• Swordgeek
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    There’s still one protest possible.

    LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!

    Same with twitter.

      • @[email protected]
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        Twitter and Reddit went so much to shit and lowered the bar so much that Meta actually became almost not bad in my eyes, almost.

          • @[email protected]
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            I’m still pissed off that I’ve never had a facebook. I never gave them any info about me. I gave them no reason to have a profile on me.

            Yet because OTHER people have facebook, they know my name, my address, my phone number. I don’t know if they can identify me in pictures that other people post, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

            That shouldn’t be allowed. I did not consent.

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              Correct. And the same is true for the mobile phones, carriers, and a slew of apps that all look at contacts. They know who you are and who your friends and family are.

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          There’s a guy in the world of pro wrestling named Jim Cornette that said a quote this reminds me of.

          Cornette is known for holding grudges, and being hateful. He keeps a shitlist of people he hates.

          Well in the 1980s he was working for a wrestling company, and hated one of his coworkers for a year. Then a new guy came in and was so much worse.

          Then one day he says to the first guy “You know, you used to be at the top of my shit list, but with all these new fuckheads coming in, you managed to move down a few spots simply by not doing anything!”

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          53 months ago

          They’re doing a Bradbury, in a way, kind of like Tumblr and Steam. Everyone else is shooting themselves in the foot.

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          I think Meta is doing a decent job with Instagram. I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform. And the only one still allowing for engagement with your actual friends rather than exclusively professional content creators.

          • Aniki 🌱🌿
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            WTF are you on about? no one likes instagram shorts and the feed is a jumbled mess of bullshit and advertisements. I deleted mine a long time ago and don’t regret it for a second.

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              no one likes instagram shorts

              it’s “reels” i think tiktok recommends better videos, but IG has closed the gap in recent years.

          • @[email protected]
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            I really don’t understand how people use Instagram. I’ve tried, but it’s about 45% ads, 10-15% posts by people I don’t follow, it’s not in chronological order (or any sense of order for that matter), and regardless of whether I was on there yesterday or 2 months ago, it’ll show me about 40 posts before saying “You’re all caught up from the past 3 days!” and then refuse to show me any more.

            I guess this is why I’m here on Lemmy and went crawling back to Tumblr, one of the last vestiges of the old internet. At this point, I’d rather watch a platform die than become marketable to advertisers and shareholders.

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              Yes the random feed filled with ads unrelated post suggestions and limited to three days is the main issue. i use an Instagram mod but they didn’t manage yet to replace the main feed with the friend only feed you can get by clicking on the Instagram button

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            I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform.

            It’s not. Instagram is popular the way it is because “It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests” there.

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                …OK, well I guess we wait until the wrong person is in charge of that division. Also I’m old because that feels like yesterday…fuck.

      • Tony Bark
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        Meta is a little hard because they acquired a lot of existing social networks in their prime and have kept things subtle. Think about how long it took EA to finally strip Maxis of everything but The Sims. The only way you would know something is owned by Meta is from the splash screen.

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        The problem is that FB is the “core forum” for tons of niche hobbies. Irts the only reason I still have a account. They successfully killed off the old php forums.

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          If you live in rural America sone information is only posted to Facebook, from private businesses to small county or town governments

          • NebLem
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            Additionally FB Marketplace killed Craigslist, at least in my area (also US). Nextdoor somewhat is a counter but that has its own problems.

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        Meta probably is the hardest one given that in many influencal countries WhatsApp is the app everyone uses for communication

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        Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they’re used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.

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          Affordable purely by the money you pay upfront. They earn more by the ridiculous amount of tracking they do, and they’re also forcing you to stay within their services.

          As with so many other things, you’re paying with more than just money.

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            they’re also pushing the technology and pressuring other manufacturers to adopt and be competitive

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      Like what the hell are they even protesting about now? What is left to protest about? And why? Just go.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      I left Reddit 6 months ago when I was permabanned for asking a question about what is forbidden. They can kiss my ass. And I hope they go broke.

      • lazynooblet
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        Aw man. I left Reddit on my own terms as soon as the writing was on the wall re: 3rd party apps.

        To have access ripped away without notice must have bred some deep hatred for the platform.

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          33 months ago

          I left Twitter for much the same reasons. All the replies are basically unusable now, because bots just pay to get put at the top of the sorting algorithm, and it’s now full of bait and spam, since the website formerly known as Twitter now pays for engagement, since that apparently worked out well for Quora (!).

