I just visited reddit for the first time in a week and it feels gross 😝
I’ve gone there a couple of times in the last few days to try to hunt down an invilte to tildes.net and it also feels like i’m doing something bad.
Message /u/Doug from an account that isn’t brand new and ask if he has any more invites. That’s who I got mine from.
Thanks for the tip and I sent a PM!
Anybody else starting to suspect that spez might have committed a teeny tiny bit of investor fraud?
F U/Spez.
Does this dude even use reddit? The proper response on reddit to users not agreeing with mods is to start their own sub to fill the void. That’s what happened with r/animetitties. But guess what - no one is doing that because we all don’t want to see these changes. Sorry to vent more about this loser, but c’mon man.
This week’s rebellion is a response to part of Reddit’s plan to succeed as a business
Not a hint of bias in this article, is there?
Hahha right “the rebellion!”
When a tree dies, it dies slowly. The heart of it rots, and then the roots stop growing, and only much later do the branches stop growing new green leaves. By the time the whole trunk falls over, there’ve been raccoons burrowing into the rotten heartwood for years.
With this analogy Lemmy could be the sapling that one day will grow into a large tree!
I wanted to be the raccoon.
Then be the racoon. Drive up the cost. Upload hour-long videos of white noise or pictures of John Oliver beeing sexy. I think I am going to create a couple of throwaway accounts just to show how unprofitable reddit can be ;)
I respect that, but I’m more interested in raccoons personally
I love the irony of him calling Reddit a democracy while also refusing to budge on the API issue. You can’t have it both ways.
As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits’ content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It’ll keep on existing, but here’s hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there’s valid alternatives now.
I went back there for like 3 minutes today and found myself getting angry at some stupid argument that didn’t matter to me really but still got to me. I don’t need that, I got enough irl. Lemmy et al. ain’t perfect, but at least it’s not that shithole.
if you get people to argue, you can pump users engagement statistics. same with conspiracy theories, and neither makes place that does this worth visiting (like facebook does)
Did anybody else lose the ability to report? I guess that’s why I got a week ban for “report abuse” even though the linked report was agreed with and actioned by Reddit, they’re starting to take down anyone flagging the Christoterroism shit since Spez has allied up with Musk.
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So part of the issue with this “democracy” idea and making it easier to vote out mods is that Huffman has literally been found guilty of changing comments.
That, along with the fact that we can’t trust reddit to not chime in with false accounts to swing the vote make me dubious that it would work.
I’ll start believing in Reddit’s commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don’t like their decisions.
Until then, it’s just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.
It’s like when you let kids vote on what to do for the school faire.
Not only will the teacher and school change the result if they don’t like the winning suggestion, you also can’t vote to do nothing or protest the event
It’s just a way to give you the illusion of autonomy to boost engagement. It’s only a choice between the decisions they find (more or less) equally acceptable
After seeing what r/pics and r/gifs are doing I doubt voting would work out in his favor anyway. A surprising about of the user base is behind the protest.
It’s just a matter of migrating them to a new platform. Lemmy has a small learning curve, but unfortunately it’s enough to turn off a lot of users. Hopefully with the influx of users, someone smarter than me can figure out how to streamline the user experience here.
I don’t get the learning curve. I’ve been on it for 15 minutes. So far it looks exactly like Reddit. And seems more user friendly.
Yeah, except when you want to do anything with other instances.
We’re on one of the biggest instances, so you can still have a nice feed before you learn how to work with instances.
This is true.
Browser extensions help a bit, but just not on iOS.
Is anyone else really entertained at this point by watching this pompus asshat’s arrogance single-handledly dismantling the pretty solid reputation Reddit has as a social media platform? It’s like I blink and he thinks “hmm, how can I say something worse to show everyone how strong and powerful I am?”
I mean if Reddit’s going to go down, may as well go down in the most spectacular self-emulation possible. Solid alternatives are already formed and off to the races. Go off my guy.
I won’t lie, I’m kind of annoyed by the fact that the most active posts here are talking about reddit. Even so, here I am contributing to the “problem”
A lot of mods already opened back up. Reddit wont have to do nothin the way things are going
In the smallish sub I mod (~300k subs) the mods are discussing what to do. One will step down regardless of what happens. One is trying to migrate us to Lemmy, and the others have not made up their minds. From the outside it still looks like it’s business as usual though.
Silence doesn’t necessarily mean acceptance
Gee, I feel so slammed right now, you don’t even know.
I don’t. I’m not a Reddit user (anymore).
