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People that keep making this dumbass "engagement" claim have no goddamn idea what they're talking about. Nobody is falling for jack shit. The "engagement" of people going on to place to troll is miniscule. Like you said, half of us aren't looking at this on Reddit. It's being broadcast everywhere else and the tech outlets that an investor will see are reading about how much the user base fucking hates the product.

This is the correct perspective. As it turns out, a huge amount of people that believe Bill Gates is injecting 5G chips into people absolutely don't vote. If you recall, the first amendment nuts in the loser convoys and a bunch of the J6 defendants weren't even registered to vote and yet they screeched election interference. For an election they didn't even bother to vote in.

2020 was one of the highest blue voter turnouts in national history making record first time voters in their 30s and 40s.

So yes, it should be pointed out that everyday people turning out to vote against this brain rot is just as important whether or not magats and human vegetables are voting too.

I'd argue the opposite. People have been fed up with the mainstream platforms for a long time now. Now that we know how social media grew grassroots terrorism and that the platforms allowed it for ad clicks, I'd say it's a good time to pivot away from the traditional models of the last 15-20 years, move away from the Facebooks and Twitters, and try something new.

Professionally, I lead a team of digital artists and oversee digital marketing efforts for a government client. The chaos and burning out of Twitter and Reddit has been a great time for my team as we've finally been given the latitude to do new work and build new strategies instead of just doing the same bullshit over and over. I've started enjoying work again and my team has been energized because everyday there's something new to overcome. And because the social media ecosystem is so turbulent, it's actually removing the pressure from us because our client understands that we are operating in new territory. Essentially, we are being allowed to fail in the pursuit of innovation.

I'm pumped to be a part of this evolving shift. There's so much potential. Also, I'm selfishly enjoying watching these fucking assholes like Musk flail and burn through billions of dollars as a result of their hubris.

Agreed, and not only that but holy fuck we just broke up a week ago. I was in a relationship with that bitch for 12 years, I don't need my homies over here telling me it's time to forget about it lol

Yeah that was obvious horseshit. The county employee he was in conspiracy with took the entire shaft for that. I'm curious as to what Gaetz promised that dude not to flip, because his corroboration was needed to bring the Venmo receipts and some of that other shit out of circumstantial and into real shit.

Yep. That was the organization exodus for my last job. Without any warning or planning, a state government agency, demanded everyone come back first week June 2021 when not a single other state office was even considering it. It was way out of left field and threatened to completely fuck up many people's lives and there was a mass exodus. Staff left agency wide. I think it was somewhere around 300 employees of a several thousand. Which may not seem like that much, but when 300 people quit in one agency over the course of two weeks, it's extremely noticable lol. The leadership at the top got berated publicly by the governor and they had to reverse course to stop people from leaving. But hey, I got a promotion, a huge raise, and got to demand my telework schedule because I instantly became more important hahaha.

The next exodus was my specific division. The deputy director we all liked and the media relations manager we all liked were fired out of nowhere by the same agency leadership that fucked up in the telework debacle. They placed their own drones in the two spots and it absolutely decimated morale. Not to mention the stool pigeons they selected are two of the most incompetent people I've ever had the displeasure of working with. I took a high-paying job with a federal contractor and bounced. Four people left in the few months following. They hired new people, two of which left within three months. I still talk to the social media manager who's still there and she fills me in on all the bullshit they're continuing with. Out of a public affairs division of 14 people, there's only six still there that were there when I left last September.

It's honestly extremely humorous. I made a Twitter account in 2015 because it was a requirement for a emergency management crisis communications class I was taking for work. After the course ended I didn't log into it again until Musk bought Twitter. I knew it was going to be a hilarious dumpster fire and wanted to watch it melt down in real time. It hasn't disappointed. But this most recent thing about the rate limits is so hilariously dumb I figured I'd seen enough. Deleted the app off my phone yesterday.

As you point out, Twitter's death is going to mean a huge improvement to journalism. Someone on Lemmy mentioned yesterday how nice it is to not be on Reddit which had gotten to be like 80% Twitter screenshots. Twitter and Reddit diving like this at the same time is going to be a net positive.

Meh. Sure, she's gonna be able to leverage some of that stuff into a paycheck, but she squandered the influence of more powerful Republicans and generally acted like a spoiled child. Even MTG has more focus on the evil shit conservatives are doing and that's saying something.

Boebert isn't going to get near as many speaking invites and won't be able to charge anywhere near what other ejected Republicans can. Fucking Mike Flynn and the pillow man can charge more than boobert

I'm pretty sure her TV appearances are mostly going to be Newsmax and OAN.

And honestly, the only reason that CO repububs are being this open about ditching her is because everyone already knows her reelection bid is dead in the water. Dem Adam Frich lost by less than a thousand votes in the midterms and all projections anticipate him handily trouncing her in the next general. Its not because they actually care about her giving handies during Beetlejuice.