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      I genuinely tried to leave but lots of communities didn’t leave Reddit and therefore had to stick to Reddit. I did with RRSS-feed and avoided their app.

      Recently figured out we can Sideload Apollo app with almost all functions available. So did that.

      Thankfully never used twitter! I read valuation dropped from 44B to 9,4B recently.

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          I’m not the right person to start a community, that’s the main problem. I’m not fit to be a Moderator and such.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s super easy, the main problem is no one will move. I still moderate a couple on reddit, but it was hard enough getting people even there, certainly no one will come here.

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              I feel like internet users have become so lazy, stubborn, and resistant to change. I’m pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo, IRC, ICQ, AIM… people used to try new things

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                Companies have done this on purpose. They all want you to stay in their walled garden, their “ecosystem” of various products. So they make it easy to get into and get connected to people and things, and then make it hard to leave because you’re “invested.”

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                I’m pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo

                In some respects it was somewhat easier to get them to be on multiple platforms instead of moving. Think of the original messenger proliferation, where sometimes people would be on IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, or etc. so much so that you had software like Pidgin and Trillian to help consolidate server/chat rooms and friends lists to more easily chat with all your contacts.

                Even with Ventrilo, I remember being open to also switching to Mumble or vice versa if there was some hiccup with either.

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                Eh, not everyone is fit to be a moderator.

                I don’t feel I have the time (this issue is made worse by my timezone not aligning up with the most active hours for communities), nor do I have the maturity and level-headedness to be a fair and impartial moderator.

                E: oops replying 3 days later. I’m surprised this thread is still in my feed…

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                There have always been people like that, it’s just more noticeable now because the numbers are larger.

                People still use MySpace and Digg, and there are people on Bluesky, Mastodon, here, etc.

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                  It’s in its afterlife phase right now. Much of the comment sections on any given subreddit are full of newbies using colloquialisms from other platforms. e.g. Users call subreddits “groups” which I think originates from Facebook. Or users trying to “bump” posts. There’s a lot of signs that the core userbases are gone.

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      The hold outs for these sites are so fucking dumb. They act like social media is somehow an important part of their existence when just 10, 20 years ago it was an emerging technology. These early iterations of social media are toxic as fuck. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They don’t deserve your patronage and are taking your goodwill and turning it into social decay.

      10-20 years and you people can’t give it up for something better. There is no argument. You don’t owe them loyalty. They aren’t innovating. They have contributed to the rise of authoritarianism.

      Yeesh.

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      If you’re still posting on Reddit or Twitter, and it’s not for a niche community, please don’t come here.

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      No, because then they’ll all flood here. Then I’ll have to consult with 9,006 different rules between each sub, while subsequently making sure I’m bending to each power-mods weird and unwritten agenda.

      No I’m good with reddit. I encourage reddit. And I encourage all the weirdos to use reddit!

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        Nope.

        If you encourage it, it will continue to fester and rot, and the entire internet will lower their expectations.

        We need to destroy these companies. We need to smash them to pieces, and hey guess what - it’s going to hurt a bit! We need to be prepared to stand up against evil, corrupt, racist, bigoted robber barons. We need to make some sacrifices to fix the internet.

        Burn the fuckers to the ground, and let spez rot in a hole.

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          I think you have misconstrued what I’m saying here. I hope reddit exists to collect the weirdos, and be a breeding ground for the gross shit it is, and keep it away from here. We don’t need to inherit the 2024 users of reddit, no one wants them. Let them echo in their bot chambers until they literally spin into the ground. Keep Lemmy normal.

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            I get what you’re saying, but it never works like that.

            You said it yourself: “I hope reddit exists to…be a breeding ground…” And it will. The worst of humanity will collect and fester and grow in numbers. And what’s going to happen then? Some will spill over to here, and other ‘safe’ communities.

            There’s no way we can thrive and simultaneously isolate ourselves from assholery; and by encouraging it to thrive elsewhere, we’re only expanding its power and reach; and at the same time, enriching and empowering asshole billionaires like spez, Zuck, Musk, etc.

            No, we need to fight them. We need to wade hip-deep in the shit to shovel it down the drain, rather than hoping it’ll just go away on its own.

