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sh.itjust.works would like a word
People like to think that they’ve made some far-reaching change with what little actually happened. The painful truth is: they didn’t. There wasn’t a big hit to the userbase, most people on Reddit already hated moderators and didn’t give a shit if they got removed, and overall people caved far too quickly (how many people folded instantly when their internet moderator position was threatened? (I say this as someone who was one of those moderators that flat out quit everything and nuked my account rather than continuing to toil for free for a corporation that hates me)).
The actually important thing that was accomplished by the protesting was platforms like Lemmy getting enough of a userbase boost to become stable - in the future, Lemmy and others may be able to act as viable alternatives to Reddit, because there’s already a community here (however small). Reddit will continue to enshittify, and people will continue to leave in small numbers that may escalate to big numbers if they commit a truly massive fuckup. The more heavy Reddit users (read: more invested, not necessarily more active) are small in number compared to the vast majority who lurk, don’t give a shit about any ongoing meta-drama, and don’t particularly care about any changes to the UI or browsing experience as long as they can still get an endless feed of memes.
Even if it hurts to realize this, it’s important to make sure people get this message beat into their skulls so that we aren’t stuck with a bunch of Redditors (derogatory) with over-inflated egos that think Reddit will bend over backward to appease them, then cave as soon as they receive literally any pushback from the corporation running the site.
Appears to no longer be free, so I’m gonna take this down for now. If it was an error and it becomes free again, feel free to repost!
the smell of heavily chlorinated water. i used to spend a heck of a lot of time at the pool when i was a kid, and where i live now there aren’t nearly as many pools, so it’s not something encountered often anymore.
behold, the infinite malignity of the stars!
Any PR statement that includes the words “we hear you” can be safely ignored
The only one I have found was !hades@lemmy.zip, but it isn’t very active.
paid for in blood
At least with Lemmy it plainly is a Reddit clone. That’s not an insult, it’s just a fact. It has upvotes/downvotes, posts sorted into discrete communities that are volunteer made and run, crossposting, similar sorting options, and if you go to your own profile on Lemmy it displays your date of join as a “cake day”. The similarities are both obvious and intentional.
I think Lemmy needs to add more unique features Reddit never had. The federation model is very novel and fundamentally different but also can be confusing. It needs more than just that to be different.
(I can’t comment on Kbin as much because I don’t use it.)
For the future, !outoftheloop@lemmy.world
ROCK AND STONE YOU BEAUTIFUL DWARF
I think stuff like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199
is what’s more provably worrying. Modlogs are public, and if I’m interpreting this information correctly, I think the devs are engaging in scummy practices.
Personally I’d love to be the subject of a philosophical problem so I’d say he’s probably pretty stoked
My standard advice to anyone new or returning - check out mastercomfig if you’re experiencing any performance issues or just want to squeeze out a bit better graphics from your setup. Thing’s a godsend.
Funny time to ask, a seasonal update just came out and the game apparently broke its peak playercount numbers.
If you are going to keep trying to avoid the actual point I’m making by conveniently refusing to read or acknowledge the post I’ve linked, then there’s nothing more to say.
…Dude, that literally links to a post on this instance.
https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199 <- this is the link.
I will buy the explanation that the game is too old to continue to support when they stop adding new microtransactions every six months or so