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I was surprised that r/godot didn't turn into a discussion devoted to Samuel Beckett.

Here's one way to realize why Reddit should not be taken seriously: Suppose that the head moderator position for r/politics was put up for open auction. How much would it sell for? It would be purchased by someone who was interested in controlling what information people see.

Subreddits are moderated on a first-come first-serve basis. If you were the first one to squat a name 10 years ago, you get to be the head moderator, even if someone else might do a better job. This is the "landed gentry" comment Reddit's CEO was referring to.

Those charities have huge overhead. Very little money goes to the actual cause.

I solved this problem once. What you do is have a custom captcha that you code yourself. It can be as simple as "What is 2+3?" and have 10-20 questions that you rotate between. Most spammers will be too lazy to update their spambot.

That isn't the way the Internet works. If the 220k lemmy users were the most active out of the 800m, then reddit is basically dead.

There's nobody to sue. The CEO is dead. Oceangate is a bankrupt company with no assets.

Yeah, it's nice. I've had it 2 years now. It's sturdy, hasn't broken yet. I'm not feeling the need to upgrade yet. If I was buying new, I'd get something newer. I was considering a GPD Win Mini, but $1000 is a lot and GPD has so many QA issues,

You create your own community. If the mods are jerks, you can convince people to switch.

I used a custom captcha for my personal WordPress blog. It eliminated all the spam. (Fun fact: The spammers know how to work around most anti-spam WordPress plugins. If you roll your own, they aren't going to update their spambot for one blog.)

I also used a custom captcha at work. We couldn't use 3rd party filters because it was marking our customers' comments as spam! The custom captcha also eliminated all the spam.

There's also a problem with using 3rd party spam services. You have to give them all your data. You also usually have to pay for it, which can be a problem when you're working for people with a tiny budget.

There are more potentially interesting websites than I have time to spend. I'm taking the same attitude to Reddit that I take for StackOverflow and Wikipedia. I'll read their content, especially if it comes up in search, but I'm not wading through the cesspool to try and contribute anything.

No, they're already dead. Most likely the sub cracked under the water pressure, instakilling them. Or they froze to death. Or they ran out of air; they have oxygen but no CO2 scrubber.

With lemmy, if someone is squatting a bunch of forums and moderating them, you can always start your own lemmy instance and start your own forum with the same title.

Exactly. Switching from Reddit to Discord is just switching from a website controlled by one evil corporation to one controlled by a different evil corporation. Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren't going to be screwing over users yet. Reddit is in "cash out our chips" mode, so screwing over users for profit is the way to do it. In 2-3 years, the investors in Discord will start wanting to see revenue. That's when they'll start introducing user-hostile features.

Getting a sitewide link permaban is the highest honor that Reddit can give to a website.

Jimbo Wales from Wikipedia said "It takes 5 users to keep a website active". For the foreign-language Wikipedia clones, the ones that had at least 5 users did well. The ones that didn't have 5 users just died.

Is there a way to find out a site's blocklist?

Every handheld made in the past few years plays GB/GBC/GBA at 100%.

I have an RG351MP.

It can't last. Right now, lemmy/ActivityPub is in the "early adopter" stage of the tech hype cycle. The only people here now are the people who are willing to try out something new. If there are enough "early adopters", Lemmy will become interesting, and then the normal people will follow. This would lead to an "eternal September" effect of declining quality. Then they're followed by the spammers and people looking to make a profit.

If basically feels like reinventing Usenet, with maybe some extra modern features.

There's one big weakness. There appears to be some sort of shared blocklist. If people wind up being placed on the list for petty reasons rather than genuine misbehavior, that could become a problem. I.e., the people maintaining the blocklist decide they disagree with X politically, and then X winds up on the blocklist even though they really weren't abusive. Then people running nodes are going to have to start manually reviewing the blocklist and making exceptions, which most people won't bother doing.

Simplest is Retroarch or Daijisho.

If you really want to get fancy, consider getting one of the cheap handhelds with build-in game controllers, like an Anbernic RG353 or Retroid Pocket.

Someone would just start their own lemmy instance if the mods are unreasonable.

No. It just leads to people gaming the system. I also think that counting upvotes but not downvotes is also a good idea, when ranking which posts show first. Too many people use downvote for "I disagree", which means a true idea with less than 50% popularity gets buried.

Lemmy is turning into a left-wing echo chamber. The mods have declared that right-leaning opinions are not welcome and are defederating from any right-leaning instances. If you declare that half the population is not welcome, you're really limiting your reach. It's also going to be a pain to have two logins, one for lemmy.world and one for the free speech instances.

Maybe the problem is that your definition of fascism is "anyone who disagrees with me"?