Many accessibility advocates are frustrated with Reddit.
  • Jamie ( Jamie@jamie.moe ) English
    42·
    3 years ago

    Man, seeing people putting in effort from r/transcribersofreddit always reminded me about how many good people are in the world. It’s a shame they won’t be able to keep going, and even more of a shame that Reddit doesn’t care about blind people using their platform.

    • xuxebiko ( xuxebiko@kbin.social ) 
      1·
      3 years ago

      Reddit doesn’t care about anybody. not about its user community and the free content they provided, nor the mods and the free labour they provided, nor u/spez who’ll be discarded when they’re done with him, nor the admin who’re playing villain’s bullyboys to the T.

        • adderaline ( ondoyant@beehaw.org ) 
          16·
          3 years ago

          imma push back against that just a little bit. the shape of ui elements, what sort of interactions a platform allows a person to make, are kinda arbitrary, and putting deliberate thought into how they are laid out is important. in real life social interactions, there is functionally no analogue for a like or dislike button. there are fully cogent arguments for not including “the power of users to be negative” that don’t rely on suppression of speech or whatever, because that power is kinda exclusive to online platforms to begin with, and can allow larger groups to suppress the visibility of people they don’t like. “being negative” in a social context is a tricky idea to pin down, and there are a lot of real life social contexts where “being negative” would be seen as anti-social.

          in any case, a downvote is sorta equivalent to shouting somebody down, or interrupting somebody who’s talking. depending on how its implemented, it might actually be a pretty potent tool as suppressing discussion. in certain contexts it might be useful, but any utility it provides is necessarily less than articulating why you disagree with somebody with a comment.

  • Briongloid ( briongloid@aussie.zone ) English
    32·
    3 years ago

    I know I’m angry with Reddit atm, but that is the first time I have seen a Reddit post embedded in an article like that, I just had a look at the embed options and they are very good. I assume that Reddit is trying to fill the hole that Twitter left when Elon had no idea why embedded tweets were good for traffic.

    It’s a shame that I strongly dislike too many of nuReddit features, it meant I missed the good ones using oldReddit.

    It would be a very long way away, but a lemmy embedded feature in the future would be cool, I especially liked how you could opt for dark mode.

  • Jimbo ( Jimbo@yiffit.net ) English
    27·
    3 years ago

    "We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.”

    Lmao

  • mrmanager ( mrmanager@lemmy.today ) English
    18·
    3 years ago

    People are so gullible. Only now do they see reddit for what they are.

    This is also why good poeple can’t understand how evil some people can be, and they think they must be misunderstood or it’s not their fault or something else.

  • quaddo ( quaddo@kbin.social ) 
    8·
    3 years ago

    Last year, CBS correspondent David Pogue commented on the sub’s “jerry-rigged” design before

    A shame that this keeps getting brought up. Yeah, some of the stuff was super-basic. But the absolutely key component, ie, the pressure vessel itself, was anything but jerry-rigged.

    That said, I’m really curious how the pressure vessel failed. My random guess is that the viewport glass (which may not have been glass at all) cracked and then ruptured. I know that one of the vessels that has been down to the Mariana Trench experienced glass cracking; that was definitely a sweaty palms moment for the crew.

    Also, given that the hatch had to be bolted shut from the outside, I’ve been wondering whether they need to be set to specific torque values each time. Meaning, what would happen if they were unevenly torqued down? My bet is you’d get uneven warping where the hatch mates to the vessel cylinder. Even if the warping is microscopic at sea level, the stress differential would get magnified at depth.

    It’s also got to be pretty rattling to folks like David Pogue who have already been passengers. I’ve heard David himself say he’s still trying to process it all. But there’s got to be an ample heaping dose of “holy shit, that could have been me if the dice had fallen differently”. It’s already started to bother me that he keeps getting pulled into interviews; the first one was fine, but to keep pressing him with “what are your thoughts/feelings”… I’d rather buy him a beer and talk about literally anything else, so he can have a breather.

    • Jo ( Jo@readit.buzz ) 
      5·
      3 years ago

      Your post has appeared in the wrong sub but the pressure vessel absolutely was jerry-rigged and the viewport wasn’t up to the job: A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.

      The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.” These are the huge pressure changes that the submersible would experience as it made its way and from the deep ocean floor. He noted that a previously tested scale model of the hull had “prevalent flaws.”
      …
      A day after filing his report, Lochridge was summoned to a meeting with Rush and company’s human resources, engineering and operations directors. There, the filing states, he was also informed that the manufacturer of the Titan’s forward viewport would only certify it to a depth of 1,300 meters due to OceanGate’s experimental design. The filing states that OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the Titan’s intended depth of 4,000 meters. The Titanic lies about 3,800 meters below the surface.

    • athos77 ( athos77@kbin.social ) 
      5·
      3 years ago

      Well, first off, you’re in the wrong thread. Your points are valid: the viewport glass was technically rated for the depth, but the viewport company said that they wouldn’t actually stand behind it because OceanGate was using a different hull. The viewport company suggested a different viewport but it was more expensive and OceanGate refused.

      The torque on the bolts wasn’t something that had occurred to me and is interesting.

      My theory is that the carbon fiber hull collapsed, due to the strain of pressure cycling. It’s something the whistleblower was concerned about, and apparently they accepted visibly flawed carbon fiber for the hull. You can read more here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired/