dreadedchalupacabra

@dreadedchalupacabra@forum.fail

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dreadedchalupacabra,

They handed me a dormant sub I requested before the protest was happening, while I was protesting. So I blacked it out too and added it to the protest.

I like to imagine that admin was like "I don't know what I expected."

The_Augusto, to reddit

So I just read the announcement that #Reddit sent out to subreddits that were still dark, including my (tiny, 200 person) subreddit of trans memes.

What should we do about it? I don't really want to hand over control of r/t4t_irl. I had a lot of fun moderating it. I earned my place there.

I'm going to be talking to my fellow mod, but I'd be happy for advice from mastodon, too.

dreadedchalupacabra,

@nattiegoogie

@The_Augusto

That's what I did. When we came back I never did the John Oliver stuff, we opened as normal and got to work finding a new home for the community members that wanted one.

dreadedchalupacabra,

If that kind of free speech is allowed, I absolutely pray that I'm also allowed to mock you incessantly for it. Conservatives check in like "Hey am I allowed to be intolerant here? I just wanna be sure you won't ban me for spouting hate."

dreadedchalupacabra,

Just wanna make sure they're allowed to invalidate other people's existences because of their own world view.

dreadedchalupacabra,

I'll be honest, the John Oliver thing was kinda dumb in the first place. Just... Don't post. Don't feed reddit if you want to protest. Going to reddit and still shitposting because you're mad at reddit and want to kill their traffic... I don't think anyone really thought this through too well.

dreadedchalupacabra,

You can and should defederate from things you don't want to see. That's the whole point of the entire project, that you can control your experience and choose to interact with whatever communities you wish. The Donald has a history of brigading and generally being a barbarian horde of racist dickheads, so defederating from them makes absolute sense. This isn't just "I don't like your opinion", it's absolutely "these people have a proven history of ruining every group they go near."

dreadedchalupacabra,

Found the Trump supporter.

dreadedchalupacabra,

I'm Jewish. They think I have secret space lasers that start forest fires. No, I don't have to "give them a space so I don't have an echo chamber", a lot of them want me dead. This isn't about politics.

dreadedchalupacabra,

"Leftwingtears" "Why do people keep banning me, this is only equal discourse!"

I can't with these people.

dreadedchalupacabra,

Everyone's all "stuff to make world peace!" but I'm gonna be honest with y'all.

A lot of old video games. Like a catastrophic amount of them.

dreadedchalupacabra,

Yes, reddit bans people for hate speech. And why are you going to every sub and thread talking about this? It's almost like it's not just a casual conversation topic but you're actively spreading hate propaganda. Gee I wonder WHY you keep getting banned.

Maybe don't make political talking points from a hate group your entire personality.

dreadedchalupacabra,

Oh they already banned and then unbanned the kbin migration sub.

dreadedchalupacabra,

I also don't like the Lemmy devs because of the nonsense they pull around the topic of the Chinese and Russian governments.

Still don't block the people on my subs from talking about it. Because I'm not an asshole, and I don't have to like everything that gets posted to my subs.

dreadedchalupacabra,

Most big subs ban those full stop. Just because of what you're suggesting.

dreadedchalupacabra,

Yeah I end up having to report about 10 threads a day to reddit for report abuse spam because of this, they report it as hate speech when people talk about the blackout positively, trying to get people banned to silence them. The only way to prevent that is report each case of it to the admins so they know it's a targeted attack. What these assholes are ACTUALLY doing is just making more work for the moderators that care if their members are banned over some dumb shit.

dreadedchalupacabra,

Someone should start a magazine specifically to catalog the subs that aren't cool with fediverse crossposting, to save the hassle.

dreadedchalupacabra,

I mean devil's advocate here, what do they do with social media in a socialist market?

Lemmy and kbin were created in a capitalist market. So was linux and the rest of the foss concept.

dreadedchalupacabra,

So they could reintroduce it 6 months later and get cheered for doing the bare ass minimum.

dreadedchalupacabra,

They don't want you finding content, they want you watching the content they feed you. That's why you used to be able to just subscribe and see videos, and then you had to ring the bell to see stuff you subscribed to (BECAUSE WHY WOULD YOU SUBSCRIBE TO SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SEE?) and then you only actually GET to see that content if you're also allowing notifications to spam you about it. The process literally changed to "if you want to always see what you want, instead of what we tell you you want, you have to let us blow up your phone 24/7." Fuck the modern internet, this is the reason I tend to just hide in my old video games most of the time now.

Did r/retrogaming mods get demodded for supporting the blackout?

For those who don't know, retrogaming on Reddit was a labour of love, there is a multireddit, m/retrogamingnetwork that networks over 60 subreddits under one banner giving the audience, banner, and reach of a big subreddit to some very small and niche spaces....

dreadedchalupacabra,

Hey, we opened up a federated retro gaming magazine. We're actually moving the entire community over here.

dreadedchalupacabra, (edited )

Oh, we do. It took a few to get it sorted but we're actually doing it here. The community was really nice to me when this thread happened, and heard me out, I like the people here. So we're moving here. I already started setting up the mags, and will be handing them off/recruiting mods from forum.fail after it's all set up and people start coming over.

Eventually I'm going to crowdsource an entire instance just for us and get some bots to scrape whatever happens at reddit, build an archive and a website for the posts about rare hardware and just cooler stuff that pops up. We're archivists first and foremost, that's what retro gaming really is. I don't trust that solely in the hands of reddit right now, you're 100% correct.

dreadedchalupacabra,

It is! Here, in fact.

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