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What an absolute unit of a mount.

What follows are some of my ideas on what kind of frame of mind is required to successfully manage an online community. I believe that the more closely a team sticks to these principles, the easier they will find their job to be. Each bullet point could easily deserve a full discussion of what it implies and how to embody the ideal it sets forth, and perhaps I will deep-dive into some of them at a later date.

Ohhhh Reddit. Reddit, Reddit, Reddit. My brother in Christ, what are you doing? In its infinite pre-IPO wisdom, Reddit has decided to transition from free API usage for 3rd party apps to charging $12,000 USD per 50 million API requests with only 30 days notice to developers.

Unsurprisingly, this has angered just about everyone who relies on 3rd party apps and moderation tools for their normal use of the site. Representatives of Reddit swear up and down that killing 3rd party apps isn't the goal with their new monetization of the API, but the only comparable peer API price of this magnitude is the widely ridiculed Twitter API terms that the Musk-era site put in place a few scant months ago.

Creating a human-readable RNG seed generator has been an extremely interesting experience. It would be easy enough to just use a random 64-bit integer value for a whopping 2⁶⁴ (≈18.45 quintillion) possible seeds, but I just think there's something special and more imaginative about using language to represent seed values any time you intend to expose the seed system to players. However, coming up with something that even approaches that many meaningful arrangements of language components presents a bit of a challenge.

In my investigations on the state of Fediverse services, I happened across an interesting little individual ActivityPub server called Ktistec. I already run my own Mastodon instance for myself and some friends, but I couldn't resist setting it up to see if it might serve as a better home for long-form posts or any other kind of content I might want to document for myself.