The whole point of Wordpress is so you can host your own site and not have to have your web site held hostage by one of the oligarch-controlled cloud providers!

No thanks. Good Bye!

100%

Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.

Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.

As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.

Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.

Kevin and his idiot people killed Digg a long time ago when they implemented their own algo to determine what users could see and corrupted it with a bunch of advertising. It should have been left alone. Nobody cares and nobody wants it back.

Which can basically undermine everything else at any point in the future.

... maybe they shouldn't be having AI do coding? Or QA?

The thing that gets me is that anybody who has any technical knowledge, upon looking at crypto's underlying technology: blockchain, can clearly see it doesn't make sense.

Blockchain isn't any less fault tolerant than existing systems, and because of its precarious "decentralized" nature, requiring random self-interested parties to see a financial reason to run nodes based on the price of the tokens, there's no guarantee whatsoever: a) the "price" of a digital abstraction that has no intrinsic value will continue to go up or say above zero, or b) there's any other reason to run the software and waste resources when it accomplishes nothing for society.

Here is a great documentary that explains it all. No self-respecting software engineer would buy into this goofy scheme.

If you want "immutability" just use cryptographic signing in traditional, relational databases.

If you want "decentralization" there are better facilities out there that aren't tied to sketchy ponzi-scheme-like digital tokens, such as IFPS.

Only second to the quality of answers... most of which being, "Why would you do THAT?"

From the ebay auction

Yea, right... You claim someone can easily make $150k+/year renting this out but couldn't even find a starting bidder at $50k.

Real "used car salesman" vibes here...

A long time ago...

Seriously the site with the most potential so poorly run that those in power imposed zero tolerance for anybody trying to solve a problem different than the way they would solve a problem and would nuke your karma to the point where you couldn't participate if you disagreed with them.

Sums up in two sentences, the general intellectual capacity of a Stack Overflow admin.

Seriously, I've never encountered such a toxic "help environment" as Stack Overflow. If you search for solutions you'd get 10 year old answers that no longer apply. If you ask a new question, their admins admonish you because the question was asked already (10 years ago).

Maybe the idea should be to tell a compelling story. Once you got that down, you can be as diverse and inclusive as you like, people will watch it. Not because it's diverse or inclusive but because it has a compelling story.

Take Star Trek. TOS. That was a revolutionary show back in the days. A black female officer at the height of the civil movement and a Russian navigation officer only a few years after the whole McCarthy era. And let's not forget the first interracial kiss in a nationally broadcast TV show.

And guess what, it was a success. It still is. Mostly because it actually had an interesting story to tell.

Even Goebbels knew that you can slip any and all sorts of propaganda into your programming, but first and foremost, people have to WANT to watch your show. They'll easily accept all the propaganda you want to add, but first you MUST entertain them!

Too bad, you could actually have learned something.

Oh well, some people just prefer to pretend they already know everything.

"Ok, folks, we're losing subscribers. Why did people sign up with us in the first place?"
"Well, mostly because they were fed up with cable TV and we offered an alternative that only only let them choose what they wanted to see but was also heaps cheaper."
"Great. So what could we do to be more like cable TV?"
"We could throw in some programs nobody asked for and up the price."
"Perfect, let's do that!"

Neither does anyone else currently subscribed to Netflix, but how else could you justify yet another price hike so soon after the last one if you don't throw in another shovel of garbage?