NaibofTabr

Typically yes, hourly wage earners get holiday pay for working on holidays:

§ 532.507 Pay for holiday work.

(a) An employee who is entitled to holiday premium pay and who performs work on a holiday which is not overtime work shall be paid the employee’s rate of basic pay plus premium pay at a rate equal to the rate of basic pay.

(b) An employee shall be paid for overtime work performed on a holiday at the same rate as for overtime on other workdays.

© An employee who is entitled to holiday premium pay and who is required to report for work on a holiday shall be paid at least two hours of holiday pay whether or not work is actually performed.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-5/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-532/subpart-E/section-532.507

Most hourly wage earners are entitled to holiday premium pay. Salaried workers are typically not.

Add it to the pile.

Wet, or old dry and musty?

I just want to have control of my data!

Google:

Oh absolutely, I think that is already happening, but it hasn’t reached broad public awareness yet. Reddit has 20 years of momentum, it won’t stop all at once.

I suspect the company is aware that user engagement is dropping, along with the quality of new content. Typical of most corporations, their response is to play defensive, to try to maximize the value of what they already have, to scratch and claw and squeeze every drop from the existing data and userbase. This will accelerate the decline, obviously, but when a company is in this state they consider any strategy besides protectionism to be too high a risk.

They will ruin themselves with cowardice, to be sure, but they’re still coasting on momentum for the moment. They will continue making the same types of decisions, at an accelerating pace, as the desperation sets in.

Not like reddit is relevant these days.

Even within the lemmy user community people still occasionally refer to reddit because there isn’t a better source for some things. Outside of lemmy, reddit is a household name alongside facebook, snapchat &etc; people who don’t use it still know what it is. I think your conclusion is more aspirational than currently real.

Volume, and breadth of subject material. For language model purposes the specific content isn’t really important, it’s the wide variety of language samples from many sources, all in the same data format. You could get similar samples from other platforms, but you’d have to compile them from multiple sources and then standardize them somehow for input as training data.

All of their business decisions for the past few years have been centered around monetizing Reddit content as training data for machine learning models. Most likely this recent decision is an attempt to block data scraping.

AWS East feels left out.

Look, it’s hard to tell if a girl’s into you, OK?

If winning means not getting charged with sexual harassment, it’s a good strategy.

Who needs case fans when you can have fancase?

Is that thing licensed?

I mean… OK, but like I’m cutting back on all the online spaces operated by Meta, so… if people are staying on those, yeah, I guess we’re gonna be out of touch.

Living their best life, apparently.

Congratulations, you’ve just reinvented the Electoral College!

They’re making a comparison with the weird cultish hero worship around Trump.

“Hey I’ve been turned into a cow… can I go home?”