He's being a jackass about it and basically trashing the protests because there isn't this immediate collapse, and for all we know admins have transferred username control to new mods.
Yea there are a few who want to hang onto the banhammer, but the way rossman is portraying it. Everyone in reddit is a failure and he's blaming the userbase.
Yea look at the dipshit army that's following him. He's encouraging or at least turning a blind eye to the behavior.
Plus i'm DOING something about the problem. I left. So Congradulations for feeding into the stereotype that constructive convrosation cant' be had because the first person that talks will be shouted down by sarcastic derps.
Yes Rossman is more substansive and provides actual good advice, but no in that he outright encourages rage flame baiting and daring people to call him on his behavior while he fosters the kind of commentary posted.
I dont' care what he's saying if the community around him is being a toxic cesspit.
So I've seen a few posts regarding news outlets calling the protests a failure, and I don't really think that's the case. The protests have clearly made an impact, especially if the Reddit CEO is willing to oust MODS to reopen subreddits. I truly believe that something has been jump started here on Lemmy, Kbin, and all of the...
The 'Oh we're protesting with a two-day blackout' was the wrong way to go about the announcement since all that says, as has been pointed out, is 'see you Monday then.' Yet it wasn't just a two-day protest. Some came back but many didn't.
The News, be it outlets or people like Rossman, want grand gestures. They want Results. Having people trickle leave isn't dramatic, and it's hard to keep track of especially if reports are true that deleted accounts are undeleted and posts are unscrambled for the sake of searchability. As of this writing my account is listed as deleted and posts I care to find are u/[deleted] but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. If that's happening then it's impossible to tell who's Quit quit, walked away, or deleted their accounts only for it to be undeleted.
While tinfoil; the undeleting of accounts would track for someone desperate just before an IPO.
The alternatives are still in their infancy, at least when it comes to lemmy, hive, and kbin. PHP forums never went away. Hell, Ye Olden BBS's didn't go away. However, there's no monolithic Giant emerging to come to eat Reddit's lunch. So it's easy to paint any dissent as ' Redditors are never happy.'
The stereotype of 'all Reddit mods are the same. cling to fake power and they all are neckbeard pear-shaped basement-dwellers who never bathe haha look at how pathetic they are.' That is seductive to fall into as a narrative because like it or not a LOT of people want someone they can kick down at. Mods flipping to back a fash like u/spez for the sake of fake power gives people someone they can point at. 'We didn't get results because of YOU.'
Yet these are the same people who are organizing malicious compliance reorganizations of subreddits and policies have changed. Mods have been told 'comply or be replaced.' We don't know if admins handed the old username over or not to both smear the outgoing mod and to preserve a false continuity or not. We only know some subs have unlocked after the gun got leveled at their heads.
As someone with a patchy at best history against authority in online communities my sympathies are actually with the mods. Unpaid, having to herd cats, get shit on from the userbase, shit on from on high, and without anything major and high profile? They're getting shit on by otherwise 'liked' personalities such as Rossman when they tend to be the people holding thigns together day to day.
This is not a game of instant results. Modern culture has shifted to NOW! NOW NOW NOW NOW! RESULTS NOW OR IT IS A FAILURE! This is a long game of bleeding reddit dry of relevance. Reddit won't be killed, but it will be a shell of itself and it won't be seen as The Place to go to for answers.
As others have stated, news outlets lie. They don't have a story here so they will make one. Protesters crushed. Who knew internet-addicted Millenials are too spineless to see things through. Millennials are killing protests. Etc etc. Boomers get to feel smug.
So hopefully I'm doing this right! :) (I'm still new to some of this so haven't figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)...
If I could go in full blind no prior knowledge? Final Fantasy 6. I get that it's cheating but it was a sprawling emotional epic and it's been twenty years. I remember getting to the end at like... 3AM after basically a full complete and maxed out run and that ending was.... I want to say a half hour. It had a hell of a lot of emotional callbacks, resolutions, and a few genuinely funny moments. All in a refutation of Kefka's strawman nihilism.
What bothers me is the stereotyping reddit mods as pear shaped basement dwellers that cling to pretend power and go through DTs if they don't have their mod authority for three days.
I am on a... .LOT of shit lists with staff on many locations for legitimate and non reasons. To the point you'd expect me to be agreeing with the assessment, but nope. Those are volunteers that make the network go 'round.
It's the FIDO admin clusterfuck yet again. 'Shit talk the guy while he's there. Guy steps back for mental wellness reasons. sudden outpouring of 'you made everything work! You were the greatest!' etc etc.
Everyone so eager to perpetuate the stereotype of 'reddit mods as pear-shaped scraggly mall ninja types that have a death grip on Banhammer and are internet addicts.'
Basically everyone looking for a group to mock that nobody will tell them they can't.
If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval
The important thing is people can't just casually reprogram the damned thing.
having an ability to diagnose and correct without cracking your head open is fine, but it has to be a way that's 'you're giving positive affirmation that you're OK with it or a medical professional is physically having to plug a thing in or on or ... just so it can't be 'oh hey yo ustepped through these induction plates. we turned your anti-siezure chip off due to your non-compliance.'
It's an exploration ship.... that's almost big enough to qualify as a mobile starbase given the civilian population. Having armaments isn't stupid, especially given how often they rejiggered the phasers to act as a tool rather than a weapon.
@hariette As someone with poor (but still useable) eyesight and low end android hardware. I'll try doing my part to break things (while documenting what I can) to help you improve.
Finally made an account
Louis Rossman: redditor's reaction demonstrates a LOSING, selfish mentality - this is not how you win in life!
The Video...
Content moderators are just janitors of social media: Low-pay, low-respect, but one of the most important jobs of cleaning up human trash
So are automods just roombas?
Remove one letter from the title of a video game; what is the plot now?
Final Fantas - people fighting over the last cans of Fanta in the world....
I've seen a few discussions about the "failed" protests and wanted to talk about it
So I've seen a few posts regarding news outlets calling the protests a failure, and I don't really think that's the case. The protests have clearly made an impact, especially if the Reddit CEO is willing to oust MODS to reopen subreddits. I truly believe that something has been jump started here on Lemmy, Kbin, and all of the...
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Aye (lemmy.world)
Is there a computer game, or a specific moment, a fight etc that you wish you could do fresh with no prior memory of it?
So hopefully I'm doing this right! :) (I'm still new to some of this so haven't figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)...
[louis rossman] What pisses me off about the failed Reddit protest... [Thumbnail Text: Reddit is Winning.] (www.youtube.com)
https://youtu.be/U06rCBIKM5M
Looking for a Reddit alternative? Lemmy tell you, they currently kinda suck (www.androidauthority.com)
Yeah, this describes my experience so far. I really want to like it here, but so far it's been an effort....
Don't delete your Reddit account
Reddit is actively restoring deleted comments and posts. Deleting your account won't make any useful difference. Instead:...
Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says (www.jpost.com)
If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still potentially take more than a decade for the start-up to secure commercial use approval
Private Beta Signup Sheet for Artemis (forms.gle)
Making this more visible :)...