I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.

Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.

IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.

1. Write blog spam with titles like “5 things …”

I don’t really have any more faith in Mercedes than I do with infotainment systems.

I don’t doubt that they have amazing org knowledge around integrating data systems, but how are they with… any of the myriad of other components of operating systems?

First party operating systems always seem to be terrible.

A good point well made.

Every online community I’ve ever seen has it’s fieflords.

At least with lemmy, if mods / admins regularly over-step, alternative communities can easily replace them.

How do you find Rust for the frontend?

Yeah no one who’s still there cares at all.

Yeah this is me, I think I first made an account in 2012 but never saw the point in keeping one longer than a year or so.

The article doesn’t really frame the problem apache is causing… I think it’s really just that someone might install OpenOffice thinking that it’s LibreOffice.

It’s definitely a dick move by Apache but… the reality is that they’re entitled to cling to the OpenOffice trademark if they wish, and it’s really LibreOffice’s branding problem.

Also the article doesn’t mention the 14 bug fix releases since 4.1, which seems kinda disingenuous.

I agree.

I’m a hobbyist. I don’t work on really large or complex projects. I just want to get the most productivity for my spare-time-dabbling and having tried a few times to get into typescript it seemed to create more “extra steps” for me than it saved.

Yeah it’s a weird article. “There’s some misinformation on the internet!”

I’m certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said… for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there’s a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords.

It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly “for the good of the community” they decided that bending over was the only option.

Dead right, 100% agreed.

In late June early July Reddit was awash with people predicting a digg like doom for reddit. I got sick of commenting that 90% of reddit users wouldn’t understand what was happening and 99% wouldn’t care. Reddit was always going to “win” in that they would carry on, more profitable than before.

I don’t know or care whether the reddit “experience” has diminished in either the short or the long term. I expect it has in some way, but it’s more like a continuation of a long-standing trajectory.

In any case, as you say, the landscape has changed. Back in April lemmy was more or less non-viable to scratch that thread based news-aggregator itch. That’s no longer the case.

Yeah I’ve never heard of Sync, and never seen this kind of love for an app before. A game maybe but a social media app? Meh.

I’m shocked.

I think terms like “better” or “worse” are a bit misleading in this case.

Suppose 10% of all newly appointed mods are enough of a good fit for reddit & the community to fulfil the role indefinitely. The other 90% are shit, but will either get sick of it or be exposed as shit within a few months. If you keep rolling the dice, while keeping the less-shit ones then over time the quality of the pool will improve.

I think we also need to acknowledge that reddit is changing. Perhaps you and me prefer the way it was, but there’s plenty of people will be just as happy or happier with whatever it becomes. In some ways maybe newly appointed mods can be a better fit, or able to grow into whatever it is that reddit is becoming.

So while undoubtedly the quality of moderation in some subs will take a nose dive, and may even cause some subs to die, I’m not convince that it will be a significant detriment to reddit’s advertising revenue in the long term. Note that I’m not saying the user experience will ever improve - I think that’s dead.

With all that in mind, I just can’t imagine being a reddit mod, and it’s hard to believe reddit mods saying that they do it for the community. Volunteering for things you care about is great, but you need to keep some dignity.

You might have just saved me a heap of money.

Screen sharing would suck with an ultra wide.

I think the term used in the post “spam or scam” might not be that accurate ? My understanding is that the vast majority of bots on reddit are there to influence opinions.

I’m pretty sure everyone (absolutely including myself) is heavily influenced by the reading the opinions of others, especially if it’s repetitive.

Additionally, I’m also sure that most people (yes probably me included) tend to post opinions or at lease phrase their own opinions in a way that they hope will gather more upvotes.

Also you don’t need to change peoples strongly held opinions - you only need to tip the scale in your favour.

With that in mind, imagine that you had infinite voting power. You can give a comment the 2,000 upvotes it needs for visibility, or give another comment however many downvotes it needs to fade into obscurity. It would be pretty easy to support a particular opinion or idea.

Now, as to why karma is required - if you’re going to direct your bot net to descend on a single comment and downvote it to oblivion, then you need them to look and behave the way people do rather than bots. A few comments here and there, a little karma, general meandering engagement.

That’s my take anyway - makes more sense than trying direct scams on reddit.

Is this really a thing that happens? I’m incredulous.

Would people really give their passwords and 2FA codes to a reddit stranger? … and of the people who would, how many of those would not give their passwords and 2FA codes to a reddit stranger if their karma was too low.

Same with the crypto example.

Do people really think that karma means someone is trust worthy ? That seems kind of absurd.