lich_hegemon

@lich_hegemon@lemmy.world

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lich_hegemon,

They have done so already for a few subs where a few of the mods were willing to budge. In others, all mods were removed and the subs were made restricted.

lich_hegemon,

Because for some piracy isn’t simply about being a cheapskate but also about activism

lich_hegemon,

It was one of my favourite subs. No drama, little to no politics, engaging content. Shame.

Prediction: Reddit will someday remove the downvote from all posts.

I am predicting that before the company goes bankrupt, Reddit will remove downvotes in an effort to prevent users from expressing negative sentiment. This happened a few years ago on YouTube after YouTube Rewind became the world's most disliked video, several years in a row. This was embarrassing for the company because it...

lich_hegemon,

This is not exactly true.

It's not that the votes don't count, it's that Reddit uses a particular technique where the karma you see is randomly modified every time to make it impossible to see if your vote has an effect.

The goal is to prevent bots from realizing when they have been shadow banned.

📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW)

EDIT: GO DM MODS OF YOUR FAVORITE SUBREDDITS AND POLITELY ASK ABOUT MIGRATION!: something as simple as "Hey, I love this community but I no longer use reddit, will you guys be making a community on Kbin or other alternatives? Let me know please, thanks." will work!! We need more voices encouraging migration!...

lich_hegemon,

Reddit: you must do what the community wants

Reddit: no, not like that

lich_hegemon,

Think of it as a mailing list. There's a bunch of people in it getting updates from others. Some use Gmail, others use outlook, others Yahoo, etc.

lich_hegemon,

What privacy? Everything here is it in the open for everyone to see

lich_hegemon,

We need Accidental Renaissance here

lich_hegemon,

I was afraid they were trying to turn Reddit into TikTok. Turns out it's worse, they are trying to turn it into Pinterest 🤢

lich_hegemon,

In a text post, yeah. Not in a link post

lich_hegemon,

They don't want to deal with the legal implications of it. Spez has said ad nauseum that they don't want to risk 3PA providing NSFW content to users that Reddit is not allowed to serve because they don't want to be held responsible for that. Especially now that some US states are requiring actual ID verification for 18+ content.

While Spez is a lying weasel, I don't doubt that Reddit is worried about NSFW-related lawsuits, bad press, and ad revenue impact.

And, the next step after having control of the content is to further restrict it.

lich_hegemon,

It has its place.

For example, leather in second hand products it's great because it's durable and often high quality. And, whatever you do, the animal has already been killed and paid for.

I would also buy leather products if it's for something that I intend to use for many years. It sort of offsets the environmental damage from buying multiple synthetic products.

Then again, I'm not vegan.

lich_hegemon,

Political compasses are stupid anyway.

It's a political torus. Walk of one end and you end up in the other

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    lich_hegemon,

    Users are people capable of making their own choices. It they don't like the moderation approach they can just make a new account elsewhere. You don't get to tell them what they like.

    lich_hegemon,

    They are not power tripping, if you've read their posts you'd know that they have a very concrete view of the story of community they want to build and unfortunately their manpower and moderation tools just don't allow them to stick to it while staying federated with rapidly growing communities.

    Is this what the internet felt like? (lemmy.world)

    I've been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?

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    lich_hegemon,

    This is the thing that excites me the most about the fediverse. If we can keep it from being monopolized by corporations, it will become a reflection of what the old internet used to be.

    lich_hegemon,

    Let's assume that everyone who upvoted their option also downvoted the alternative.

    The group A, has |A| number of individuals. Group B has |B| number.

    Option A: |A| - |B|
Option B: |B| - |A|

Option A = |A| - |B| 
         = -(-(|A| - |B|))
         = -(|B| - |A|)
         = -Option B

    The results would be opposites of each other and would highlight the opinion of the majority anyway.

    lich_hegemon,

    That's for redistribution rights. GDPR is for protection of personal information and applies regardless of their terms of service. Some US states have similar laws.

    You can hit them with a GDPR request regardless of your place of residence. But, if they fail to comply, you can only escalate if you are in the EU.

    lich_hegemon,

    It's not about the servers, it's about moderation. They have a clear vision of what their instance should be like but they don't have the tools not moderators to make it so while getting traffic from other big instances

    lich_hegemon,

    This is hearsay, but I believe it is temporary until better moderation features are developed and user influx shows down.

    lich_hegemon,

    Email works, or used to until giant corporations consolidated hundreds of small providers into a handful. I don't know why it wouldn't work for this.

    Sure, the average user doesn't care how it works. That doesn't mean they can't use it as intended anyway.

    lich_hegemon,

    I can live with that. Actually, I would be happy with that if that means those power users will be coming here.

    lich_hegemon,

    Those were friendly exclamation marks. Not angry ones.

    lich_hegemon,

    They are not trying to burn it down. They don't care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.

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