            Look at it another way: If you have a garden, what happens if you designate one corner as “the weed corner?” It grows, spreads, and takes over the rest of the garden.

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              We can fight them, but ultimately these companies have the control. They can enrich and empower, and there’s probably not a lot we can ultimately do about it. When the chips fall, I’d rather they just stay on a sub and endlessly echo chamber themselves into oblivion. Some will come here, but it seems like most will stay there until something ultra stupid forces them here. And I mean at this point, even ultra stupid hasn’t, so yeah. If they have to collect somewhere, I’d personally rather it be there than here. I think that’s the main point I’m making.

  • GHiLA
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    …I’m gonna go ahead and say it.

    I like it better here.

    • @[email protected]
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      Same. This place is great, even with the tankies from lemmy.ml and the fascists from hexbear, at least we somehow still get along.

      • @[email protected]
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        643 months ago

        Not all of us are tankies fwiw, I just wanted to be on the largest and most well-supported instance with generally the least amount of downtime.

          • @[email protected]
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            That one isn’t the largest, no. The largest is .ml and it’s run by the two Lemmy maintainers.

            • oce 🐆
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              I am confused, every statistic of .world seems bigger. What am I missing?

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                Looks like I was mistaken, then. Looks like .ml isn’t the largest, it’s just the one run by the two Lemmy maintainers, which for me (combined with .one keeping going down when I was actively using it) made it my home instance.

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        What’s the deal with having a .world user complain about ml and hexbear in every single thread lately?

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s crazy. Almost like we all have the freedom to say whatever the fuck we want, including complaining, because we fucking can.

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          I’m not from .world and also complain about it sometimes. In my opinion, it’s a legitimate reason that makes Lemmy less attractive, as a consequence, you have to set up blockers to keep your sanity which is a hassle for the average user.

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        Having those arround adds some flavour to my feed. I’m like “ooh so that’s what they are up to” I wish that smaller communities thrive but well.

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          They are heavily biased towards China and Russia, two countries with fascist governments. That kinda speaks for itself, even if they claim to be communists or socialists.

          • Liam Mayfair
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            Don’t confuse authoritarian regimes with fascism. China is an authoritarian state running a diluted version of communism, but it’s not fascist. Russia under Putin is leaning more towards fascism these days for sure, but they’re not fascist outright yet.

            Maybe what the hexbear folks gravitate around the most is the idea of authoritarianism. The flavour doesn’t matter as much.

            • oce 🐆
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              a diluted version of communism,

              Is there still something communist in their economy? Are the people working 9 am to 9 pm 6 days a week, owning their means of production?

          • Lad
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            They share the same positions on global politics as pretty much every Marxist-Leninist political party on the planet. You may not like those positions, but trying to characterise them as actually far-right extremist is absurd horseshoe theory nonsense.

            Liberals & social democrats on lemmy.world acting like NATO, the US Democratic Party, and capitalism are the real bulwarks against fascism is amusing.

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              Once you get into Leninist territory the difference between the far left and the far right blurs into meaninglessness.

              Stalin made a deal to carve up Poland with Hitler

              Steve Bannon cites Lenin as an inspirational figure.

              Communist regimes have historical brutally repressed religious, sexual, and racial minorities.

              I could continue but you get the point. People obsessed with control and domination always end up acting the same

            • androogee (they/she)
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              The guy punching me clearly espouses a pacifist ideology, so calling him violent is absurd horseshoe theory nonsense.

      • @[email protected]
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        Lemmy was better before the Reddit exodus last year, when people started insulting others by calling them tankies and fascists. Before that, it was much more peaceful.

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          It was still full of tankies though, lemmygrad was the second biggest instance and you’d see it everywhere

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          They were tankies and fascists before anyone ever came here and found out that they were.

          Calling them such didn’t create them.

          Basically… A tankie isn’t not a tankie just because theres no one there to accuse them of being one.

    • @[email protected]
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      I honestly believe that Lemmy is cool, but it either needs more content or I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting, and the “small community, small town” vibes gives charm to it.

      I’ve been here since August 2024 or so.

      • Troy
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        I agree, so I’ve been posting photos and things. What we don’t need is a bunch of autoposting bots.

        If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

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          If you want to find the busy threads though, sort of Active and All. And just see what is going on across the lemmyverse

          Yeah, this helps, but it’s not always topics that really interest me. We kind of need more diversity of content around here.

