If I did a single thing this douchebag has done, I’d be in jail. Yet he’s the front runner for president for a political party. Blows my mind.
I cannot wait to not hear his name or voice again.
He is. He’s your average internet troll that made a few lucky decisions in the past.
And don’t call me Shirley.
His best decision to date, yes.
Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 0 points – According to the website, it’s been completely drawn and is done.
Either Lemmy is late to the game or ai knocked it out before we could contribute.
It is and has been a mainstream site for a while now. It’s followed the same trajectory as Facebook. The typical user only cares about the topics that interest them. They have zero interest in what’s happening in the background and are fully accustomed to being blasted in the face with ads 24/7.
Progress is forward, not backward.
These people have to deal with the public. People suck, so burnout happens pretty quickly.
Most people don’t want to do that job so your criteria for acceptance is relatively low. See post office or other public-facing gov work.
Edit: Huge shoutout to the woman at the DMV the last time I had to go who was the nicest person I’ve ever interacted with in any situatiin as a customer, not just at the DMV.
The only thing I want to read about her is that she’s decided to exit politics and live a private life. Thats it.
I’ve never heard the term sealioning. Is it really a thing?
I don’t think it is, but if you have any evidence to prove it, I’m listening.
Good writeup, but a few things I’m taking away from it.
I’ll say it again, fuck RedditCorp.
A recurring theme I’m seeing in these articles is the framing of it as a RedditCorp vs mods issue. I was just a user. Yes, the mods got screwed hard here, but so did any casual user who relied on well-designed apps to allow them to access and participate in the discussions they cared about without being clotheslined by an ad every 5 seconds. This is as insulting to the users as it is anyone else.
It’s been mentioned by a few others but why did they choose Discord? This article points out the flaws with it, all of which would be resolved by migrating to Lemmy/Fediverse. I’m not a user of Discord or Reddit, so I’m not tuned in to their reasoning.
Related, another article that gives no mention to the incredible growth that’s happening over here. Maybe that’s for the best, but a little exposure couldn’t hurt. I know all of my niche equivalents over here are silent.
Shoutout to Guy in the article, most of the things he said are 100% spot on for members of any passionate community. I hope more people who continue to use that one outdated site read this article and finally ask themselves, “Why the fuck am I still sticking around this place?”
Yes! You made it over here!
This makes me happy.
I believe this is the correct and uncontroversial explanation.
Not sure how well this would work for Hawaiian cities, but San Francisco utilizes a network of cisterns in intersections that are ready to go if needed.
Old tech, but I’ve always found it a pretty brilliant idea.
This picture is an absolute classic. Back in the day, that girl was depicted kicking every possible thing imaginable and then some.
Agree completely. It just makes it all sound much more complicated than it is in practice. I’m used to the fediverse now and my eyes glazed over reading all that.
Another issue I have with the article is that he doesn’t even touch on third-party apps, which are abundant and pretty damn robust considering how new they are. The fact that much of Reddit’s self immolation was directly due to their treatment of third-party apps. At least worth a paragraph in my opinion.
Otherwise, nice write up.
I’ve yet to see an instance owner/admin behave in such a way to deserve such a gesture. It’s nice.
I guess I beat reddit then.
Exactly. It was dramatized and way more entertaining than reality but the premise was based on very realistic scenarios.
I don’t particularly care about Bezos or his love life but you’re right, that’s some stellar writing.
Plenty of friendly faces round these parts. Perhaps not quite as prolific though.
Today is a good day.
Never saw it and have no plans to.
Doesn’t even seem like it was that long ago that I’d be sitting at my desktop, 5+ tabs open. One might be Fark, Stumbleupon, Digg, etc for general shits and giggles, maybe some news. The others were the independent forums I visited every day for my interests where I actually got to meet and befriend some people, regardless of location.
The anonymity of Reddit (which I was cool with) definitely was a shift in what “community” actually meant online.
That works too.
Tidal has been doing that for a while. The hi-fi option is/was double the price of the standard.
Their lighting app is a steaming pile of shit as well.
That’s a big one. Good for them but I do hope they find their way to a federated instance eventually.
Well, with many of the site’s top contributors having left, much of the more informative content can then be written by Reddit’s own AI. Throw in a few bot upvotes for visibility and watch the tips come in from the remaining people who don’t have a clue what’s going on.
I could see that bringing in revenue. That’s money straight from the users into Reddit’s pocket.
I feel the same way and made a post about it yesterday that got hammered with downvotes.
So is it a bollard in front of painted asphalt? Textures are interesting.
We did it Reddit!
/s
Meh, never seen it so less inclined, but I still like the idea. Thanks for the heads up.
It’s like twitter but without the bullshit. I’ve never used twitter so not interested in Mastodon, but I’m glad it’s out there.
Really. The linked thread has so much, “If you don’t do these x things, we’re going to be really upset.”
Come on. Cut the fucking cord.
It’s happening, I love it.
I wonder if the people who either linger out of hope or don’t realize what is going on have been around the internet long enough to have seen this happen before.
Many of us have seen this happen over and over and over. There’s nothing surprising about it. Yes, your go-to favorite website will fail you.
Decentralization helps, but I can’t imagine shit won’t hit the fan at some point in the future.
Anchovies.
I’m in the same boat, but rather than just going back to Reddit for those communities, I’ve opted to lose those communities, conversations and information entirely. I will not support their platform.
And I resent Reddit for that in a major way. Fuck them.
Word.
The average person doesn’t seek shit out. They wait until it’s fed to them and then may occasionally decide to participate out of fomo.
What really surprised me is that some of the communities I enjoyed pretty much universally carried on as if nothing happened. Maybe I’m weird, but I can’t support the bullshit they pulled. Thankful for the alternative and hope to see it flourish.
Wildly disagree.
You’ll have to pry my deep minimal organic afrotech from my cold dead hands.
13 or 14 years here. I didn’t delete my account but I don’t even want to give them the traffic from going back to see my join date.