Feeling the lack of moderation now Reddit?

Exactly, I didn't have a tantrum. I used a third party app because of the accessibility features it offered that the official app doesn't. I can't use reddit now, so I don't use reddit.

So now they are pushing the narrative eight months later that people left in a tantrum?

The fact they still talk about that over there says a lot.

You didn't, but lots did. They're still using reddit to this day.

I thought blocking nsfw posts on mobile was bad enough until I tried viewing a totally SFW subreddit that was small enough to not be "verified". Straight up didn't let me view a subreddit that wasn't essentially approved without logging in or using the app.

Me too, I did most of my redditing on the phone. So the only redditing I do these days is when on desktop looking for various hardware recommendations, cause unfortunately I don't know how to search lemmy that well

No, the people that didn't leave yet kept whining are the whiners.

They won I guess, enjoy.

By 90% you mean 90% of the 15 people that saw the post and were using a client that could see and vote in the poll in the 8 minutes that they had it open, because that's seemingly what most subs I was on that did a poll did. The comments were always 90% filled with people saying they wanted the subs to be open, they don't care about the API changes, etc, yet the crybaby mods would say "YOU ALL VOTED FOR THIS!" while everyone is screaming "No we didn't, we weren't even asked!".

People on reddit genuinely don't know because the L word gets the ban hammer there

I’m a motherfuckin user. I log onto this website sometimes. That means I dictate when you shit and for how long. Just be glad your breathing is out of my control. For now.

People have gotten fucking insane with this "Everybody should do exactly what I think they should do at all times full stop and if they don't they're literal fucking garbage, and if you disagree or care about a different thing than me you're just a whiny baby whining about baby stuff" mentality.

I'm a lefty, and it's an election year which means I get to deal with this for 10 months straight from the dems.

adjusts monocle

That’s no way to speak to us landed gentry, you filthy casual.

They are my mods. I may insult them as i please. If others do so, they die!

I never fully understand that, is that an insult? English ain't my first language and I was honestly not sure if I felt offended by that lol, I swear I looked for it on the web, but it wasn't clear for me either.

I used to be a mod at /r/soccer, and it was a great way for you to lose faith in humanity.

We saw it all, racism, death threats, insults, even an instance where one user found a mod's place of work and stalked them. We also had one guy that was obsessed with a footballer spam the sub with bots for several days, because he wasn't allowed to post whatever he liked. It took the admin's three days to fix...

More often than not, it was people that didn't read the rules, and got upset that all subs didn't run on the idea that "if people upvote it, it's allowed".

RIP Inbox :P

The r/piracy wiki died when I stopped updating it which is a shame, I used to recommend it to everyone. Now I pass them onto FMHY or awesome.

How could you?! As a Karen I demand the r/piracy manager and that he forces you to go back and work for free!

I got banned this week from r/aboringdystopia for "spreading misinformation" by sharing a france24 link (credible established newspaper) debunking thegrayzone (whatever that is).

Screenshot

Here is the url I was trying to share.

I always laughed when someone called us a "janitor" after we banned them. Like you understand in this analogy you are the trash being taken out, right?

"They do it for free!"

Not anymore, fucko. Have fun selling your ungovernable site.

I mean, even a lot of the bigger lemmy instances are of mixed thought on whether to federate with "piracy" instances (I want to say lemmy.world federated and defederated a couple times?).

Reddit Corporate is trying to go public. The piracy subs were going to be purged sooner than later and The Exodus was an opportunity to move the community en masse.

If I had to guess ;)

Seems about right

Oh I didn't even think of the auto content that could be generated with the API

You have probably already seen this:

https://xkcd.com/705/

Anyway, people are mostly not like that anymore.

Not "job", these are "volunteering contributions", that are not only time consuming, mentally consuming, and unpaid as well.

Yeah, I don't see anyone adopting "mags" or "zines" either.

Hopefully it costs them dearly. Kinda like the whole Tumblr censorship fiasco and drastic fall in value but before they sell it. Put #FuckSpez in the poor house

You're right, they aren't trying to make something sustainable. I guess I was giving them too much credit when I said that.

The problem they're facing here is that if they can't sustain even the appearance of a functioning site that investors might want to buy, then they fail at that too.

So maybe the best way to fix this is just to ride it out and not close the subs, but if they're just full of users that have finally clocked why mods are needed and that the place sucks now, that's also a bad look.

If the search engines start to realise that it's a cesspit with nothing worth linking to anymore, then that really hits their metrics. I've just realised I really need to get onto downloading my posts and deleting them.

They don’t care about making the site good or attracting a healthy community.

They never cared about the "healthy" part either, just "big". Reddit has been a cesspool for years and years and years, largely thanks to the moderators.

"Any recommendations for good cummies here?"

"I usually start my day just laying in bed and checking out new cummies"

"It's unfortunate that niche cummies don't always have the support needed to stick around. I've seen great cummies wiped away before they could really build any volume up."

"It's so often overlooked, but proper handling of cummies is really what keeps them enjoyable day after day."

Yep, I see no fault with the naming scheme here. Really rolls off the tongue well too. Very palatable. Definitely not absolutely cursed.