Same. And I don't like to admit it, but I was a "power user". When Bacon Reader went dark, I never went back. Like others have pointed out, Reddit was always going to "win" the protest, even with over 1800 subs still out. But the platform's frontpage quality is in the tank. Google doesn't want to list Reddit at the top of search results anymore. The corporate failure to retain money making accounts made national news. Huffman completely missed the investment boat, and although the site itself is still generating traffic, the raised interest rates and lack of ROI for the unpopular changes spells out nothing but a slow death rattle.

And, lmao, anyone that publicly announces they're following the "Musk Model" for social media platform leadership is clearly a fucking dipshit doomed to drive their site into the ground.

I shit you not, this is uncomfortably accurate. I was living it up, having finally tossed Reddit and also called it done with Twitter. Loving this space. Loving the vibe. And then all this Threads shit just becomes everything and I really do feel like this meme.

Love the Bluey advert. Disturbed it's beside galactic space dicks or whatever that is lol.

I've learned not to be so certain that these dipshits like Boebert will lose. However, she barely won of Frich in the last election. Like, pulled a win by less than a 1% margin. I'm willing to let myself be quite confident she's going to kick rocks in '24.

I read an article recently regarding the influx of younger, Dem voters moving into her district. Between that and her tumbling support, Frich has an excellent chance of giving her the boot.

This is extremely interesting. So many products that I've never heard of and many of them were actually around for 6-12 years before being axed or coming up on death soon. A lot of these I had heard of and even used occasionally over the years and I didn't realize were gone now.

What is really sad though, is a not insignificant amount of the people who should read this can't read above a sixth grade level and would need to spend an hour with a dictionary to comprehend it.

Insert King of the Hill "if those kids could read" meme here.

Are you fucking serious? Do you genuinely not know who Chaya Raichik is? Because if you're acting in good faith and actually aren't aware of the vile hatred and harassment orchestrated at her hands, you really need to drop her name in the old Google machine and do some reading.

Ya. That is a large part (not the only reason) of why Huffman gambled and lost on killing 3rd party apps. People using Apollo, or any other app that wasn't the trash official app, weren't getting ads at all or were giving their ad dollars to a third party. By killing third party apps, that forces anyone who actually wants to use Reddit to use the official suck ass app or the garbage desktop site which also had alt options that used the API. When users are funneled into only using official Reddit products, that means they're only consuming ads that Reddit makes a profit from.

I used Bacon Reader for almost ten years. It didn't have ads for half a decade and when ads did come, it was a non intrusive banner ad at the bottom. The Reddit app is riddled with obstructive ads. So is the website unless using an ad blocker. Reddit when used the way the admins want, is just one ass blast of shitty ads.

Totally agree. Mega threads are great, especially in smaller communities where posting the same question or article over and over clogs everything up. Even more relevant with a small community that suddenly found it's subject matter in the news and now every asshole is spam posting trying to farm engagement.

Has a lot to do with age demographics and the inability for Meta to allow a person to easily delete their page. Many if not most millennials have a Facebook page, but like myself, never use it and when asked if I have a Facebook, say no even though I technically have a one I don't log in to.

Anecdotally, most of the people I know over the age of 45 have a Facebook and use it regularly. I don't know very many zoomers, but the few sub-30 year olds I do know, never even made a Facebook account, but do use Instagram.

Exemplified by the fact that we have started having free states again like during the civil war. The Maryland governor has been very clear and direct that the state of Maryland will take in political and social refugees from Florida and Texas. Where transpeople are being forced to die or pretend not to exist in Florida, Maryland is codifying their right to be and live as who they are.

You can't blame lefties and progressives for wanting to escape to freedom when their other option is death or hiding.

Yep, airport for sure. I used to get sick everytime I flew. Not anymore and in hindsight it seems stupid that I never masked at the airport before. And doctor's office if it's my primary care or urgent care. Not much of a need for a mask at the dermatologist. Basically if I'm somewhere there's a fuck load of contagious people.

Recently though, the air quality has been so bad from the wild fires up north that I've worn a mask while out. I came home one day from coughing like crazy and my throat was sore. I thought I was getting sick until I put two and two together about the thick haze of wildfire smog. Masked up until the AQI went back down and saved myself some discomfort.

Twitter is no longer publicly traded. One of the first changes Musk made upon purchase was pulling it off the market. Ostensibly so he could ruin it faster.

Make it five. I nuked 12, 8, and 5 year old accounts. In all three I had comments that used to be linked in Google search results. I put up with a lot from Reddit admin over the years, but it just simply wasn't worth it anymore, and fuck them, they're not gonna reap the benefits from Google traffic on my old accounts. I scrubbed and deleted my Twitter account a couple days ago as well. I'm sick and tired of these rich, stupid clownshoes ruining everything. This fediverse stuff is legit. I'm genuinely invested in seeing decentralized social media succeed.

