This is great, but what I’m really struck by is the Fox News homepage’s top story is about the autopsy of Obama’s chef? I didn’t realize how out of touch I am with right wing media. I assume there is some conspiracy that Obama had his chef killed for “reasons”? Or maybe this is some vaccine conspiracy? Can you imagine what your brain would be like if this was your main source of news?
I just checked as I’m writing this out of curiosity. Top story on CNN is Prigozhin being killed. Top story on Fox News is “Hunter Biden went on foreign trips.” No wonder so many people’s brains are rotten.
It’s a bit abstract, but yes your still generating revenue for Reddit, just not directly. Commenting provides content and engagement for other users who are directly monetized. Basically, your helping encourage people to stay on reddit, and their eyeballs to stay on ads. Even without commenting, just going to reddit provides them traffic, and that traffic is understood to be actual and potential monetization (there’s a lot of lazy chrome users who’s ad blockers are about to go away but won’t be bothered to switch to Firefox), which will inevitably be shown to investors during the IPO process. Just your traffic is helping to boost the IPO price.
All that said, your just one user in a sea of millions. Does just you engaging with Reddit (or not) effect their bottom line? Not at all. But there’s probably hundreds of thousands of people just like you asking the same questions and having the same dilemma. If all of you just stopped using Reddit, yes that would have an impact. It’s like climate change, if you drive to work that’s not going to cause the climate to collapse, but if you and hundreds of thousands or millions started taking public transit, that would definitely have an impact. So do you drive to work or take the bus? Do you wait for everyone else to start taking the bus and your city to improve the transit infrastructure first? Or do you just decide for yourself that you’ll make the first move and hope others follow.
I’m in no position to tell you what to do. I’m kind of over reddit anyway, being on Lemmy/kbin since the blackout made me realize how toxic reddit is, and anytime I happen upon a thread someone shares with me now I cringe at the vitriol and self-righteousness in the comments. So you do what makes sense for you. But yeah, your helping them if you go there and especially if you engage by commenting. But whatever, do with that information what you want.
On the Lawfare podcast, Ben Whittes, who has been very critical of Trump for years, seemed perplexed by DOJs position that the case isn’t complex given the number of classified documents and there being separate charges for each document. They noted that when asked the Justice Department couldn’t identify a similar case that went to trial in under a year, but here DOJ is asking for trial in less than six months.
Cannon is a hack who has already been rebuked by a conservative appeals court. Her reputation is in the shitter. It will be interesting to see what she does here, try to revive her reputation in the legal community somewhat, or continue to be a partisan hack. I don’t think it would be surprising or even unreasonable if she sets trial sometime in the spring of 2024. If she wants to be a complete hack she’ll set it for after the 2024 election in November, giving Trump the opportunity to quash it by pardon or his control over the Justice Department if he wins.
Even if she sets a reasonable trial date, I’m sure she will have plenty of other opportunities to decide motions on a partisan political basis. Will she be an outright hack like she was when she appointed a special master? Or will she softly tip the scales in Trumps direction while preserving some plausible deniability as reputational cover? Those are the only two realistic scenarios going forward.
Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.
Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).
Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.
Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.
Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.
Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.
Running various bots, including automatic > flairing of live posts “Moving forward, we’ll be allowing most AMA topics, leaving proof and requests for verification up to the community, and limiting ourselves to removing rule-breaking material alone,” the moderators added. “This doesn’t mean we’re allowing fake AMAs explicitly, but it does mean you’ll need to pay more attention.”
It’s wild that Reddit basically had a volunteer PR department. Good for them for essentially shutting that shit down.
Dark Brandon haunts the Fox News website on GOP debate day ( www.theverge.com )
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Reddit refugee with a question
Hello all,...
Do you need something? ( pixelfed.social )
Judge appears inclined to delay Trump classified documents trial into 2024 ( www.theguardian.com )
Judge Aileen Cannon said she would issue a ruling later after appearing skeptical of arguments from both sides...
Reddit invites mods to “feedback” conversations with the admins ( www.theverge.com )
Maybe Reddit should’ve done that part first?
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so ( www.theverge.com )
“It does mean you’ll need to pay more attention.”