What the fuck

Yeah subs and the mods are the doms, which works for my dyslexic, kinky ass.

Given the automotive slang term for "transmission", I think this one has a chance

I can't decide if I hate that or love it.

A short name for communities would be groups. I like to call the users fedizens, as it is not specific to one software.

I mostly call them "cees", ex "The linux cee on .ml"

...and "lemmings" which some users like to call lemmy users but I don't agree with that either and "lemmy users" sounds like a better term to use

This is just how communities work: people will find names for things and other people are reproducing them if they like the term.

I guess "subs" isn't exactly a reddit specific term. I don't even know if it started there tbh.

I've just realised there's nothing wrong with taking some of the language they used, we are after all following the basic link aggregator format.

I like communities and sublemmies.

Coms/commus sounds forced and unnecessary, doubt it’ll catch on.

As for Lemmies, I think that should be a synonym for instances/servers. So, for example, the biggest Lemmy with the most sublemmies would be lemmy.world.

And of course, the users are lemmings.

@Obi /c/s is not long (albeit a bit complicated to write, on phone at least) and it could easily be expanded verbally, so you know that /c/s = communities.

On Friendica, everything that is not a person or a page is displayed as a group. As a Facebook alternative, it does make sense, but for you in the Lemmy world I imagine it would sound a bit bland. 😁

@Excrubulent

The term, "enshitification" is getting bandied about a lot. But the bots and corporations are an inevitable part of capitalism. Make money at all costs, never be satisfied with what you have, and treat everybody that isn't you like a stepping stone.

Scammers and sociopathic c-levels are missing something fundamentally human. A complete lack of empathy. But this has always been a part of our species. The difference now is that we have a system that dramatically rewards that sickness. And that's not even getting into how being able to be evil at scale is going to make the next few decades interesting.

The best way to fight it is to simply be unmarketable as a community. This is how Verizon ended up having to sell Tumblr for less than 1% of the price they paid for it like only 3 years later. If the cost outweighs the benefit, fewer people will bother trying.

I feel like you could make your own instance at that time.

Dead internet theory

Wait, what ransomware files lol.

Probably better than at&t in the middle of the city.

Their spell check sucks too. "I'm the capstan now!"

You could pick them up from Twitter if you weren't a bunch of reddit brained tweaking crackers

There was that hot Somali who was Tik Tokking himself while boarding a cargo ship.

But he was enforcing a blockade enacted by his government within Yemeni territorial waters so unfortunately it wasn’t piracy.

Got cancelled though, so don’t expect much growth

That, and the smaller communities that are here tend to be split between multiple instances.

I don't use Reddit as much as I used to since the API change. I also don't use Lemmy much either. It feels different since that moment to me. Both feel quite divisive and don't get me wrong, Reddit was divisive before the change but it feels like it's got a lot worse.

Thank goodness people on reddit aren't self righteous lol

/r/snackexchange/ - I made it a protest subreddit by embracing Spez's call for user democracy. Every day every single thing about the subreddit would be reset and users would have to vote for every aspect. The only rules were that you couldn't abolish democracy and you couldn't abolish me as the caretaker. /u/Icxcnika was a weird little goober who took it seriously instead of seeing it as a protest meant to derail the subreddit. He voted to make himself mod for a day and then the admins did a mod coup to make him the head, even over the other two mods that had been there for a decade and built all of the third-party tools we relied on to make the subreddit work. He had only posted once, some 8 or 9 years before, and had never moderated. The users and other mods fucking hated him and activity in the subreddit fell off. Now he no longer posts, one of the other mods no longer posts, and the last remaining one is apparently now a bot that sells funko pops.

/r/fifthworldproblems/ - The other mods and I were all on board with the protest. They forced us back open so we refused to do anything. Now it's restricted and the only link posted since the protest was a Lemmy instance that I didn't have anything to do with.

/r/modernart - I started rebuilding this one after it was overtaken by spam from people who don't know what "modern art" actually means. I want to keep the subreddit because there's good radicalisation potential with it in the right hands, but I stopped posting and only remove the most obnoxious spam days after it's reported to tank the quality of the subreddit. I'll be replacing everything with a Lemmy instance link at some point but was always holding out for Hexbear to open up community creation.

I had a few others that I just left or let the admin bot take over.

I understood it perfectly well. Did you don’t read it?

Why am I seeing this sort of 5000x too-large-embedded thing not on a HexBear account? On Lemmy.world of all instances?

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Oddly it wouldn't seem entirely like that since when it shut down they basically forced it to reopen.

completely right i overlooked that rather important detail. chain/mass emailing all mods at once without really thinking it through maybe?

Who cares about mods tbh

If i couldn't use infinity, i couldn't use reddit

Not quite correct. They didn't start charging for API usage. They banned it and pretended it could be paid for with completely absurd prices nobody could reasonably afford.

A key thing about the API is that moderating gets harder when the apps that moderators use to streamline/facilitate their work suddenly stopped working. Those apps relied on the Reddit API. These were created by and for the moderator community out of necessity.

Moderators had asked Reddit for tools and when Reddit didn’t provide they built their own. Then Reddit switched off the API without offering replacement tools.

That’s likely the primary reason that Reddit’s mods left and its content took a nosedive.