pory

pory, 11 months ago

Well, the idea would be that when Reddit forces new moderators in, that there'd be a severe lack of people that are all of the following:

• Ideologically aligned with Reddit's CEO and new plans
• Willing to perform unpaid labor for extended periods of time without any reward or payment other than "a job well done"
• Not just a user that has no idea what it means to be a moderator and assumes that it means "i have power" before finding out it's basically a janitorial position
• Not going to get bored in a week
• Not an intentional bad actor (remember, the current mod team in this scenario is all gone so they can't vet community members)
• Cares enough about their subreddit to become a moderator
• Does not care enough about their subreddit to be bothered by the existing moderator team being forcibly removed
• Knows the subject of the subreddit well enough to be an informed moderator
• Once again, willing to accept a workload and responsibilities for a COMPLETELY UNPAID job, where at least some of the users you're moderating actively hate you for being a scab
• Actually good at the task

I moderated /r/smashbros for a few months. It was thankless work but it felt nice making the page prettier and removing hate and spam, and I helped the subreddit prepare for the release (and pre-release leak) of Smash Ultimate in a way that I think almost all the users found agreeable. The existing mod team did a great job onboarding me and teaching me how all the tools work, which way the mod culture usually swings in grey areas, and all of that. Scab mods won't get any of that. If they remove every mod on /r/pics and throw five new guys in (selected by, uh, wibbly magic?), the sheer torrent of spam and off-topic/rule-breaking content (even with the normal rules and not in the middle of Reddit going apeshit) will make it pretty much impossible for any of the new mods to find a stable footing.

Which is kind of the point of a strike - you can always hire inexperienced scabs to replace experienced and dedicated workers, but it turns out there's a reason those experienced/dedicated workers are valuable. And it turns out there are more people out there willing to get stepped on than there are willing to devote two to ten hours a day actively licking the boot.

pory, 11 months ago

The most useful thing from Reddit's comment sections is already here. Bless you.

pory, 11 months ago

I'm new to the whole Lemmy thing, but isn't this the snoo-calypse forum, dedicated exclusively to discussion of Reddit?

pory, 11 months ago

the mod team being removed and replaced with a powermod that moderates 100 other subreddits

Man this is going to end very well when (even a small percentage of) the users start spamming.

pory, 11 months ago

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.

pory, 11 months ago

What makes this different from/better than Jerboa? I'm a (soon to be former) Reddit Sync user and Jerboa's a little feature bare but it does everything I did on Sync.

pory, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Not a community, but I never want to see those garbage spam bots again. You know the ones: "every word in your post is in alphabetical order" or "you used should of instead of should have" or "our dictionary bot recognizes your post has having 17 syllables so here's a bastard haiku". "hi, enjoying Reddit, I'm dad!" "reply good bot or bad bot to vote on the bot", "are you sure because i'm 98% certain that actual tag to the person's username that gives them a notification isn't a bot", none of that fucking garbage.

I appreciate that my Lemmy settings allow me to not "show bot accounts" but what I really want is the ability to completely block those accounts from responding to (and ideally even reading) my posts.

pory, 11 months ago

Did artistically shot and designed pornography ever get an /r/pornporn?

pory, 11 months ago

i'll weigh in here too then: things like palpatine-bot or lopen-bot or bots that look up trading cards on yugioh subreddits are one thing, but the single thing i'm most excited to leave behind at Reddit is the generic "humor" bots that just crawl every subreddit looking for someone saying "I'm x" so they can reply "hi x i'm dad" or someone making a grammar error, or posting a comment with seventeen syllables, or a comment with every word in alphabetical order, or....

pory, 11 months ago

Let me know if a good sequel to /r/cremposting pops up over here on the Fediverse! Also I think Lemmy/Kbin support ::: spoiler spoiler spoiler tags :::

but i'd like to see a more intuitive and easy blackout like reddit's >!spoiler!< or discord's ||spoiler|| (preferably Discord's, because Reddit's is a nightmare on a mobile keyboard).

pory, 11 months ago

TwoXChromosomes was kind of a victim of the fact that it was never in the history of Reddit made possible to change a subreddit's name without just starting over and losing all of the history (incl. top/all time sorting). When the subreddit was designed as a space for women and girls on Reddit thirteen years ago, they picked the name because of 2010 Reddit's very "science rules!" culture and wanted to evoke not just "women and girls" but "geeky women and girls that use the geek site for nerds, Reddit". They were trans-inclusionary over a decade ago, despite the name. Their current pinned post says specifically "Trans women are women. TERFs can fuck right off" in giant bold text.

I get being made uncomfortable by the name, but 2XC was trans-friendly before a lot of other more mainstream feminist spaces were.

pory, 11 months ago

I would actually spend money on Lemmy Sync. Though I'd also love if some of the Reddit app devs went grey hat and implemented token spoofing like Twidere on Android has for Twitter - that app lets me view my Mastodon "timeline" and Twitter timeline in the same feed by telling Twitter's API that it's totally the normal iPhone Twitter app.

pory, 11 months ago

If you don't care about making it run better than on the Switch, you're good. I did a little bit of hoop-jumping, following a guide that was on Reddit (and I don't know if it's currently visible) to get it running really well and also synchronize saves and mods to my PC.

I have not played TOTK on the Switch at all, I've exclusively experienced the game as a PC/Deck game and it's a damn good one. Sometimes I think "oh this must be an emulation problem" when the game dips to 40FPS (PC) or 20FPS (Deck) while fiddling with the Ultra-Hand, but then I see my roommate do the same thing on an actual real Switch and it lags even more.