I'm thinking you should probably stop speaking on behalf of everyone. I am not American but I do care that millions of Americans are losing their rights. I care that US businesses got over a trillion in PPP loan forgiveness but that the same can't be extended to 40 million individuals and their student loans for education they are almost forced to have if they want a shot at making more than minimum wage and even then, it's not a guarantee.
I'm not a refugee but I care that the Greek government effectively let hundreds die rather than assist them.
I'm not French but I am interested in the riots happening there.
I'm not Russian, Ukrainian, or even European but I want to know what is happening with the occupation of Ukraine, the coup attempt, and what other countries are doing to ensure the Russia doesn't violate NATO and the repercussions if they do.
Why do you believe you get to narrow the scope of what is news on behalf of everyone else?
I don't think they're being ridiculous to say that US politics has an impact outside of the US. To quote a former Canadian Prime Minister:
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
That makes an assumption that the person is aware they are pregnant the entire time.
I didn't know I was pregnant until I was roughly 11 weeks because I was using birth control. Except this was before the more recent shouting-from-the-rooftops news that antibiotics can render birth control pills ineffective. I'd been on antibiotics for two weeks around Christmas time and here I was in March, at my doctor, trying to figure out why I was sick when he asked me to do a pregnancy test.
I didn't get 3 months to decide. I had to wait 2 weeks before I could get an appointment for an abortion for a pregnancy I absolutely did not want and had been doing my best to avoid by being on birth control.
I'm not the only woman with this story or a similar one. Many women simply don't know they're pregnant until several weeks in, especially when they are using birth control and don't have an abundance of symptoms.
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
If anyone is going to do this, it needs to be done in stages so it can't be easily reverted back like we're seeing with the one-shot comment delete scripts. Slowly dismantle the sidebar information and links, fuck up the automod and other bot settings. Tweak the CSS and flairs. If you're going to go nuclear, make sure they can't easily get it back.
For what it's worth, I'm only using kbin on mobile and a lack of app hasn't been an issue for me. I say this having come from Reddit using Relay for a good 8+ years.
A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.
I was lying in bed last night thinking about how great a 4 day work week would be and how it would allow me to actually accomplish things that I can't today because Saturday becomes the day to do all the errands I can't do during the work week and Sunday is a hybrid of chores, socializing, and relaxing... assuming I don't have training or maintenance scheduled at my volunteer gig. Having a day where I can focus on a hobby or interest in a relaxing manner without other obligations lurking would be so delightful!
And while I recognize that people manage to do all those things and don't have an issue with it, that's great for them! I struggle thanks to being neurodivergent and that additional day not working each week would drastically improve my quality of life. I know this because when I take a Friday or Monday off, I'm able to do all the things I need and get the me time I also need to be a happy, healthy human.
Mr. Huffman is stretching in a variety of directions here. Reddit is not a feudal government, or a city in any sense; neither is it ultimately “democratic,” as he frequently suggests. It’s an advertising and subscription-supported web service that also depends on free content and unpaid labor from its users. It is, substantially, in the same business as Meta, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok — giving people something to use mostly for free in exchange for their monetizable time and attention.
While that quote has been attributed to Twain (and several others) over the years, there is nothing to suggest that Twain used this particular phrasing nor was he the originator of it. That credit goes to George H Derby, under the pseudonym John Phoenix, back in 1855.
The trifecta of “kings, editors and people with tapeworm” has been widely attributed to Mark Twain, but like so many witticisms credited to him, there’s no record he ever said it. It’s also unlikely that Henry David Thoreau ever made the remark once ascribed to him: “We is used by royalty, editors, pregnant women and people who eat worms.”
Worms, or more specifically tapeworms, figure prominently in we-related humor. The earliest known joke to combine parasites and pronouns comes from George Horatio Derby, a humorist from California who assumed the pen name John Phoenix. “I do not think I have a tapeworm,” he wrote in 1855, “therefore I have no claim whatever to call myself ‘we,’ and I shall by no means fall into that editorial absurdity.”