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            I prefer scaled to active sort for that reason.

            I agree though, more content and more content diversity would be great.

            The small percentage that contribute content regularity in social media platforms instead of just consuming are great.

            I’m too boring to have much content that would be good for anything other than microblogging myself though.

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          Lemmit bot was one of the first things I blocked. Idk if it’s still around. It would copy like every post and comment from Reddit lol. It clogged my feed so bad. If it’s still a thing, block it, you’ll be glad you did.

      • @[email protected]
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        On Reddit, everyone is trying to get a million votes and just brutally murder with words everyone. It either gets really hostile, or just lots of bots posting bot shit.

        On Lemmy: Even the posters I disagree with, I have a lot of fun with them. We say stupid shit all the time and accept the upvotes/downvotes with our shitposts.

        • ditty
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          That’s been my experience as well. I’m using a Lemmy client that allows me to tag users, and I’ve been tagging people who have posted comments that annoyed me. A few are obvious trolls, but the rest have posted many comments that I liked or agree with since I’ve tagged them. It’s been refreshing to see, actually

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        Lemmy is nice, but the content on it is quite niche. If you want something less tech-oriented, you’re generally out of luck, for example.

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          Reddit startled the same way. It’s aways first the tech weirdos, early adopters and Foss enthusiasts that start it.

        • GHiLA
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          Where my bass fishing homies at?

      • @[email protected]
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        I need to perform a magic trick to make my feed “better”. At least it’s not that addicting

        Lemmy’s feed is intentionally (or I think it is intentional at least) worse in this aspect than Reddit’s feed, in order to not be as addictive. Take that how you will.

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      This place feels like old reddit. When we could have actual discussions and not just be downvoted by bots. It’s so much better here

      • GHiLA
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        And you can still tailor it to yourself. Instances have different mindsets to different topics and things they allow or don’t and there’s tons of people to agree with or disagree with but everyone is cordial.

        I just don’t have a reason to go back

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      It’s so much better. Personally I don’t hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I’m super OK with that.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’d argue Lemmy is turning into its own echo chamber. I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit. I erroneously thought people would learn from past mistakes, but sadly this is not what happened.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’ve seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit.

          The difference is that when that happens on Reddit, you can’t go anywhere else. On Lemmy, you can go to any other instance and do it better if you feel the mods elsewhere are bad.

        • @[email protected]
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          Then just go to a different Instance. I agree the powermods are a headache, but at least with Lemmy they have way less power. You can start a new sub with a matching name on a different Instance, and draw people away from the power mods. People get pretty sick of the power mods, pretty fast.

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    The only way to win the reddit game is to not play.

    • teft
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      People still use AOL internet. I expect Reddit and twitter to die sometime in the 2050s.

      • db0
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        Digg still exists. Death of websites is rarely a complete shutter, but usually more of a steady decline into obscurity

      • @[email protected]
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        I missed the part where Aol. was promoting toxicity and hate while attempting a short-term grift on its users like Reddit and X have.

        That fact that Aol. is still alive is amazing by itself. It’s just another sleazy, beleaguered company that used to be meaningful. You leave because other companies have better products, not because they offend your sense of morality.

        (Or maybe they do.)

        • teft
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          I think you underestimate how ignorant people can be. The reason Aol still exists is because they are grifters too. My Aol example was to show that people are docile idiots and won’t change their habits. Aol is grifting just as much as reddit does. They’re just grifting different groups in different ways.

          That’s why i think reddit and twitter will continue on for a long time. Maybe not as powerhouses but they won’t implode or go away any time soon.

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            My mom was still paying for dial-up AOL in 2016. She had been paying them $20 a month for over a decade while having high-speed internet that she was also paying for.

            When I asked her why she didn’t cancel it, she said she would lose her email.

            So I canceled it because AOL provides free email because they make money off of the ads.

      • @[email protected]
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        Not just AOL Internet, but also the email service. Same for Hotmail. I used to work at iHeart, and the number of those email services (from prize winners) was not insignificant.

        • @[email protected]
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          Hotmail was owned by Microsoft when I signed up in the late 90s. It’s no surprise it’s still around. It hasn’t been my primary email for a long time, but I still use it as my MS account. So really it’s just my Minecraft account.

