there were lags, the site is still a little slow and then the amount of posts really declined. Some of my posts stayed over a month on the front page, which sounds good, but is surely not healthy for a website with the quality this site has and is.
I'm not giving up on it, that's for sure, but somehow it seems the founder(s) did.
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4 months ago
+19 19 086 Stories of Progress from 2024
Not everything that happened this year was terrible.
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4 months ago
+3 3 0Beauty and the Bike (2009)
This film follows two groups of young women from Darlington and Bremen. Between them, they discover what makes - and stops - teenage girls from cycling. The answer? "It's the Infrastructure, stupid!"
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Current Event
4 months ago
+34 34 0The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Analysis
4 months ago
+2 2 0Donald Trump - Dossier
Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies.
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Video/Audio
5 months ago
+23 23 0Theaters of War (2022)
How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood is a documentary based on the book National Security Cinema and the Spy Culture website. Sourced from thousands of pages of documents obtained by investigative journalist Tom Secker using the Freedom of Inform ...
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Current Event
5 months ago
+5 5 0Taliban Official Mocks US for Rejecting Kamala Harris: 'Americans Are Not Ready to Hand Over' Country 'to a Woman'
A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.
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5 months ago
+20 20 0There’s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Fluke—He’s America
The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.
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5 months ago
+2 2 0Fairy tales
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Analysis
6 months ago
+19 19 0Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down
The big energy firms have largely stopped denying the scientific consensus about climate change. But behind their rhetoric about “net zero emissions,” there’s an unflinching determination to keep profiting from oil and gas, whatever the cost.
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6 months ago
+7 7 0Mum Does the Washing - Joshua Idehen
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6 months ago
+2 2 0ESG - My Love for You
From the album Come with ESG (1983)
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6 months ago
+5 5 0Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters
Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals
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6 months ago
+2 2 0GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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Analysis
6 months ago
+2 2 0Quantum Soul: Researchers Seek to Unlock the Mystery of Life Beyond Death
Recently, scientists Edward W. Kamen from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Roger D. Kamen from Ferris State University have proposed a new theory that the human soul might actually be a type of quantum field.
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7 months ago
+32 32 0The Dumbest Business Idea in History
Business decisions made in the interest of “maximising shareholder value” have caused mass layoffs, environmental catastrophes, an endless list of corporate frauds, and record inequality in the workplace. The very same CEO who made millions of dollar ...
