Mastersord

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Mastersord,

“He’s about to set off the biggest glitter bomb…in the world!”

Does the reddit style format breed toxicity?

Does the reddit style format inherently make for a toxic environment? Or is it a culture of toxicity from the influx of reditors? For lack of a beter example, on stackoverflow, when someone down votes you, it comes with a comment saying how to improve. On mastodon, people can’t downvote you. These platforms are a joy to use,...

Mastersord,

The karma/upvote/downvote system encourages engagement and gives users an idea of how others perceive their posts. It also encourages people to think about their posts and it helps keep garbage from clogging up the feed.

The problem is that posts are now “attention-centric” and that might lead to people posting stuff that’s more controversial or even “rage-bait” because it gets a reaction.

But honestly though, the toxicity was always there. It’s just that now people express it with an arrow click instead of a flame post calling out the OP’s mom.

I think anonymity or at least the perception of it on the internet breeds toxicity because it’s easier to hurt someone when neither party has to look each other in the eye.

Mastersord,

Then the admins will just override them and force the subs public. They’ll also remove the mods and appoint new ones. The only thing anyone can do is stop posting and leave.

But at least we are doing everything we can to inform everyone about what’s going on, why it’s bad, and why we’re upset. We also let them know that there’s a place to go where we can rebuild what’s lost.

Mastersord,

We didn’t lose. Reddit lost us and will continue to lose.

Reddit offers nothing without its (human) users. They can chatGPT all the posts they want to try and look busy, but people are gonna notice the lack of original thoughts and leave. It will be slow and it won’t be complete, but it is happening.

Fediverse services need to lead with the “all” feed. People don’t want to be pressured to pick a server without knowing what’s on it or where everyone else is. When you go to reddit, the first thing you see is the r/all feed. The posts and content is what gets people to join.

Mastersord,

Now THIS is what we need to see!

Now we have a UX option (and a good one at that!)

Mastersord,

It’s classic tribal or “sports team” mentality. Ex-redditors want to see reddit fail just as much as Lemmy succeed.

Mastersord,

I’m only explaining the behavior. There’s very good reason for it, and I very much also want to see both Lemmy succeed and Reddit fail.

Going back to extract brewing...

First time posting here, but looking for pointers to good extract beer recipes. My friend and I have been all-grain brewing for a couple of years, but I recently became a father for the first time, which cuts down my spare time significantly! I'm finding that I just don't have the time for all-grain brewing any more, so I was...

Mastersord,

I’ve switched to aluminum conical fermenters. Much easier to clean and lighter than glass. They’re pricey though.

Mastersord,

If you have the money, consider an all-in-one system like Grainfather. Brew days can be 4-5 hours without rushing and most of the day can be handled via a programmable controller.

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I want to address the uproar in the Fediverse about preemptively blocking the Meta ActivityPub product. And whether it should be at the instance or individual user level. A variety of reasons for and against this have been given.

At the moment, I would go with the latter. But no matter the arguments, the reason every single Fediverse user should block it is that Meta is a box of c*nts.

They have always been a box of c*nts. And they will always be a box of c^nts. Meta should be trusted as far as I can kick Zuck. About six feet. They will immediately or eventually try to enshitify whatever product they launch. At that point, administrators should block them at the instance level.

Maybe I am wrong, but maybe the Easter Bunny is real.

Do I need to remind anyone these are the mofos greenlighting the spread of misinformation of all types, science denial, propaganda from the enemies of democracy, conspiracy theories from every lunatic on earth, election stealing, suicide instigation for teenagers, and the mass genocide of Muslims in Myanmar?

Mastersord,

I agree. I also think that it will naturally happen as well regardless of discussion and tech just due to their user-base.

Mastersord,

What does that actually mean? Are they just going to set up an instance or are they going to buy out the software? What would the former actually get them? The later is open source (or so I’ve heard), so how?

Mastersord,

I thought they were endangered and need protection.

One thing that's surprised me about the Reddit shitshow

Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....

Mastersord,

This was bound to happen. As long as someone at reddit could override the mods, there’s no way the subs could stay private indefinitely. At least not without the entire community in agreement.

The goal is to make sure all this drama stays public so everyone sees how pissed everyone is and investors see reddit as the sinking ship it is.

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    Mastersord,

    Reddit is still blazing. The real damage is yet to be seen.

    Once July 1st rolls around, we may see another wave of migrants and then, assuming moderation fails as everyone is predicting, reddit will turn into a spam-filled garbage dump.

    Once we reach a higher mass of active users and posts, reddit will slowly evacuate and become a ghost town. I predict a timeline of 1-2 years for all of this.

    Mastersord,

    So Reddit is forcing open a piracy sub. I wonder how potential investors would feel about that?

    What’s with the cynicism towards Lemmy on r/RedditAlternatives and Reddit in general?

    For a sub that’s supposed to promote Reddit alternatives, there sure is a lot of pessimism on there. I see so many people dismissing Lemmy and kbin already for being too inaccessible, the UI is clunky, it’s hard to pick up etc and saying these sites will never take off. But why? Of course a platform in its infancy will have...

    Mastersord,

    There are a ton of places that want to be the next reddit and everyone is trying to get everyone else to migrate to their platform.

    None are ready yet and each have concerns. Lemmy, Kbin, and fediverse platforms have been dominating a lot of the discussion but they aren’t Reddit and they probably never will be (especially not by July 1st).

    You have a lot of confusion and frustration that there just isn’t another Reddit out there yet. To all those I say that Reddit didn’t happen overnight and it’s all going to take time.

    Is there a website where you can paste a $pot1fy playlist and download all the tracks in decent quality?

    I am looking to save all the music I like on hardisks due to the recent closure of rarbg which was a wake up call "unless you save it you don't own it". So if anyone knows a way to download playlists instead of each single song I will be thankful!

    Mastersord,

    I’m not familiar with Spotify, but could something like stationRipper work?

    Mastersord,

    But in those cases, the users trust that the server hosting the platform they are on isn’t just some guy’s Personal laptop.

    Are there any stability requirements for starting up a server or can someone start up a server on their personal laptop?

    The other problem is that eventually you will have only a few large servers because people who join will want as much content as possible. Basically the “Google” problem.

    Mastersord,

    ALL from Lemmy.world and ALL from other servers are not all the same. Each server has its own list of other servers which they federate with and some don’t necessarily federate with all the others. At least this is how I understand it and it confirms my observations and others have confirmed this as well.

    Mastersord,

    Try clearing your browser cache. I couldn’t create an account here for the last 2 days until I did. It kept spinning otherwise.

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