          • @[email protected]
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            I have a few accounts floating around for different services Microsoft has bought out or since integrated logins for. I genuinely don’t know how many Microsoft accounts I have, and it’s always a pain trying to guess which one a given service is on

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      There are a lot of subreddits for which there is no real replacement. Sometimes the strength in a community is the people. Doesn’t matter if reddit sucks if the people are there.

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      I believe you missed the point. There’s people there because they know that their content won’t be found elsewhere.

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t know, I feel during that exodus we got the best of the best. I miss some of the niche communities, But there’s so many fewer assholes over here.

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    It’s amazing to me that so many people are willing to work as unpaid moderators so that Reddit’s investors can make more money.

    • @[email protected]
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      423 months ago

      There was this one post for a call for mods about “doing a social good for the community”.

      Like bro, this is a video game subreddit. And you’re doing it for free, to help another dude get really rich.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s when I knew we lost. When power hungry moderators felt threatened and, instead of standing in solidarity with its users, caved to corporate demands.

      “But we’ll be able to still protest. Every Tuesday.”

      Hell are those protests still going on? I highly doubt it.

      • @[email protected]
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        Moment that “protest” started I knew it would last like a month tops.

        Most people don’t even care about third party apps.

    • @[email protected]
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      People tried that.

      reddit corporate will remove those mods and ask which other mods want to be super duper awesome and be able to say they moderate another N thousand users per day for zero pay. And people leap at that.

      Until the users leave, nothing will happen. In a fucked way, reddit corporate are doing everyone a favor by removing the spineless “We are going to go silent for 24 hours with no real demands or bargaining power” idiocy.

      • m-p{3}
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        At least you’re not the sucker doing it for free for the shareholders anymore.

        • @[email protected]
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          133 months ago

          I mean… everyone contributing all those super useful posts that everyone thinks are the only authoritative sources of information on the internet are doing exactly that.

          Every time you provide some tech support or a bit of advice? You are providing reddit shareholders’ money.

    • @[email protected]
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      Many subs did that, so reddit substituted the mods for others that do as they are told.

      • @[email protected]
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        The dndmemes protests were a pretty incredible thing while they lasted. The mods changed the subreddit to “nsfw” because that disabled most of the monetization. Then Reddit admins told them the subreddit obviously wasn’t really nsfw and to change it to accurately reflect the subreddit content.

        …so the mods changed the subreddit rules to allow actual nsfw content and people went nuts. In multiple senses of the term.

        Of course “accurately reflecting the subreddit” wasn’t what Reddit really cared about. They wanted to preserve the advertising stream for a popular subreddit, and this did the opposite of that. Reddit admins soon after basically said “remove nsfw content, restore the subreddit to what it used to be, do what we say or we’ll replace you with a mod team of our own choosing”.

        • @[email protected]
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          Thanks for sharing this I guess I left before all of this happened and I haven’t heard any of it.

    • socsa
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      The problem is that this opens the door to far right bootlickers who a salivating at the idea of turning reddit into an even farther right shithole.

        • @[email protected]
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          Well, the power hungry mod that lost their power wouldn’t be very happy with it and larger communities wouldn’t stay closed very long

  • @[email protected]
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    A friend and I were recently discussing how spineless modern boycotts are.

    We set a goddamn deadline for when the Reddit boycott ended. No wonder Spez just waited. Most people then just continued using the website. What a disgrace.

    Imagine if after one week of the genocide in Gaza, the BDS efforts just stopped. A boycott must be indefinite. It should go on until demands are met.

  • @[email protected]
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    so many leaders are forgetting what the point of protests is. yes, protests are annoying if you’re a leader. but they’re better than the alternative. that’s the whole point.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      I have to imagine that when some c-level suit saw that term in his moth-eaten copy of “Social Media for Dummies,” I don’t think it was intended to be taken quite so flagrantly visibly literally…

    • Vahtos
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      63 months ago

      This isn’t limited to the Reddit app. You can see it on the desktop and mobile website too.

    • @[email protected]
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      So that’s what happened?! I rarely come here, but last weekend was so bad that I started updating my subscribed communities here.

      I thought I interacted with too many downvoted posts, and screwed up what reddit thought were my main interests. Guess I was expecting too much from reddit…

      • Boozilla
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        At reddit, line must go up. So user experience must go down.

