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7 votes
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Reddit's /r/history closed down for 24 hours in protest against Reddit's lack of anti-racist policies
25 votes -
Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI
15 votes -
How lockdown is changing shopping for good
8 votes -
Exam anxiety: How remote test-proctoring is creeping students out
9 votes -
The anti-Amazon alliance
6 votes -
Amazon glitch stymies Whole Foods, fresh grocery deliveries
7 votes -
Why Amazon knows so much about you
18 votes -
People in Canada’s remote Arctic capital are obsessed with Amazon Prime
6 votes -
Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish
10 votes -
Amazon doesn’t report its warehouse injury rates — but we have an inside look
13 votes -
Behind the Smiles - Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed
8 votes -
Profile of a fake Amazon reviewer, who has received over $15,000 of products for free in exchange for posting five-star reviews
17 votes -
Holy shit, Contra said a thing! Well, guess I better singlehandedly solve BreadTube
10 votes -
Facebook's dating service is full of red flags
19 votes -
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
19 votes -
The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
11 votes -
Amazon has ceded control of its site to third-party sellers. The result: thousands of banned, unsafe or mislabeled products
14 votes -
What does Amazon's "Top Brand" badge actually mean?
7 votes -
The ‘Amazon of Africa’ faces a big challenge: No addresses
10 votes -
When having friends is more alluring than being right
14 votes -
Nine easy ways to create an avatar | No Sweat Tech
11 votes -
EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
8 votes -
The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
35 votes -
"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
25 votes -
Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
8 votes -
What are some of the smaller communities that you enjoy?
Heya! The question is rather straightforward. Even though I said smaller, size doesn't really matter for this - the focus is more on the community aspect rather than it being small. Here's my...
Heya!
The question is rather straightforward. Even though I said smaller, size doesn't really matter for this - the focus is more on the community aspect rather than it being small. Here's my non-exhaustive list (in no particular order):
- Tildes - This is unsurprising. It's definitely large for a "small" community, but it's managed to preserve it's culture very well, which is rather impressive. It's cozy and has high quality discussion.
- Various Discord servers and IRC channels. This one is harder to pinpoint, to be honest. As far as IRC channels/Discord servers goes, some of the more niche gaming ones are probably some of the nicest environments. IRC-wise, I really haven't managed to find any particularly active ones, outside of the ones for the next list member...
- tilde.town and probably the larger tildeverse. Not affiliated with Tildes, but generally just... a nice place to be. It's rather quiet a lot of the time, but their main IRC channel is, frankly, quite great. When it's active.
- A lot of Mastodon instances, although of course not all. The fediverse is generally a nice place to be, although politics on there is kind of mushy and one sided. Genuine interactions on there, however, are extremely common and sorting by the global timeline is quite nice (most of the time.)
- rateyourmusic is a nice community of those who are passionate about music. It's quite nice overall, though.
There's definitely a lot I've missed out, mainly because I probably don't know about them.
So, what are some of the smaller (or not) communities that you enjoy?
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Group chats are making the internet fun again
4 votes -
The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
6 votes -
How an Aquafresh parody Tumblr got swept up in a hate-speech purge
7 votes -
Buying from Amazon: Three steps to find what you need and avoid fake reviews | No Sweat Tech
7 votes -
Your very public Amazon shopping history is a window onto your soul
11 votes -
Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
22 votes -
Instagram adds in-app checkout as part of its big push into shopping
3 votes -
What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years.
7 votes -
Kurzgesagt's "Trust" video may have been a preemptive move to avoid criticism
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Tildeverse - association of like-minded tilde communities
So we have many communities and everyone gets free *nix shell access, you can ssh into the remote server (mostly ubuntu) and do whatever you want! I mostly go there to talk with other users. It is...
So we have many communities and everyone gets free *nix shell access, you can ssh into the remote server (mostly ubuntu) and do whatever you want! I mostly go there to talk with other users.
It is all old school, we use the command line and there is no gui that you can work with. You have to use the cli for everything you do (easy to learn).
You can -
- learn programming
- make webpages
- make new friends
- play games
- learn more about *nix
and much more.
See https://tildeverse.org to get started. (https://tilde.team/wiki/?page=other-tildes for more tilde servers)
I'll suggest you to join ctrl-c.club or tilde.town and then try other servers. You can make account everywhere ofc. I am ~cyaniventer on tildeverse, see ctrl-c.club/~cyaniventer
Edit: Not related to tildes.net
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Are certain message boards like Tildes, Reddit etc. social engineering?
The active development of Tildes and the feedback/discussions about features and mechanisms had me thinking. Is the conscious design and moderation of forums for public discourse a manner of...
The active development of Tildes and the feedback/discussions about features and mechanisms had me thinking. Is the conscious design and moderation of forums for public discourse a manner of social engineering?
I know the connotation of social engineering is usually negative, as in manipulating people for politics. But it's a double edged sword.
Most recently I was reading this feedback on removing usernames from link topics and while reading the comments I was thinking of how meta this all is. It's meta-meta-cognition in that we (well, by far the actual developers) are designing the space within which we execute our discourse and thinking. To paraphrase the above example: user identification can bias one's own impulse reaction to content, either to a beneficial or detrimental end, so how do we want this?
The moderation-influenced scenario is a bit more tricky because it can become too top-heavy, as in one prominent example many of us came from recently... But I think with a balance of direction from the overlords (jk, there is also public input as mentioned) and the chaos of natural public discourse, you could obtain an efficient environment for the exchange of ideas.
I'm not sure what my stimulating question would be for you all, so just tell me what you think.
33 votes -
Amazon announces "Project Zero", a program which will allow brands to directly remove counterfeit listings
11 votes -
RIP Culture War Thread - /r/slatestarcodex's regular thread for debating polarizing issues showed the difficulties and risks of hosting those conversations
39 votes -
Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
11 votes -
Microsoft Edge browser flags Daily Mail Online as untrustworthy
24 votes -
I tried to block Amazon from my life. It was impossible
13 votes -
Amazon unveiled Key for Garage—a system that allows Amazon drivers to unlock garage doors to make secure deliveries.
15 votes -
Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
10 votes -
Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
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Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
33 votes -
Tumblr's displaced porn bloggers test their new platforms
21 votes -
By ending default communities, Reddit increased disinformation
25 votes -
Card skimming malware removed from Infowars online store
16 votes