That makes a lot of sense – when I’m buying something online I like the excitement of not knowing whether a product will cost 20 or 20,000 “dollars” based on how the scam market is doing that day lol

Ya that website is totally useless if you don’t already know what Pleroma is, it explains what the fediverse is like 4 times but never explains how the app integrates with it lol

The “too good to be true” sell and complete lack of detail / pricing on their website is sketchy imo. I’m immediately suspicious of any org that profits off of piracy in such an opaque way

Ya I’m surprised that people are advocating for Plex these days especially in a self hosting community, it’s overbloated and mostly exists to force their FAST service down your throat

I’ve never used one myself but I’ve heard talk of various ones either A) taking the public (real) like number and extrapolating the dislikes based on an old like/dislike ratio available for the video from before the dislike removal (doesn’t work on new videos) or B) the extension includes a feature where the user can like/dislike the video within the extension and then the dislike number is extrapolated using the public (real) like number and the extension’s private like/dislike ratio. In either case the number is not connected to the “real” dislike count that YouTube would have access to internally

Pretty sure those extensions all use some sort of estimate methodology, the dislikes aren’t available via any apis or anything

To cut out the BS legal double speak, it’s so you can have a steam-like interface that’s designed to be natively compatible with pirated games and allow friends to access them from your server

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It makes sense to me that people are more worried about potentially any corporation / bad actor accessing their data rather than one

It isn’t AI, it’s the economy. Companies that got money from investors regardless of their profitability now have to survive on their own profits which forces them to restructure

This is a great example of how aggressively useless chatgpt is at this kind of thing, the response is literally just the prompt rephrased and packaged like an answer lol

At a high level it just comes down to the company not being structured to generate profit – fundamentally it exists to justify moving money from investors to the owners of reddit. That has worked up until now but in the current economic climate investors are looking for a return and it’s exposing how many tech companies have been burning cash because of how easy it was to get with minimal accountability. Any feature reddit adds hasn’t actually had to increase revenue, it’s had to convince investors that it is going to increase revenue, which is why the few features they’ve added have basically been clones of features that attracted investors to other platforms (like the video streaming thing)

After nearly two decades of running the company that way it’s going to be hard to pivot to actually generating money directly to cover what I imagine are loads of unnecessary expenses and inflated salaries

Curious what you use a local version of MediaWiki for?

I respect the enterprise-level IT operation you run for your family lol