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    (Copied from the thread on /c/Quark’s)

    I quit as the top mod of /r/StarTrek in 2021 in protest against Reddit’s platforming of vaccine disinformation subreddits. Then in 2023 during the API protest, myself and several of the remaining mods (including mods from /r/Risa and /r/DaystromInstitute) started StarTrek.website.

    The consensus I’ve seen on Lemmy has been largely “we don’t need to spread the word about our open platforms because Reddit will do something stupid again and there will be another protest and Lemmy will be promoted there”. So I hope we can take this as a lesson that we can’t rely on platforms being shitty in order to switch society over to open standards. We need to do our best to make Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed good as well as known.

      • @[email protected]
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        To be fair, a lot of users don’t seem to want the user base here to grow at all. I don’t feel that way but I’ve had enough discussions here to know that this is literally not the case for everyone and it kind of sucks because stagnation is how social networks die.

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          There is a point where more users may bring more downsides than upsides - but we haven’t reached that point yet. There are still many many niche communities that have no equivalent here and starting them would never take off with the current number of people.

        • Corgana
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          53 months ago

          I get not wanting to grow the userbase of lemmy.world which is already kinda bloated but there is basically infinite space for new instances to be added.

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            Agreed. I can understand fearing being as bloated and bot filled as reddit. But we don’t need to grow that big to be a thriving active community of users.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          Thanks for bringing this up. I think I’ve heard this too and I have to say I’m of two minds about it.

          In one end… I am frustrated with Reddit’s greed and I think they’ve lost most of my respect at this point. I think I’m kinda bitter toward them, so seeing them lose market share might bring me a bit of schadenfreude.

          On the other hand, Reddit’s content quality really feels like it’s gone to crap in the last 5-6 years or so. When I came to Lemmy (and Mastodon), it was refreshing because the community seemed to have a bit of that scrappy, fringe attitude that I missed from early Reddit. I’d be sad if that went away due to over-population.

          Basically, I like Lemmy and I want it to be even more successful so that algorithms have less control on our lives. At the same time, I dislike Reddit because they’re going whole-hog into enshittification. I guess I just convinced myself that I want Lemmy to continue to grow ¯_(ツ)_/¯

          • Corgana
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            The difference is that Lemmy is not centralized. So it can’t really be over-populated. If an instance is poorly modded and doesn’t have that vibe you like you can find one that does. The more people using Lemmy the more options there will be, it’s the opposite of Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      started StarTrek.website.

      I don’t use that because you are (or someone is) modding it wrong. You don’t allow people to talk about which parts of Star Trek they don’t like and others might want to avoid. Fuck that. All parts of Star Trek are not equally good.

      • @[email protected]
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        oh yea i got banned on r/startrek for expressing mild dislike of the discovery show, wasnt even rude or anything. Tried to appeal the ban by asking why i was banned got instantly mod muted and perma banned.

    • @[email protected]
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      What you guys did to the alternate Star Trek subs (ie: the ones that allowed criticism of NuTrek) is inexcusable and will never be forgiven.

    • @[email protected]
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      Fuck that Subreddit. I called someone an idiot there and they banned me. I don’t know if this changed but at the time ALL the moderators were privated. I found out one moderators and called them them all cowards and losers. It was THAT exchange that got be banned from reddit entirely.

      I came here and never looked back.

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        I quit because contributing my labor made me complicit.

  • archomrade [he/him]
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    It just occurred to me that convincing someone of leaving a social media site is a lot like convincing someone to leave a big city.

    They have friends there and have grown accustomed to the vibrant and diverse activities, but realistically nothing they do or have there can’t be replicated in a smaller town, a smaller media site.

    They’re liable to put up with a lot of shit to stay with their community, but eventually people get pushed out and find greener pastures and a quiet space for themselves elsewhere. At least, that’s what I attribute to what I perceive to be a higher average age on the fediverse.

    I’m too old to find the constant stimulation and activity attractive anymore, and I much prefer the freedom to move around and be choosy about my media choices.

    • @[email protected]
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      103 months ago

      Harm? That is what would happen to their company if they explained what they meant by “harm”

      • Natanael
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        Because certainly they don’t think brigades harm communities if they won’t trust mods to set subreddits as private

  • @[email protected]
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    623 months ago

    …we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm

    Seems like that’s about the only actions Reddit execs have taken over the last several years. Glad I left when I did.