This account is being kept for the posterity, but it won’t see further activity past February.
If you want to contact me, I’m at /u/lvxferre@mander.xyz
Mods had power because they were united and reddit couldn’t replace all of them at once. Instead, they picked them off one by one.
My guess is that they decided that the little fictitious power that they had over their communities was worth dealing with an obnoxious administration, that outright belittles them as “landed gentry”. As such, they never actually planned any sort of migration out of Reddit, and instead rationalised their decision to stay there as “we’re thinking on the users”.
In a just world, this kind of comment would be grounds for a warrant to search your hard drive for illegal content. They’d probably bust a lot of creeps that way.
Omega_Haxors, you’re free to defend hexbear or any other instance as much as you want. However witch hunting is not to be tolerated, as per rules #1 and #4, and implying that someone must be a criminal (or a “creep”) for having a stupid take on hexbear and two governments is witch hunting. Don’t do this.
Further violations of the rules will not be tolerated, specially not if witch hunting is involved.
Friendly reminder for everyone here - not just the poster above - that the topic of this community is Reddit. There’s lots of leeway for off-topic, but this sort of discussion about instances and geopolitics is bound to create unnecessary conflict here.
kbin.social could be an option, and thankfully I have an account there. I’m not doing it by votes but by the overall “feel” of the community.
Note that I’m happy moderating a community about Reddit (even if myself don’t give a damn about it any more), as long as people retrieve some value from it, and I can do so from a good instance.
Thank you. I’ll consider it.
Do you have other accounts with more activity, specially in this community?
If I close down this comm, I’ll do it as you said - disable posting, but keep the content here. One of the roles of this comm was to document the downfall of Reddit, so it doesn’t make sense to delete it.
Without going too much into details: I strongly disagree with a few recent decisions of the instance admins, regarding another instance and a community within lemmy.ml, to the point that I feel uncomfortable moderating a community here. As such I’m asking the community here for a few options, on what you guys think that I should do with our comm - get new mods, migrate the comm, close it down, something else?
I wish that I could be more explicit on this, but talking about the issue in the open might lead to administrative actions, dunno.
Stating obvious shit like it was some hidden piece of wisdom? Inability to handle subtleties like “lying” vs. “saying an incorrect statement”? Voting system? People repeating the same shit over and over, without reading the others’ comments?
EDIT: I’m highlighting that this YT comment section shows a lot of things to hate in Reddit. In some aspects they’re behaving exactly like redditors; in some they’re actually doing it better, even if YT is a cesspool of idiocy.
But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work)
Swap “subscription” for “multiple small transactions” and you have the new gold system. So Reddit is already doing what you (and me, and everyone else) was predicting them to, we just didn’t know “how”.
It’ll likely fail hard though, at least in the long run. For similar reasons as Digg failed.
I feel like Greedy Pigboy and Reddit Inc. as a whole deserve to be punished, for all that “my precious data! No, it is not the users’, IT IS MINE! MY PRECIOUS!” fiasco. Enshittification will happen either way.
Persuasion itself goes from neutral to negative, depending on your moral standards. (They’re partially individual, partially cultural.) Because at the end of the day it boils down to “I want you to believe in this, because I benefit from your belief.”
And you definitively see some backslash against this aspect of advertisement; same deal with personal communication, a person being excessively rhetoric for their own benefit is immediately labelled distrustful.
Then over that propaganda adds further layers of nastiness, like:
[Speaking as a user] Yeah, it looks inorganic for me too. As another user said the gold trim signals that the post was gilded, gilding nowadays works like a “mega-upvote” and gives it that trim. It’s possible that defenders of the Jewish genocide (Holocaust) and of the Palestinian genocide (the ongoing war) are dumping money in those posts, to promote their shitty discourses.
And that works really well in Reddit because the userbase there loves some oversimplification: they have a really hard time decoupling the Jewish people from the State of Israel.
[Speaking as a mod] Given the topic I’ll be monitoring this thread carefully. As such, if anyone here is eager to either promote fascism (rule #1) or witch hunt (to point fingers towards other users based on assumptions or faulty reasoning - rule #1, rule #4): don’t. Also remember that the topic of this community is Reddit, there’s a lot of leeway for non-divisive off-topic but please don’t go overboard.
And if anyone here has concerns that some other user is doing either thing, please use the report button, OK?
Soap and water do wonders for 90% of the restroom cleaning.
The problem is that the other 10% are important too.
Yup, that’s the stuff. It’s mostly a finishing touch, to get rid of bacteria.
At the very least, I’d recommend you:
Everyone has the cleaning agents that they swear upon, so look for something that works for you. For me it’s
Important detail: do not mix any two of the cleaning agents that I’ve mentioned. Specially not ammonium and bleach.
For reference, the disinfecting agent that I use is called “pinho sol”, but I have no idea if it’s sold outside Brazil. You probably have some similar product wherever you live.
Thank you! It’s working now.
It’s giving me an error, “Error Finding Entity // Make sure you spelled the entity correctly and that it exists!”, when I use my username for lemmy.ml; curiously it works well when I do it for my beehaw.org account.
Perhaps “we” (users in general) could be a bit more strategic with this. Reddit admins have a noticeable disdain for the smaller subs there, and yet they are [were?] what shaped Reddit the most, and made it fun. They are bound to have some grievances with Reddit; and even if the Fediverse is rather small, here they’d have some room for growth that they wouldn’t with the competition of larger subs.