You are absolutely right, I am not a parody, I am the greatest president, I mean the greatest ever. Why would anybody even parody me, I'm so great, greater than great even. I'm the greatest of the greats.
They got high and mighty from people stuck at home from the pandemic. Now that we have a lot of time to do other stuff (and especially since people want to get out more than ever), they don’t have the leverage they once had.
I think the more casual disconnected nature of this place is more akin to what the world needs now in terms of social interaction. It vibes with a more active lifestyle. I do think there are places that will pop up for people that need or want more true online interaction.
Reddit’s ability to aggregate information is unmatched, but I think this has the chance to be even better if we keep working at it. One issue overall that Reddit has is that you have to go on Reddit or be a part of refit to be heard. Here, you don’t!!!
The implications of this are incredibly fascinating to me. I’m looking more into how federation works and it doesn’t seem like a huge difference yet, but people will be able to comment here in an “official” capacity if they wanted.
Instead of having an AMA that’s vetted and posted by Reddit, maybe a researcher from a University could just comment with their own account in their University’s own mastodon instance.
This in and of itself gives layers of credibility and anonymity that are self-selected and in a gradient depending on how much you are willing to reveal about yourself. Here, I’m mostly anonymous but on my other accounts I could put my name and school I go to etc.
The fact that everyone can still interact makes it really fascinating. I’m interested to see what comes out of this.
Awesome. I'm done with reddit. There is enough random new content posted here to keep me occupied and we're not even federating yet. Hopefully this catches on and my favorite communities migrate over. I was going to quit once sync shutdown, anyway, but no need to wait.
If subreddits aren't going black for good/until /u/spez stops changing posts he doesn't like and backs down you're only wasting user's time. Gritting your teeth for a few days is easy; doing the same until someone blinks is another.
I actually hopped on r/ModCoord a couple hours back to see what was going on, and it looks like a LOT of people were commenting that they were going to go indefinite. I really hope so.
r/Videos already said they will not reopen unless reddit makes changes to their recent decisions. I'm not very optimistic but I hope other main subs will follow. Because let's face it, a 2 days blackout is not going to accomplish much. A protest should end only if the leaders die or accept to the demands of their people, not just 2 days.
A sub like /r/videos will eventually be brought back online. The site admins will remove the mods and replace them with ones that don't care and want the "power" (do janitors have power?). They'll remove the mods who were protesting and take away any of their mod privileges, maybe even ban them outright. That wouldn't surprise me one bit at all, par for the course for Spez.
I forget if it was videos or music, but the mods of one of the large subreddits said they paid money out of their own pocket for a server for custom mod tools. They are probably better off not having to mod for free (or less) with shitty or non existent mod tools when reddit kills third party apps
I guess that's a possibility, but where will spez find masochistic people who have to deal with abuse, spam, CP, far-right bullshit holocaust deniers every second of their day for free? Reddit mods may seem on a power trip and almighty super proud people but they are still what keeps reddit not turning into voat or 8chan. And they do it for free. Then reddit reaps the profits. Something's not right.
where will spez find masochistic people who have to deal with abuse, spam, CP, far-right bullshit holocaust deniers every second of their day for free?
For all he cares, the mods may as well be people who spread abuse, spam, CP, far-right bullshit holocaust denial, every second of their day, for free... As long as he can make his money.
I have no idea if voat still exists to be honest, and I'm not going to check. But it is (or was) a prime example of what happens when there is no moderation. Crazies take over and there is no more discussion.
Funny, I'm a proffesional brewer. I started at home and then into my parent's garage and then my own brewery which I had to sell due to health reasons and now still brewing. But not at home.
Don't even concern yourself with what reddit is doing anymore. Just try to build a rich community with content here. It's up to us to make conversation interesting and engaging here.
Reddit is going to go into a slow decline. It's not going to burn down.
What this is actually doing is allowing other general discussion sites to reach critical mass so that people who are sick of reddit but couldn't find anywhere else to go (such as myself) have a choice.
Reddit is like the Wal Mart of internet discussion forums. Some people shop at Wal Mart because they want to, and some people shop there because they drove all the other stores out of business and they're the only place left.
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