Sure, Reddit and Twitter aren't going to collapse because some power users killed their accounts, but Lemmy and Mastadon can grow and show that what they're doing works if myself and others are making an effort to participate.

Yep. OP is a mega douchenozzle but sorting by new does in fact show a lot of porn. I simply have anything marked as nsfw not show the thumbnail. Problem solved.

Look up whathowwhy on YouTube. He's a dude from the UK who puts stuff into epoxy. A few years a go he put a hotdog into a cube of epoxy and would do periodic video updates on the hotdog. One year I actually watched the New Years Eve livestream of the hotdog slowly spinning on a dias. He'd put a little party hat on it and the live chat was absolutely hilarious.

Really no idea why that timeline. In 2010 I got an email from whatever ISP I was using at the time politely asking me to stop torrenting music. They basically said, hey we see you're doing this, please stop or you can't have internet through us anymore. That is when I learned what vpns and tor browser's are for.

Seems absolutely bonkers that any corporation would be digging back that far for media pirates. Absolute waste of time.

Exactly. LinkedIn jobs is incredibly useful. I have also found it useful for helping friends and colleagues find new jobs or make career switches because of the connections I have. I only maintain work connections through LinkedIn as I don't use Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Absolutely, ignore the post feed. It's just capitalist boot fucking. A bunch of fucking losers with made up bullshit in their titles trying to be leadership influencers.

I sincerely vouch for the jobs function, though.

Right? Depending on the shape of the toilet I find it more frustrating when my balls touch the water or the tip touches the inside of the bowl.

Not shaming OP, but I have to assume maybe their penis is on the...short side and doesn't hang down at all. I'm not packing any excess length by any means, but In order for me to pee on the floor if I'm sitting down, my dick would have to be laying on the toilet seat.

Sure, but how else is Elmo going to keep Amazon and Google from suing him for nonpayment? Geez man, use your noodle.

People in the Reddit top decided that they would run places again off-schedule. Best guess is someone thought that it would be good marketing for the coming IPO to show that Reddit is still functional with lively communities.

Any idiot could have seen what would actually happen coming a mile away. The only people who participated in r/place before are people who are now completely anti-reddit at the most and royally pissed at the admins at the least.

Seriously! A regular shower for me takes around five minutes. With a face shave, it's still less than ten. Wtf else is there to do? Standing there staring at the wall?

Aha lol. Well, that clears that up. Guess I wasn't seeing things when it looked like My Little Pony was My Little Penis.

Honestly, you should check out Nelly's Nest. Some of the simultaneously most disturbing and inspiring comics on the internet.

Agreed. Sorting by top 6 1/2 hours works very well for me.

Wild, what sub? I said worse than that almost every day for years on reddit and never even caught a temp ban from an individual sub.

I'm curious as to where OP has seen people complaining that karma doesn't exist here. I've been here a couple days now and have seen nothing but support from other Reddit refugees with how Lemmy is organized. I guess it's anecdotal on my part, but I would assume that anyone leaving Reddit right now has been frustrated and fed up with most of not all the platform's features, including the karma system, for a long time, and that the lack of karma here is an enormous selling point.

Same. I'm just as much of a talky talkerson here as I was on Reddit. It does feel different here, because it's new and exciting....and its a functional platform lol. But I commented consistently every day on reddit for years. If I was taking a shit, blowing time somewhere, or waiting for something, I was there chatting it up. Overall nothing has changed for me in terms of participation frequency. I'm gonna fuck off here too.

Dumping Twitter, to start. We've been able to finally get our client to try some new things using IG reels and YT shorts. We've also been able to grab their ear about Reddit, Lemmy, and Mastodon. While they're not fully onboard yet with federated platforms, they're interested, which is a huge step. We've also been pitching more proactive content and getting more support on strategy shifts to have a more conversational back-and-forth with the client's audience. They used to prefer to get people off open comments and into private DMs. We have been pushing them to be more transparent and human with their direct engagement.

They're not. They're responding to your first idiotic comment with a rational one.

I don't think this article is really "pro reddit" tbh. The headline says Reddit won, but the copy adds context to that. Reddit was always going to outlast the protests. I can't imagine anyone was delusional enough to think otherwise. But like the article says, Huffman lost most of the other gambles in terms of post quality, public opinion, and there's still 1800+ subs of varying sizes dark.

Short term ad traffic is the win he needs on paper, but the press hasn't been favorable overall and user engagement is high if you consider edgy teenagers making the front page with nonsense because all the decent mods have quit as consistent engagement.

Agreed. There are many that are definitely generational. I think Office Space transcends well. When it came out I was probably 10, I didn't have an office job until I was in my late 20s. It was sort of funny when I saw it as an adult, but after working in a cube farm for the first time I saw it in an entirely new light. Rolling Kansas is a good one too. Just a weird-ass, slow paced comedy about some potheads looking for their parent's long lost pot farm and running into Rip Torn along the way lol