Australian living near Brisbane. Cis-het married cat lady, retired web developer, vigorously pro-choice atheist and feminist. My train station is Lawnton, I shop at Warner, and I have a potato for a federal MP.
Diagnosed at 60 as #ActuallyAutistic. Strong opinions, many interests, boring AF. I don't get out much
My pronouns are she/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie).
@anathema_device on Mastodon
OC (Mildly NSFW) Welp, I guess that's it. The single photo that got my ~10-year-old, 60k+ karma Reddit account "permanently suspended."
Strange phenomenon while deleting my comments
Last night, I used Redact to delete all my comments, then altered the settings to make an exception for one and only one subreddit. To check if I even had comments left in that subreddit, I kept an eye on my comments through Infinity. At first the comments were being deleted one by one, then suddenly it showed a "No comments...
John Oliver approves! (lemmy.world)
Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120?s=20
Just realized something I *don't* miss about reddit: post anxiety
Did you ever have that feeling on reddit of "I better word my post just right, otherwise AutoMod will take it down"? Some subs had such strict auto moderating that it was a crap shoot to post something. Not so here. I know there's value in moderation, and I'm sure Lemmy/kbin/etc. will add more of it with time. But, for now, it...
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."
TayTay PERMA-SUSPENDED by Reddit for 'Harassment' Over Comment Asking for Response!! TayTay, the Sole Active Mod of r/Tumblr, Demodded by Inactive Mod r/IranianGenius (Overseeing 60+ Subs) for Privatizing the Subreddit After Community Vote to go Private!
TayTay's post asking for Reddit admins to respond to his report about being demodded unfairly...
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."
/r/pics is voting on whether to make the sub solely for sexy pics of John Oliver (www.reddit.com)
now you can tell Reddit to get fucked, democratically
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Several iOS apps for kbin / lemmy are now in development!
There are at least five apps that I know of currently in development for iOS. Unfortunately neither Memmy nor Mlem able to connect to kbin at the moment, something to do with the kbin-specific API from what @ernest, @BrooklynMan, and @gkd have said. Kmoon is specifically being developed for kbin and is multi-platform for iOS and...
Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, calls them 'landed gentry' (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s almost like he wants to piss people off. Calling moderators running his site for free and upset ally what’s happening “landed gentry”?!
Trump tells restaurant patrons ‘Food for everyone!’ then leaves without paying (www.nydailynews.com)
Trump defenders on Twitter noted the GOP frontrunner only said there’d be food for everyone at the restaurant — not that he was buying it.
Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those...
Just found out that DuckDuckGo can be used to search Fediverse sites easily.
If you didn't know, on DuckDuckGo you can search for posts or magazines with site:kbin.social just like you would with Reddit. The same applies to any other Fediverse site like Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.. I was really frustrated because it seems like Google was intentionally suppressing them....
Are we 'Shadowbanned' from beehaw?
There was a post about how beehaw was defederating from shitjustworks and lemmy.world about 6 hours ago. Are we involved in that, as are we a subset of lemmyworld?...
France Uncovers Major Disinformation Campaign By Russia (www.rferl.org)
France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.