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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • The banking system in the US is a legacy mess. Transfers still take business days to go through and making your bank account # and routing information available is actually a security concern, honestly I don’t even know why that’s still a thing.

    Products like PayPal and Plaid try to provide something that is slightly more usable, but with this underlying obsolescence their functionality is very limited.

    When paying for services, credit cards are still the way to do it. For P2P payments, people use PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and others. Nothing even close to a unified system like Pix in Brazil.

















  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    toMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldAh, reddit
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, I’m sure they’re able to get older snapshots with the data, so my motivation was never to prevent training - which I couldn’t care less tbh - but it was exactly to diminish Reddit’s perceived value.

    Before the controversy, the platform was even more useful than Google to me, and I think this puts the whole community in a bad situation. They chose profit over openness, and like other social networks, started gatekeeping the content we generated. It won’t surprise me if the platform, like many before, starts requiring signing in to read content in the near future.

    If I could just dump the content I created, in context, somewhere open and not controlled by Reddit, I would have done it instead of deleting it. The internet archive, search engine indexers, and other private crawlers have a lot of this “deleted” data, so I think worrying about AI training is a waste of time after the data is made public.


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    3 months ago

    I don’t think it was petty, Reddit as a platform made clear that they don’t respect their user base and don’t deserve control over the data built by and for the community. Reddit is nothing without its users and data, leaving the platform and deleting posted content after what they did sends a clear and proportional message imo.