Spez says $19.99 fee “enhances community dialogue through monetary validation”

  • bpalmerau
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    6 hours ago

    Love the image. Can only imagine the prompts… “evil lizard men make stupid amounts of money selling utter shit.”?

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t think IsGlitch understands satire.

    If every comment is ‘I ate the onion!,’ that’s just lying. It’s making shit up in a way that people could easily believe it. Satire has to be more extreme than that. Failing to reach those extremes isn’t commentary on the state of things; it’s just bad writing.

    Once again unfucking their latest efforts, to demonstrate the problem:

    • Facing monopoly accusations, Meta threatens to take the internet and go home

    • Amazon introduces “dynamic ownership” for e-books, matching real-world theft and fire rates

    • Assassin’s Creed critics pretty sure there weren’t any women in history

    • Grok AI 30% more likely to explain answers when told user is female

    The Intel fab one is good, though; that’s stupid enough to have clear intent. And honestly that Grok thing might work in real life. Satire is hard. That’s no excuse.

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    17 hours ago

    I legit cannot tell if this is real or not… it sounds terrible but also something that Reddit would do and think is great.

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        17 hours ago

        They announced earlier this month that they’re considering paid subreddits. No idea where that’s at.

        But yeah, this satire only works precisely because they’ve specifically expressed their interest in further opportunities for paid subscriptions.

  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    The present moderation is not too far from this. A lot of the subreddits are just shells of what they used to be. Most posts are purged by some reddit algorithm moderation bot. You can check this yourself with r/usenet.