Netweasel

Netweasel · 2023-07-10T23:09:24+00:00

Seven years ago today, a young man was shot on the streets of D.C., and died of that shooting a short while later.

While the murder is still listed as unsolved, one of the interesting things about the case is just how many people seemed to not want the murder investigated.

Or even talked about.

Netweasel · 2023-06-28T18:38:07+00:00

Just wanted to check...

Is there any place where one can find the actual statistics of Saidit, and its subsaidits?

Total number of subs, total number of private subs, "comments per day" of subs (and Saidit itself), sub growth, stuff like that?

Second question: is "subsaidit" an actual in-use term, or has everybody gone to just calling them "subs"?

Netweasel · 2023-06-23T15:06:13+00:00

Consider this hypothetical situation:

An entity decrees to a second entity that unless the second entity either does, or does not do, a Certain Thing, their words will not be seen by the Larger Community.

The question is: Is that action, taken by the First Entity, an unacceptable restriction of Free Speech, or is it a case of an Entity upholding the standards of the aforementioned Larger Community?

Think carefully before you answer, for I have not yet named the First Entity, Second Entity, Larger Community, nor the Certain Thing.

The second question is: Should it matter to the question who or what the Entities or Things specifically are?

And the third question (while I'm asking) is: What is your opinion on the concept of The Intolerance of Intolerance?

Netweasel · 2023-06-13T15:59:43+00:00

Hey, you guys... I just noticed!

Down on the sidebar... "Created by TheGhostofJoeHill June 13, 2018."

Netweasel · 2023-06-13T13:23:14+00:00

As the situation stands (or at least how is is being presented) is this:

Reddit has this huge database of content that it got for free, from all of us. Third Party App Developers have made things for the users to access that data more easily. Reddit wants money from them, allegedly so much money that the 3PA Developers are going to shut down.

The solution (from the 3PA devs side) seems obvious -- the Blackjack and Hookers Scenario. A consortium of the major 3PAs goes back to the original open source Reddit code <waves in Saidit> and they just build their own Reddit-like database to draw from instead. Just cut Reddit out of the loop.

It might take a while to get up and running, but what else are they going to do while shut down?

The solution from the Reddit Side is even easier:

Look.... these companies are making bank off of this database, and we want a piece of that action. We don't want to kill the geese laying the Golden Eggs, but still, we'd like to at least a few eggs for our trouble.

So we're going to charge these developers... let's call it a tax. Not a set amount, but a percentage of what they are making off the Reddit Database. Let's say ten percent. Not enough to drive them out of business, but what we feel would be our fair share. They would still be getting 90%, enough to keep going, and we would get 10% -- enough for us to keep going too.

And that would still leave room for new developers to come up with tools to make things even better for everybody.

Of course, the Reddit Solution has within it the assumption that Reddit just wants money, and not complete control of everything, which has yet to be shown.