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1 month ago
(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
Posted in: Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon
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1 month ago
Current Event Maternitus
Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon
Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.
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1 month ago
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1 month ago
Comment Maternitus
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 -
1 month ago
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.
Posted in: What's up with Snapzu?
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2 months ago
Comment Maternitus
I have been a laboratory worker for an R&D department of Cargill for nearly eight years (1990 - 1998) and I can tell with certainty that this company sucks ass. They profit immensely from the subsidies meant for farmers, make huge profits by just trading in grains, soybeans and corn, without even using it for food production. The products they make are far from healthy and looking at the R&D department, they create products, whether people need them or not. If not, then they push (and bully) producers of food into using their products.
In the early 90's they were already heavily into GMO's, the lab where I worked did research into genetic properties of soy, corn and wheat, in order to know what to manipulate to enhance yields. No ethical or safety questions asked. Hardcore for the bottom line. Same counts for environment, food safety or the well being of farmers.
There is a clear reason they keep it as a family-owned company and are not represented on the stock exchange: they would go under in no time if they had shares to trade.
I could write a book or some books about the happenings within that company, I have seen so many things that are plain wrong.show more -
2 months ago
Current Event Maternitus
86 Stories of Progress from 2024
Not everything that happened this year was terrible.
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3 months ago
Achievement Maternitus
Trend Setter
Have 25/25 snaps reach the maximum grid size on the front page grid view! Congratulations Maternitus on this achievement!
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3 months ago
Video/Audio Maternitus
Beauty 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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3 months ago
Current Event Maternitus
The 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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3 months ago
It's a fun song indeed! Good singalong! :-)
Posted in: Donald Trump - Dossier
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3 months ago
Indeed, we aint seen nothing yet.
Posted in: Donald Trump - Dossier
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3 months ago
Analysis Maternitus
Donald 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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3 months ago
Video/Audio Maternitus
Theaters 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 Information Act, it reveals how the US military lie to and manipulate people using Hollywood films and TV. From rewriting scripts to pitching ideas to planting military technologies into entertainment products, this is a revelatory tale about propaganda i...
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4 months ago
Current Event Maternitus
Taliban 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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4 months ago
Comment Maternitus
This was a very nice read. And wow, also.
Should I get my crystal ball? Just to ask what can go wrong when that acquisition is complete? I'm not sure the ball can handle it all and might show some cracks after telling me. Because it's a fucking lot that can go wrong.
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4 months ago
Comment Maternitus
It's Linux here for more than two decades, both for personal and professional use (my art studio). Never been disappointed by it, made a lot of people (and several companies) happy with it by installing and configuring it for them.
And, of course, I use Arch btw. ;-)
Posted in: Would you use Windows 11 or something else?
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4 months ago
Expression Maternitus
There’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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4 months ago
Image Maternitus
Fairy tales
