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  1. Comment on Twitter's dying. Time to drop the news paywalls. in ~news

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    Usually a publication is paywalled before I can even assess if their quality is worth the subscription they're begging for. I'd rather pay $1 for a day of access, or 30c to view a single article...

    Usually a publication is paywalled before I can even assess if their quality is worth the subscription they're begging for.

    I'd rather pay $1 for a day of access, or 30c to view a single article I'm genuinely interested in.

    11 votes

  2. Comment on Hayao Miyazaki’s final film to be known as ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ sets North America release in ~movies

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    I was referring to his 'this is my last film!' announcement, not the film itself.

    I was referring to his 'this is my last film!' announcement, not the film itself.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Hayao Miyazaki’s final film to be known as ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ sets North America release in ~movies

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    I feel like he does it every time Ghibli releases a film that's considered a stinker in comparison to their catalogue. So, not really surprised he's doing this after the negative reception Earwig...

    I feel like he does it every time Ghibli releases a film that's considered a stinker in comparison to their catalogue. So, not really surprised he's doing this after the negative reception Earwig and the Witch received.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Are phones really listening to us at all times? in ~tech

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    The flaw with the idea that phones are listening to us all the time, as opposed to just scraping contextual data, is that there are enough people involved in data collection that it'd be...

    The flaw with the idea that phones are listening to us all the time, as opposed to just scraping contextual data, is that there are enough people involved in data collection that it'd be impossible to keep everyone quiet.

    There's people out there sharing Pentagon secrets just for clout on Discord, police and government officials are caught out accessing citizen data for frivolous reasons constantly, electronics details are leaked before announcements so often it's just considered to be normal, and finally just look at the important people asking questions at the TikTok and Facebook hearings.

    There's no way the kind of people who would benefit from constant listening could keep quiet about it.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Hayao Miyazaki’s final film to be known as ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ sets North America release in ~movies

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    How many times has he retired now?

    How many times has he retired now?

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system in ~tech

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    You make some pretty good points. It would be a lot of effort, you'd have to be quite dedicated, and the possibility of being found out is fairly high. Parts of your comment... ...helped me...

    You make some pretty good points. It would be a lot of effort, you'd have to be quite dedicated, and the possibility of being found out is fairly high.

    Parts of your comment...

    the timing wouldn't be the same as the original's and probably wouldn't have a chance to take off.

    Mods don't actually delete posts; they only get removed from the subreddit's feeds

    Overall, the approach would be too risky and inconsistent enough to viably milk the contributor program.

    ...helped me remember an incident from half a decade ago that involved a moderator devising a method to hit r/all:

    1. Hide the previous days' top post (he claims he did it only his own submissions, but that might have been a lie)
    2. Post new content,
    3. Not needing to compete with the previous day's top post got him to the top of his subreddit,
    4. Wait for the new post to snowball after hitting r/all,
    5. Restoring the previous day's top post.

    It seemed like it was pretty consistent. I could imagine that such a scheme could make someone quite a pretty penny due to only really relying on upvotes from the majority of casual Reddit users that will be none the wiser.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system in ~tech

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    This feels like it was devised by Gallowboob and other power users/mods. How does this work on a website where a moderator can see a popular post, copy it, and then delete the original?

    This feels like it was devised by Gallowboob and other power users/mods.

    How does this work on a website where a moderator can see a popular post, copy it, and then delete the original?

    15 votes

  8. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    I was hungry and honestly I think I'm gonna go buy some right now.

    I was hungry and honestly I think I'm gonna go buy some right now.

    3 votes