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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!
Lol, more than half of my frontpage doesn’t even show up, it’s just the same subs over and over again. Made me check Lemmy more often
Ya I’m honestly getting better more thought provoking content here and stuff I’d never scroll past on reddit cause you have to really narrow your interests down cause how much there is. So I’m learning new stuff.
Anybody else starting to suspect that spez might have committed a teeny tiny bit of investor fraud?
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!”
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.
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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I think that goes for all authoritarians really, I mean, post WW2 east Germany was the German Democratic Republic, which was anything but democratic under Soviet occupation. Fascists for sure, but don’t think authoritarian communists don’t use the same playbook.
While I definitely think it’s a bad idea to closely equate the two. You are not that wrong. Fascists are far worse. But authoritarians in general are not desirable. When those in control of absolute power feel threatened for their power the well-being of those underneath them goes out the window. It’s how you get waves of genocide under fascists. And dissenters under authoritarian leninist communism shooting themselves in the back of the head three times or falling out of the window backwards onto bullets.
Sounds like a people problem to me. We really gotta take better care of ourselves, don’t we? All of us. How do you ever stop this from happening? Where do we go from here? I guess that’s why the status quo is upheld.
What a slow rolling machine we are.
It definitely is a problem of human nature to be sure. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Most people just want to live their lives and don’t seek power. The few that do seek power generally should never have it. But we do need some minimal power structures.
Part of the biggest issues is education. In western nations Political literacy and education is purposefully deficient. Because it benefits those in charge of the systems. Not to say it isn’t similar in other style countries. Ignorance is always a useful tool however.
Yep. There is an obvious malice for personal gain. I can feel it.
I always narrow it down to education. But how. The ideology is so strewn about, by design.
We’d need to teach stuff like mindfulness in school. Something that should be taught, but would be looked down on as some flavor of other. I wish I was taught to think and live. I was taught how to keep my head down and hate myself. This is just how it is.
They really dug in deep. All over the world. Kudos to them for holding “power”, whatever that is. I can feel it before I go to bed, telling me what I’m not allowed to say aloud.
People even pray to the ugly thing. Imagine that. Praying to something other than your own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others prayers.
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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
Oh you meant literal raccoons, sorry my tired ass was still thinking of them metaphorically :D I don’t know, beeing an animal and not having to work is cool and all, but I like my opposable thumbs.
I wanted to be the capybara.
Okay I pull up
Lemmy is a field of saplings
We are a whole forest - the beauty of federation tbh.
And the fediverse is the mycelium network that connects us all.
And the users are the… rain?
The mulch. We feed the trees and fungi.
Waow 😮 <3
K, thx bye. So long and thanks for all the fish
So long so long so long and thanks
Really hoping the hardcore people are here now. Fuck *eddit.
Don’t even need to be that hardcore, just have some self respect. Spez made it clear what he thinks of mods and users. If you don’t draw a line here they will just make the “peasants” eat more and more shit in the future.
If I can’t win I’ll make my own rules…Jesus guy just admit you were wrong.
Side note, did anyone see how /r/Pics handled this after they opened back up because it was beautiful. Around 2300 users voted to open /r/Pics again and 37k users voted to keep protesting in their own special way.
Read the poll again, reopen had negative 2300 votes
Oof, missed that little hypen…that makes it worse.
how are they protesting?
Only images of John Oliver looking sexy are allowed.
Damn I never thought I would want to go back but this temptation might be too great, I gotta see those sexy pictures.
But are there really any images of John Oliver not looking sexy?
No. Per the rules, any picture of John Oliver is sexy
No. That just gives the sub plenty of content.
Go ahead dude, I’m done with reddit.
Oh no, this will attract unpaid mods.
fine, do it then. I dare you. I double dog dare you!
Oooh, there’s only the Triple Sinister Dog Dare left! 😱😬
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
Judging by what I saw on my last day on Reddit, he may be right.
