MargotRobbie

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

People joined Beehaw because it's the most similar instance to current reddit. The problem is that current reddit policy just doesn't work.

I think it'll take time for all the reddit migration to develop a unique Lemmy culture away from reddit (there is always risk for a bad culture like what happened to Voat of course), and if they continue their current course, Beehaw will just get left behind as proof of failure of Reddit remnant on Lemmy.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Did nobody mention that 3rd party apps came before the official Reddit app? And that the official reddit app was originally Alien Blue before reddit bought it and turned it into whatever it is today?

Reddit has been fighting against its users for a long time, nobody asked them to close their source code, nobody asked for image/video hosting on reddit, nobody asked for their slow, buggy new design, and you're damn sure nobody asked them for their NFT crap. The API closing is merely the straw that broke the camel's back to reddit's fundamental issues.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

If reddit decides to moderate the Piracy subreddit directly, does that mean that they'll be responsible to respond to DMCA requests? If so, that's going to be a shitshow all in itself.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Oh, reddit's still going to be around for a long time, and I don't think reddit clones were and are any real threat to reddit (See Voat, or any of the crypto based reddit clones). However, Lemmy is different in that federation is a revolutionary change to the reddit format just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.

So, a likely scenario is that high effort content creators are going away first, leaving the average user who only notice the content getting worse and worse until they leave too, and the dreg will get more and more concentrated as more regular people leave, which lead to worse content, turning it into a death spiral.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

I do think reddit was the one that popularized it though, maybe it would be more accurate to say "combination of nested comments and vote based instead of time based sorting"?

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Keepass on OneDrive, so I can access it from my computer and phone.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Only having pictures of John Oliver is definitely an improvement over normal r/pic.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

The original Starcraft for me. Even though I suck at it.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

It's honestly pretty freeing to not have Karma at all. Keeps away the Gallowboobs of the world.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

On the internet, you can literally just be anyone you want.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

You're welcome. Now go watch Suicide Squad again.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

I remember back in the day when reddit was like this, fun, high effort discussions, even with people complaining about how confusing reddit was to use.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

I disagree respectfully, as I think this is a feature and not a bug of a federated structure. It's well known that reddit suffers from the "20K Law", which is that "The quality of any subreddit drops off a cliff after it gets more than 20K subscribers". Which is likely because that is the limit of effective manual moderation.

So, having multiple communities on the same topic would be a fundamental fix to that issue, as instead of one giant community, instead you get different, smaller communities with different culture on the same topic, whose users can still talk to each other.

I think the current system is fine as is, we're not trying to remake a better reddit, we are trying to be better than the limits of reddit.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Jerboa. It's pretty bad though, I wouldn't even really call it "usable" since it crashes so much, had to just browse on Firefox on my phone.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Nah. If you see something interesting just post the direct link to it instead of going through reddit. Lemmy is a content aggregator after all.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Just use a nail clipper, safer than using a knife.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

And he brings it up NOW, when the mods collectively did something that threatened his pocketbook, instead of when powermods were running rampant on the default subreddits.

While I support the principle of having mod elections, in practice it doesn't work for internet communities because there's really nothing there to fight against vote manipulations.

I do think federated instances will solve this issue though, if the community you subscribe to did something you don't like, there's nothing stopping you from just go to another community about the same topic with mods that you do like, because subreddit name squatting is near impossible on Lemmy.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

In honor of Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian is pretty fucked up, I like it better than The Road (although excellent as well) because it's just more verbose.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Cheesy. Do you have the recipe?

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

If they show disruptive behavior that you don't think is acceptable, ban them. There are very few people who would be motivated enough spend the time to remake an account just to troll and get instantly banned again, and for these people an IP ban should deter them enough.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Wow. Love your work, the Kudos system is honestly brilliant.

Horde is where I see transformer based text/image models go in the future.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

Definitely not. LLMs just make things up that sounds right, for anything other than the simplest code you pretty much always have to fix the output.

LLMs are only useful as rubber ducks to figure out what might be wrong with your code, and it's honestly easier for me to read the documentation/Stack Overflow instead when trying to write code from scratch.

MargotRobbie, 11 months ago

If their jobs are too important for them to go on strike, why not just give them what they want?