Chomsky would say that the original purpose of language is to structure thought, with communication being solely secondary. (Or something like this, I don't recall it word-by-word.)

If that's correct, then internal monologues are simply a result of your brain processing your thoughts.

How I'm reading those news: "as astroturfing in Twitter becomes unviable, online pulp magazines turn to Reddit. They're clueless on how to navigate the place and, once they learn how to do it, Reddit Inc. will spoil their fun by finding some way to squeeze them dry, and because Reddit is undergoing the same process as Twitter that makes you uneasy to associate your brand with that place."

“We had some organic success on Reddit. So we were like, we should start being more intentional,” said Brady Stone

"We found some grassroots there. We should replace it with astroturfing ASAP."

God forbid anybody sees something they don’t like on the Internet. Ignore, block, mute and roll on.

OP is asking if the political spectrum on Reddit shifted. OP is not asking "please tell me what you expect me to do".

Also note that the concerns against certain discourses on the internet aren't just a matter of "I don't like this".

OP, please, when sharing this sort of long video, try to contextualise it to the topic of the comm. A few words go a long way.

That said what an amazing find. Most of the things that Cory explains in this video are the things that he already explained through text. Even then, it's great to hear him talking, even if he goes on 10min parentheses.

I think that the most relevant parts are, up to ~25:00, in my own words:

• The four steps of enshittification - 1) platform is nice for the users, 2) platform backstabs users to be nice for businesses, 3) platform backstabs businesses to hoard the value for itself, 4) platform dies
• The three criteria that ensure enshittification: 1) mono/oligopoly, 2) ability to change the rules for the users and work around legislations regarding labour, privacy, or fair trading laws, 3) ability to change the laws to outlaw users and other companies fighting back.

Later on he'll talk about how to bring a "good internet" up, without enshittification, but I'm still watching the video.

In the context of Reddit the whole thing sounds a lot like "we tried to play the enshittification game like the adults, but we're just a bunch of little greedy pigboys". Reddit is trying to go to the second step of enshittification, but it is not in a good position to be nice for businesses - why would you advertise in a site that is leaking users and that is clearly becoming unmanageable? It was able to backstab the users, and that's it.

Likely Discord, playing games, outside... a few perhaps to oldschool forums.

Hard to say. Like, do "Ivan", "Giovanni" and "John" count as the same, or different names? What about Latin "Amanda" (to be loved) vs. Japanese 愛/Ai (love)? How do we even count this?

I don't usually get excited with games to be released, but I'm mildly excited with this one. Stardew Valley is clearly a work of love, ConcernedApe consistently showed that he cares about the players, and Haunted Chocolatier will likely show all the experience that he got from creating SV.

I just wish that people bugged him a bit less dammit. As somnuz said, let him cook.

I don't think that this should be a surprise for anyone. Not even Musk himself - I'm led to believe that he knew what he was doing, and the consequences, it's just that he simply doesn't care.

It’s like your local picnic spot or doggy park that you’ve been going to for years all of a sudden started charging an entry fee. That alienates consumers.

That's a great analogy, specially if the hypothetical doggy park (or picnic spot) had multiple kiosks selling stuff - so the park owners already had some profit. As soon as the fee pops up, the owners do get a bit more short-term profit... but then people stop visiting the park, and that reduces the associated profit from both the fee and the kiosks, making the park even less profitable in the long run. And the alienated customers might not come back, even if the park owners realise the mistake and get rid of the fee.

Time will tell if the middle majority will follow in time.

My bet is that they'll leave. Not due to the alienation, but because the content there will become trash. They'll simply disengage, and their disengagement will snowball into more disengagement.

Normalise Roman style tunics. The whole thing is just a rectangle with a slit (for the neck) and sewing (for the sides), with two optional sleeves, and fastened to the waist with a belt, it doesn't get simpler than that.

Also undyed clothes becoming a thing. What's wrong with raw colours?

Oh look, another social/collaborative site leaving its userbase pissed.

The Fandom wiki, while no longer having its existing editors, will continue to remain up without any indication that it's moved, competing with and likely outranking the new wiki in Google search results due to Fandom's high SEO.

Small but periodic destructive changes to articles already ported should solve this. The changes should be small enough to not look like vandalism, but remove meaningful info off the wiki.

Meta (the corporation behind Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram) created a new platform called Threads. It's basically a Twitter with Zuckenberg instead of Elon Musk. And Meta said that it wants to use the ActivityPub protocol in Threads.

ActivityPub is the protocol used by Mastodon instances to talk with each other. For example, you can post from mastodon.social and someone in social.vivaldi.net can read it and reply, or vice versa. So as soon as Threads uses the ActivityPub protocol, those Mastodon instances will be able to talk with Threads and vice versa.

That sounds good, right? Well... no. Meta, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, they're that sort of nasty business that doesn't play by the rules. Odds are that Meta is trying to use a shitty strategy called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish towards Mastodon. For example, here's what Meta could do:

• enable ActivityPub protocol in Threads. Mastodon users access Threads content and vice versa. Use this to kickstart Threads' userbase and seed its initial content.
• make a few divergent changes in Threads, that give Mastodon users a harder time accessing content in Threads than the opposite. So Mastodon users are encouraged to create Threads accounts.
• when there are considerably more people using Threads than Mastodon, Meta "pulls off the plug" of ActivityPub, denying Mastodon users the Threads content that they were able to access. Now Mastodon becomes a ghost town, because most of its users and content are in Threads.

I'm using Mastodon as example but note that this also affects Lemmy, since it also uses the same protocol - it's how I can see and reply to your post, even if you're form lemmy.world and I'm from lemmy.ml. So, once Threads implements the ActivityPub, you'll see Threads leaking into Lemmy too. And in the rest of the Fediverse.

And now all that "facebook stuff" discussion going on is about ways to prevent Meta from ruining Mastodon and potentially the rest of the Fediverse.