ThePowerOfGeek

I was looking into something similar recently, and asked around on Lemmy. The general consensus I heard was that a Mini PC weren’t ideal, mostly I think due to the fact that they aren’t designed purely for streaming.

One think someone said piqued my interest, and I might try this. They recommended buying a cheap, Android TV compatible streaming box (like an Onn brand one), and side-loading an open source (and ad-free) launcher onto it.

I found this thread over on the Huffman Shitshow that had some good instructions.

I don’t have a direct answer to your question. But I advise caution in putting your creative works online in the way you are planning. Between people plagiarizing it (either word for word or just the broader concepts) and AIs doing similar things, you could find that your work gets stolen.

Self-publishing might at least give you a bit of inherent copyright protection. Then at least you will have an ISBN associated to it, and you can always host your stories somewhere (WordPress, Medium, etc.).

If you want to self-publish your stories a free service like Smash Words would work.

Ooh shit, this is a good take! Tiktok needs to change ownership to an American company. I could see them using Reddit as a kind of masquerade it or shell company, where they put all the legal and geographical ownership under the Reddit name, but really all the decisions (for both platforms) are being made by the TikTok owners.

This sounds like my old place, but much worse.

We used to have laptops we had to lock in a cabinet (yeah, one of those cabinets with a really puny lock that’s easy to pick). And we had to log into n old mainframe system that had numerous environment instances which each required a unique password that had to be changed every 90 days.

We (the software devs) basically rebelled on the laptop situation and insisted they find a better solution. Thankfully they changed policy and of allowed the laptops to be locked into our docking stations, which in turn were locked to our desks.

As for the mainframe system credential management, I tried using a standard third party password manager, but a) it wasn’t a good fit for the credentials, and b) the sys admins or security team forcibly uninstalled it because it wasn’t sanctioned software (even though it was a well-respected and actively maintained one). And our security group refused to go out and find one.

So being a dev, I wrote my own desktop password manager for the mainframe credentials. It was decently secure, but nowhere near as secure as a retail password manager. But it fit the quirks of the mainframe credentials requirements. And after my colleagues and manager did a code review of it, it was considered internal software, and thus fit for use.

As I was leaving they were in the process of removing all our local admin rights (without a clear path on how to accommodate for us developers debugging code - fun times ahead!).

But all of those annoyances pale in comparison to the shit you are having to deal with! Holy hell, that sounds like pure misery! I’m sorry.

From what I recall of the email, I’d need to share some PII with reddit (or at least share it with someone who could then pass it on to reddit). That’s a hard no from me.

That said, I might throw a little bit of money into trying to short their stock via my existing brokerage account. Partly because I’m sure their stock price will drop like a stone. Partly just for the lols. Andy partly because fuck reddit.

Good point.

Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s

Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant’s reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.

From my experience reddit has gotten waaaaay more toxic over the last few years. And that toxicity was only increasing. I had fairly carefully curated my subscriptions there too, so it wasn’t like I was signed up to only shitty subs.

Fuck, not even real life janitors are treated this way. They are (usually) paid real money for doing a job. Reddit mods are scolded and patronized by their overlords and paid in nothing but insults and stupid, worthless badges.

So glad I ditched that shitty site/system. It used to be wonderful. But then the admins, in their infinite wisdom, decided to destroy their own creation inbox pursuit of the almighty dollar.

When they have to reward people for doing the right thing that tells you there is something profoundly wrong. And only doing it with stupid little badges is just pathetic.

Post it behind a paywalled API and charge reddit $1000 per 10 API calls. Because fuck em.

Indeed. All things come to an end, and it’s often a slow painful end. I think reddit is reaching that point. Will it close down in a year or two? Maybe not. It will likely linger on for many more years. But it won’t be the same, and the quality and traffic will go down until it’s a shadow of it’s former self.

The interesting thing with social media platforms is that the way they declined is still not predictable. Aside from the fact that they are (in there grand scheme of things) still pretty new, there are several variations of them. And their evolution can be improved by many factors.

I think we all know about the ‘facebookification’ of sites that your your user profile to your real life identity and then let you find real life contacts and post casual opinions. They draw in the younger generation, who are active and contribute a lot (not necessarily good content, but content nonetheless). Then older generations get pulled in via them, tensions and credibility concerns arise, content quality goes down, and the younger generation move on to the next platform. That just leaves a more passive user base that posted less engaging content and less often.

But more anonymous (liked reddit) platforms seem to fade a bit differently. Maybe in a more straightforward way. The same general principle applies, I guess: content withers away and then users drift away. So the platform just gets replaced when the next thing shows up. This happened with reddit replacing slashdot.

I get a strong feeling reddit is about to get replaced. Not sure by what yet (Fediverse or Threads or something else), but I can’t see reddit reversing course not that they’ve pissed off a critical mass of them people who kept their platform running smoothly.

Maybe their leadership is in a mad scramble to get that IPO done ASAP because they all saw the writing on the wall, and have for a little while now. And they want to cash out while they can. They know social media platforms have an expiration date, and even before the API and mod fiasco, they knew they were approaching it.

I’d be very surprised if the admins DON’T have a Richard Nixonesque “enemies list” that they check before letting new mods join the team. that level of control-freakishness and pettiness is right up their alley.

Edit: missed a word.

Perfect!

“My first action is to reinstate all the old mods. My section action is to resign. Bye!”

I’ll bring the scarecrow depiction of spez. Let’s make it a bonfire.

u/ModCodeOfConduct: “Congratulations, soldier! You’ve been promoted to moderator of r/suicidewatch!”

Recipient: “…But I’m just a 13 year old with depression and anxiety myself! And my account is only 8 days old!”

u/ModCodeOfConduct: “Report for duty right now, slacker! The mod queue is filled up, and you have a job to do!”