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@BackOnMyBS@kbin.social

I'm back on my bullshit.

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"MS Teams is amazing. Now that I have it installed on my home computer, my boss can see whenever I'm readily available, even on weekends. I would sure hate for our implicitly obligated...err...family-oriented work environment to fall behind on deadlines arbitrarily made up by our owners...err...the company's management team to help them climb the social hierarchy...err...the team exploit...err...achieve more impact on the community. Sick day? Not if I can login from the hospital."

I'm considering making a reddit to lemmy cross posting tool.

Idea: Scrape all the posts from a subreddit as they're being made, and "archive" them on a lemmy instance, making it very clear it's being rehosted, and linking back to the original. It would probably have to be a "closed" lemmy instance specifically for this purpose. The tool would run for multiple subreddits, allowing Lemmy...

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I'm not against it as long as I can avoid reddit taking over my feed. I'm happy to get away from reddit, not just because of their business practices, but the culture has changed to something I rather avoid. I'm liking this cozy federated feel so far and would prefer to keep reddit's culture from taking over my feed again.

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Judging from my experience trying to sign up for a Lemmy instance for the past 2 days, it's going to be hard. Unless I was doing something wrong, I can see a lot of people having difficulty signing up and eventually giving up. kbin was much easier to sign up for.

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I only see 2 downvotes...omg I can see downvote counts!

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I've been on Linux Mint (LM) for like 3+ years now. I was dual booting Windows, but after not booting into Win for over a year, I wiped its hard drive and started using it as backup storage. Before that, I did the rounds (Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, etc.), but mostly stuck between Kubuntu and LM. LM just seems to work the best for me. Never have any difficulties with anything and love how I can customize Cinnamon. It really just works out well for me.

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I've signed up for both. It took me 2 days of frequent attempts to for my sign up button click to finally go through. It was just getting stuck there with the circle spinning. However, kbin was near instant. I also have greater success when posting to kbin. However, I'm still trying out both.

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a BS PR spin with lots of vague answers that imply he's doing what's best for the reddit community. that's all it can be. given his history, what else could someone expect? even if he were to roll back all the expected API changes so that everyone could still continue to use reddit as we have been, i'm out. i want nothing to do with that site. it's been getting worse for quite some time, and this was the motivation i needed to leave. plus, not that i found kbin and lemmy, i have no need for that site. i purged my accounts, so that even my accounts don't matter anymore.

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I had bought the premium version 8 years ago for just like ~$3-5. that was such a great deal. i loved the ui and how smooth it worked. they never integrated all those new awards. it was just nice and clean.

RIP RIF. it's the end of an era.

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technically, /c/autism is one since i started it. i just started it today, and i'm still the only user, so it's not active yet. but hopefully it'll get some traction with the pending influx.

Does any one know a way to quantify the growth of lemmy/ the fediverse?

It would be an interesting shot across the bow to corporate controlled social media to show opensource, open access social medias growth. I'm sure its in an exponential phase. It also would seem important to the community to know. Is there a way to query across the fediverse to look at user numbers?

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I made into lemmy.world before they shut down sign ups. I knew I needed to hurry and get on board for the rest of the pack! I'm happy I made it am excited to help this place grow into something fruitful for all of us.

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I'm actually happy with reddit imploding. It changed a lot. I don't know how to put it, other than reddit became quite antagonized. It seemed like any thread could turn into people fighting or defending themselves. Say someone makes a helpful comment explaining a complex topic in layperson terms and another user adds to it, the initial commenter will then explain why they didn't explain that additional material as a defense. Reddit didn't used to be like that. It was understood that the comment was an addition, not a correction or attack. Other areas that started getting crappy was if someone shared something they did and there was any possible way to point out how it was not the perfect response to a situation, people would point it out and criticize OP instead of understanding that we are all doing our best and sometimes aren't perfect. It got oddly toxic...now that I write it out, it felt like people became righteous and would argue over anything like they do in political FB posts, except the argument could be about the most mundane insignificant matter.

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i also might have used a github app to delete all of my posts and comments across all of my accounts. i might have done that before reading the post. however, after reading the Apollo author's post, there's no way i might go back to reddit. that is some manipulative shady af bs.

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In case anyone wants to delete all their reddit comment and posts before leaving, I used this nice little product that did it automatically for me:

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

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yes! it's one of the options. you can change all comments to whatever you like.

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I had over 1k comments removed without any problems

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while i don't necessarily disagree that porn can destroy the meaning of sex and wreck one's brain, i really would prefer the state stay out of my business. i think a better approach would be to provide education on how porn affects us and avenues to seek help should someone fall into an addiction. however, getting the state involved on what people can and cannot say is too much control for my comfort.

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