JohnEdwa

Youtube knows I have subscribed to 515 channels, I have liked 2364 videos and favourited 685. It already floods the recommended videos with others based on "Users who follow\ enjoy videos of ".
They for sure do not require my watch history to be able to recommend videos to me.

Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns “Model E” so he had to go with S3XY instead.

I purged my feed from over 150 subs I would spend the first and last few hours each day browsing and commenting from my bed to less than 20 I lurk every few days from my pc, almost all of which are gaming communities with no fediverse replacements.

Technically none, because I’m a weirdo who uses a belt pouch.
It goes on the right side though as the phone is small enough (Pixel 4a) that I can use it one handed with my dominant right.

That would depend if you think lolicon or hentai of canonically underage characters in general is CP or not.
Doesn’t matter in the case of Beehaw though because they defederate from any instance that allows pornographic NSFW content of any kind period - as do probably a majority of instances, at least until Lemmy creates better filtering systems.

Most bots actually would continue working, the free API allows for 100 requests a minute which for most is enough, and they have been manually adding exemptions for moderation bots that need more. The question is if the creators are willing to continue supporting them, for free, in the future. Plenty understandably do not.

Also currently being a moderator (of any subreddit) allows you to bypass both the the rate limit and NSFW sub ban - which itself seems to be a manual list of mostly porn subs, as most of the subs that are nsfw as a protest still work so it isn’t a blanket ban.

Three, as NSFW content is already almost universally defederated from by every instance.

Currently yes, but before they started federating they didn’t. That’s why Kbin has both Boost (retweet), and the Favourite (like) is the “upvote”, which end up here https://kbin.social/fav - and until very recently, those didn’t increase your reputation.

Kbin is (was) less like Reddit and more like Twitter with downvotes.

Ironically Kbin might be the place where people will follow the downvote reddiquette correctly, something that almost never happened in Reddit itself:

Please don’t downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don’t personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you’re downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

Not the post, but the comment. Lemmy doesn’t scroll down when you link to a comment for some reason.

Self removals are hard to sync between instances, so a message you posted and deleted can linger forever.
For example, a message I posted from sopuli.xyz to a pawb.social post and then deleted shows as being deleted on sopuli, but is still visible on pawb.

Mod removals are all publicly listed neatly right here on the mod-log: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment

Not kbin.social, but they have from a few of the smaller ones.

You would have gotten your answer by asking google that exact same question - yes.
But the way federation works is terrible for search engine optimization as it fragments the userbase to a million smaller sites - instead of whatever hundreds of thousands of overall lemmy users there is, Google will only see the few top ones as being anything relevant. For the kind of search where you add “Lemmy” at the end like you can with reddit, it is (currently) probably better to use “site:lemmy.world” as it is by far the largest one.

why sell the company instead of enshittifying your platform yourself?

Because it’s a lot easier to find someone who thinks they can do it than it is to actually successfully do it yourself - as we are currently seeing with how wonderfully incompetent Spez is with Reddit.
When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013 - only to sell it for $3 million in 2019 - was Tumblr bringing in millions and millions of profit? No. But Yahoo thought that they would be able to make it.
Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter, it hasn’t turned any profit either (and never will enough for him to get his moneys worth, but that’s just because Musk is an idiot).

But yeah, quite often it does feel like a scam. Or kinda like… gambling? You hope someone will pay a lot for your company, while they hope they can make it turn wildly profitable, both may or may not come true.

A houses value is not theoretical though. You own land and a roof to live under

But that doesn’t mean you can turn a profit from it, or even break even. If you want to do that you have to sell it to someone, and there are multiple reasons why you might not be able to - maybe you spent too much money renovating it and now nobody wants to pay that much. Maybe a bunch of new housing was built and the value crashed. Maybe Detroit happened and the location and land it sits in is literally worthless and nobody wants to live there. - until you actually find a buyer for it all houses have only a theoretical value, as do all companies.

If you buy a house with a loan and pay it back, you haven’t turned a profit either - but you do now own a house that has a theoretical value. That’s basically how these things work, investing everything on growing the company in the hopes that some day what they have built can start creating profit, or be sold to someone who thinks they can.

Other than the harmful “prank” type thing where you start with one title, gather comments and then edit it to make those comments mean something completely different, there is still the problem of creating an external link, getting the post to the top of hot/active/whatever and editing the URL to point somewhere malicious.
The counterpoint which usually is “you can already do that with short url services”, to which the answer is “That’s why they were all banned on Reddit”.

Especially as there is absolutely no indication on Kbin that the title has been edited anywhere, and on Lemmy it’s only that tiny pencil next to the post age.

Sadly probably not. The GDPR fine can be “up to €20 million, or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater” which would be around 26 million based on their 2022 revenue. The company has gathered over $1.3 billion in funding and was “valued” at around $10 billion quite recently.

And that’s only around what a year of API calls would have cost for Apollo so clearly by discontinuing the API they are going to save that amount back in no time!

Yup. I’m waiting for Reddit to come back with my GDPR data request (which has a time limit of 30 days, after which they can tell their excuses to extend it by another 30 days I believe), and assuming they have not reversed the API decision I’m ordering them to delete it all afterwards. And they even now have a handy list, the one they just gave me, of everything they have to purge - if they didn’t, it wouldn’t be on that list in the first place :)

This is the list of “official” moves, like how r/3dprinting started !3d_printing@forum.rhombik.com and instructed their users to go there. That isn’t to say there aren’t other 3d printing communities around, but that would be a different list like sub.rehab