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Mildly Infuriating

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[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All I have to say about this is that this was a blessing in disguise for me. I’ve never heard of the fediverse until this Reddit fiasco happened. I’m having a lot better time here being part of something new and it feels good to start fresh.

[–] tinysalamander@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Same. I've been diving into Linux and open source and self hosting lately anyway, and at the same time you're telling me open source social media is a real thing and gaining in popularity? Count me in.

[–] puck2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here, but I miss some niche subs.

[–] mcburgs@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

Stick around and help this grow.

If you build it, they will come.

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[–] devnoname120@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

When you think about the situation, it's really just Reddit cracking down on unions… Of unpaid workers… Who are defending customers' interests… Which in turn support them… And all of this while pretending that they crack down on unions for the benefit of customers. That's a really shitty move Reddit is pulling out right there.

[–] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

yeah, but we are not the customer. we are the product.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, thats the funny part, those mods were unpaid. They have no rights to do anything just to obey reddit.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Steve Huffman is pissing all over Aaron Schwartz's grave, and completely abandoning the ideals that was once a foundation of Reddit. Reddit was originally open source, Aaron died in 2013, and by 2017, Reddit had abandoned the open source / community philosophy entirely.

Never forget Aaron Schwartz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As a computer nerd I never knew about a lot of what this wiki article described, and I'm something of a news junkie to boot. It was a great read.

From the wiki article...

Swartz wrote in his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:[47]

The world's entire scientific ... heritage ... is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations....

And interesting quote, in light of the current situation going on at Reddit right now.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the main reason I haven't been back to reddit since this shit began. All of this goes against the original ethos of Reddit that made me join and is a disrespect to all of the people who made reddit what it is. It disrespects the users, the volunteer moderators, the app developers, and the old employees. Most especially, though, it disrespects Aaron and, if I'm not mistaken, Alexis.

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[–] rakara@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This entire fiasco has been a blessing in disguise. Reddit's CEO and admins showing their true colors woke up a lot of people. Their behavior is disgusting and unethical.

[–] Fog0555@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They cannot remove a post's NSFW tag if it has NSFW in the title.

[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sad, but reddit shoots themself just more in the foot.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I needed a kick in the ass to get me here, and the second and third and ... waves of reddit fuckery finally got me to join. It's a shame. Reddit was once a good place on the internet. Now it is entirely enshitified.

[–] LawnMooser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I went back today...i have some plant id subs left and a couple of things that are still good, but yeesh, i had a lot to do today and i ended up wondering what is going on there. At this point there are things that are not safe for life, dammit. Cool to have this place now, i have to say.

[–] ksm1467@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Seeing mod teams get nuked was what drove me away.

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that went just as I expected it to. The admins are still the admins. They're the top of the power totem and that's that.

Honestly this protest's only purpose shouldve be to raise awareness of alternatives and tell people "were leaving Reddit, and this is where we're going" while we still can. Because Reddit is private property, and therefore will always be subject to the whims of its admins - regardless of how people believe it should be run of if people think it should tolerate protesting against the platform on the platform.

Everyone should've been aware that this protest could only have been temporary.

Sure we reminded them of the power we possess, but they've essentially reminded us that they possess more, and can remove that power regardless of how the community feels. Admins are and have always been at the top.

[–] polygon@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No one had any illusions about how this was going to go. The point was making them do it. The point was forcing Reddit into a PR nightmare just before their big IPO. The point was giving this platform traction. The fact that this post exists on this platform is proof that the mods succeeded. Sure, Reddit is still huge.. but with entire mod teams being replaced with Spez bootlickers it remains to be seen whether they can maintain what they have, or if this is Digg all over again.

It's hard to predict what will happen, but I'm here, and you're here, so something is happening.

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[–] Chalky_Pockets@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, they're gonna keep ruining Reddit while we steadily migrate here. We're just being a pain in the ass on our way out.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back when there was exodus from digg people started posting links to stories on reddit to digg. I think the same should be done right now.

[–] Chalky_Pockets@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make sure you're willing to abruptly lose your Reddit account if you do. Reddit admins are being pretty cunthroat about this all.

[–] Protheus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is there a value in an account you aren't planning to use on a site you don't like anymore? I think many people will wear "being banned for advocating to migrate" as a badge of honour.

[–] bahcodad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That really wouldn't bother me at this point

[–] Krazix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone told me i was going to get banned for saying i joined lemmy.world on reddit.. and it's like.. Okay?? This site is shit now anyways, so you're going to ban me for using a different website, that's a great way to retain users during your mass-user revolt crisis.

[–] Pyrarrows@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably specifically because the admins (Spez) don't want people hearing that competition exists

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit is going to do whatever the fuck it wants and will gladly fuck over the mods and users in the name of shareholder interests. These actions are chilling for anyone still considering building a community using Reddit.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As much as I should be happy to see power mods like iBleeedOrange and AwkwardTheTurtle get served a taste of their own medicine, it pisses me off that this is the hill that Spez chose to kill them on.

Unfortunately Spez will have to do so much worse to truly kill off the site.

[–] Argyle13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spez must leave. Meanwhile, the ones leaving are the ones that create the content that gives them visits and money. Very good decisions, yes. What a shame, Aaron Swartz would be shocked and furious, no doubt!

[–] Ech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The dead can't say one way or another how they would have felt, and using them as a voiceless weapon is pretty shitty.

What Spez is doing is bad enough on it's own. There's no need at all to disrespect the dead like that just to shore up your righteousness.

[–] artistan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Reddit is picking a fight with the internet…

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Which would win in a fight, 100 Reddit-sized Internets or one Internet-sized Reddit?

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What garbage

I started Lemmy last week. I was only going to Reddit for Ukraine stuff and now the Ukraine war video sub is GONE. Amazing how much they have fucked this all up in such a short period.

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At least they took a stand. Thousands of other subs who got the same ultimatums just gave in no questions asked, no malicious compliance.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I can understand that, lot of smaller sub are build by themselves, not wanting to lose something you spend so much time building to some random smug is pretty much human, it isn't about holding that jANitOr job. I've seen a country sub i frequent goes from 4 digit to 6 digit in the span of 6 years, it's a lot of works. Also sub like r/projectzomboid is established by the company and mods are paid position, getting kick out is...weird lol.

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[–] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The delusion is strong with the admins. Don't they realize that the mods represent a good number of the users?

What is a social media platform without users? Nothing.

[–] Scaldart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I guess I could see how this is infuriating to some without foresight, but when the event was expected from the very beginning I fail to understand how it would incite those feelings.

Reddit was always going to do this.

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