Apologies are free and valueless
Can we start with the CEOs? Pretty sure shatGPT can do their jobs easily
The site hosted by y-combinator defends the former president of y-combinator. Weird
Kagi summary:
- The Android Market (now Google Play Store) was launched in October 2008 with the T-Mobile G1 phone, helping establish app ecosystems on mobile.
- Before app stores, finding and downloading apps was difficult through various online stores and carrier stores with limited selection and updates.
- The Android Market centralized the app experience and discovery, giving access to a growing variety and number of apps in one place.
- Early app successes helped drive more users, phones, developers and apps in a reinforcing cycle that grew the app economy exponentially.
- Popular early apps filled gaps in Android's capabilities in areas like weather, file management, flashlights as built-in features were still being developed.
- Later apps brought extra abilities beyond necessities, like music streaming, ebooks, games, social media and more.
- The article reminisces on the novelty of app stores and ecosystems in their early days compared to their ubiquitous presence today.
- Over 100,000 apps were available by mid-2010 and over 3.5 million apps today on Google Play.
- We now take app discovery, updates, and the overall app experience for granted due to how well app stores do their job.
- The article credits the Android Market and Apple App Store for establishing apps as the norm and changing our expectations of mobile.
I'll save you the trouble. MakeMKV and ffmpeg
Either way it's a no effort account and you can basically ignore them, as their contributions will most likely be garbage either way
When I used to work in an office, I'd always use wireguard to tunnel my traffic on my phone back through my home IP. Got to use their wifi and still maintain my privacy
This is even easier now with tools like tailscale
The author chose to host on a platform that does that. So it is their fault
Reddit was originally about the content, with the users being an afterthought. Thats why there weren't bios and avatars and all the other crap common amongst web2.0 social sites of the time.
Gold started out as a little donation thing, with a few minor perks, like no ads, longer pages, seen comment remembering, and so forth. Nothing groundbreaking, just more of a "thanks for helping" thing.
Sometime in the 10s, after the OG reddit admins left, and reddit became "independent" of condé, they started chasing user engagement. Profiles, avatars, bios, userpage posts, and, of course, all the award spam. All of it antithetical to what reddit was initially about.
IMO the original vision of reddit was great. I keep avatars turned off on my lemmy user, because I don't really care to see em.
It's also about the content threads will bring
Think about all the dimwits, grifters, and douchebags on Instagram. Think about how shitty front page reddit posts were. Do you want that here?
I worked at reddit during the Digg transition. We all were amazed at how utterly tone-deaf Digg was, how they had already taken some of their problematic features (higher karma users votes being stronger, votes being public, etc) to the extreme (letting companies literally purchase front-page space that wasn't marked as an ad, etc).
Fast forward 12 years and reddit is somehow upping the ante and being even worse. At least Digg 4 ran well on the browsers of the time. new.reddit can kick up the CPU on an M2 Max fully loaded with RAM
And it's still worse than a picture of a hill in Sonoma