Zero surprise. Most people are living life on autopilot. They will continue to ignore major issues—like politics, climate change, and corporations mistreating people—to our collective long-term detriment. Anecdotally, I have friends who don’t give two fucks about such important things. Instead, they focus almost purely on MMA, reality TV, and stand-up comedy.
I mean, we all have hobbies but damn, pay attention and take a stand on serious issues that affect us all.
So it’s probably time to add some moderators, not necessarily because things are out of hand or anything, but because I’d like someone to actually nurture this community like I don’t have time to. I’m talking about, for example, having regular pinned conversational live update threads, forming rules, all sorts of...
I have been following the World News live threads religiously since mid-February 2022 and I’m really looking forward to something similar here in the Fediverse.
I don’t have a ton of modding experience but I did mod at r/Moscow for about a week in August 2022. A pro-Ukrainian Polish lad who used to live in Moscow forgot he was a mod there years ago. As it turned out, he was now the most senior mod so he banned all other mods and replaced them with pro-Ukrainian people, turning it into an anti-Putin sub. A subreddit coup, if you will. He said he aimed to use the sub as a way to lift the voices of all the Eastern Europe nations victimized by Russia over the years.
I flaired up to let the Muscovites know an American army vet was now a Moscow mod, permitting a flood of pro-UKR memes while removing pro-RU-invasion posts and comments. Russian jimmies were thoroughly rustled.
Reddit admins eventually received enough orc complaints to give the sub back to them. All good things must come to an end.
Anyway, despite my dearth of modding experience I’d like to help out as a mod. Cheers from Alaska.
I may use Reddit through the browser on occasion while googling (but without logging in). My Reddit activity has dropped 99%. The 1% is lurking the World News thread to follow Ukraine war updates while logged out.
I’ve since successfully upvoted some comments and made replies without it hanging with the spinning circle. Not sure what the issue was but it all seems to be running smoothly now. Thanks.
Free thinkers do tend to bash bigoted authoritarian-following thinkers. If mods removed all partisan comments in a political subreddit or instance community, there’d be a sharp drop in thread activity. I think it’s fine having a mix of objective anaylsis and partisan opinion. I felt that way even back in my Republican days.
After the death of Sultan Khalid, the British supported the appointment of Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini as his successor. However, Khalid’s cousin, Sultan Khalid bin Barghash, declared himself the new sultan and refused to step down. The British, having significant military presence in the region, issued an ultimatum demanding...
I wanted to post my baby and introduce myself. She’s a 2023 Triumph Speed Twin 1200 and I’m absolutely loving her. The pic is from my trip to the Cherohala Skyway Loop and the Tail of the Dragon.
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I am a very patient Apollo refugee. It may take many weeks for some servers to adapt to the ever-growing influx and for new apps to squash bugs and build out functionality. My body is ready. This is now home.
goth bird gf rule (lemmy.world)
Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb (lemmy.world)
SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit’s traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease....
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
On adding moderators
So it’s probably time to add some moderators, not necessarily because things are out of hand or anything, but because I’d like someone to actually nurture this community like I don’t have time to. I’m talking about, for example, having regular pinned conversational live update threads, forming rules, all sorts of...
The official reddit app is not even supported on my device. (lemmy.world)
Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.
What is your job?
curious to know how many low income savers are in the community vs typical FIRE jobs like software engineers
Lemmy.world status update 2023-07-05
Another day, another update....
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Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from US House Freedom Caucus (www.reuters.com)
The shortest war in history occurred between the countries of Britain and Zanzibar in 1896. The war lasted only 38 minutes, ending with Zanzibar's surrender. (lemmy.world)
After the death of Sultan Khalid, the British supported the appointment of Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini as his successor. However, Khalid’s cousin, Sultan Khalid bin Barghash, declared himself the new sultan and refused to step down. The British, having significant military presence in the region, issued an ultimatum demanding...
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Republican Party ridiculed after tweeting wrong flag for Fourth of July (www.newsweek.com)
The GOP Twitter account tweeted, then deleted an image in celebration of U.S. Independence Day that appeared to erroneously feature the Liberian flag.
Hi Lemmy! (lemmy.world)
I wanted to post my baby and introduce myself. She’s a 2023 Triumph Speed Twin 1200 and I’m absolutely loving her. The pic is from my trip to the Cherohala Skyway Loop and the Tail of the Dragon.
magnetic rule imaging (i.imgur.com)
Please do not the MRI machine
Trying to Learn Ukrainian? I Really Like Verba's Videos! (www.youtube.com)
Howdy, folks! I’ve recently started taking learning Ukrainian more seriously and in the process I found Verba on YouTube. As far as her video explaining the alphabet, it’s the best video on the topic I’ve been able to find. If you’re looking to learn Ukrainian too, hopefully this will help!...
Military: Counteroffensive going to plan, full potential yet to come (kyivindependent.com)
Some Lemmy users refer to communities as sublems. In which case we can conclude that all posts and comments are subleminal messages.
Gaggia Classic Evo Pro In-Depth Overview: Upgrades, Performance Tests, How To Use (vlemmy.net)
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did we really just survive this? (pixel.tchncs.de)