I'm not sure where it ranked at the time but I remember when one of the subs hit 100k (this was circa 2014) and by the time I left we were close to 500k. When I checked before the blackout they were sitting at 1.9m.
You're absolutely right about an alt not doing much, if you ever had time for that. Modding definitely affected my Reddit experience, even after stepping down, and combined with how it changed over the last several years, my participation went way down, maybe a handful of comments a month at best, and I lurked and upvoted/downvoted for the most part. I'm slowly shaking off those cobwebs in this exciting new space!
My time as a Reddit mod left me with no desire to do it elsewhere and I'd modded other forums prior to Reddit. I stepped down about 5 years ago and while I won't say I'll never do it again, I'm exhausted just recalling my experience and that's enough to put me off.
There are communities I'd love to have and see here on kbin but the mere thought of the time and effort has me taking a hard pass.
r/pics & r/gifs pulled no punches with that announcement. I'm glad some of the big subs, users and mods alike, are continuing to push back against these changes. I'm fairly certain I'm done with Reddit but I hope things improve for those who do stay.
The mods there have decided to allow underage looking content, skirting close to CP. Unless we want such disgusting stuff on our feed, I think we should defederate from that instance....
Are you someone who believes rape is okay because of how a woman is dressed? Because "she was asking for it dressed like that"?
Because that's what you sound like.
Edit: the person I was responding to has edited out the "you wanted this" from their comment which is what I was responding to. They were effectively suggesting that people wanting old Reddit wanted child porn. Fucking disgusting.
I saw kbin recommended by someone on Reddit (my apologies for not being able to give them credit - I didn't clock the username) and out of all the alternatives shared that I checked out, this one just felt right. If that makes sense. Thank you for creating such a wonderful space!
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
This is, by far, the best article on the subject I've read to date. I really appreciated this paragraph being included:
This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.
I've been on Reddit for roughly 12 years and spent several as a mod of various subs. I don't expect to go back to Reddit after this blackout as the only thing that kept me there was using Relay Pro; I have no intentions of giving Reddit a single penny even through a 3rd party willing to do the work to accomodate this obscene cash grab.
John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?
When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.
The Coup of /r/AssholeDesign (imgur.com)
Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
[THE VERGE] The statement Reddit gave us is the oldest trick in the book. (cringe.whatever.social)
Reddit is about to get a little less accessible (www.theverge.com)
Poll: 61% of voters disapprove of Supreme Court decision overturning Roe (www.nbcnews.com)
On the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, 53% say abortion access nationwide has become too difficult, a new NBC News poll finds.
Best news aggregator? Where do you get your news?
I used to use flipboard, then once I got hooked on Reddit I got lazy and just started getting all my news from there....
Went and invited people on 2 subreddits to kbin/lemmy/beehaw.. I got flamed BIG time..
hey! I went on reddit to invite people over here on a subreddit.....
How often do you turn federation off?
The title. How often do you turn off federation and only scroll through kbin threads and magazines?
Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)
Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode....
Be patient! We'll get there eventually.
I see a lot of comments pointing out bugs and saying something along the lines like "they need to fix this ASAP, otherwise... something something"....
[rant] Why is this so hard for people?
Can I just rant a little to you all?...
TIL: Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan as part of a "Work Life Choice Challenge" by shutting down offices every Friday. Productivity, measured by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% compared to the same period the previous year. (www.cnn.com)
A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.
Reddit and the End of Online ‘Community’ (nymag.com)
A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.
Reddit CEO defiant as moderator strike shutters thousands of forums: 'We made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on' (fortune.com)
"Protest and dissent is important,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the AP. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything."
Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
On the day before the Reddit blackout began on June 12th, Similarweb logged more than 57 million daily visits to the platform.
What Reddit features do you *not* want kbin to have?
in what ways do you think kbin should strive to be different from Reddit?
The mods of /r/pics and /r/gifs after polling the subs have switched to images of John Oliver only
Announcement on /r/gifs and on /r/pics....
We should defederate from lemmynsfw
The mods there have decided to allow underage looking content, skirting close to CP. Unless we want such disgusting stuff on our feed, I think we should defederate from that instance....
Kbin.social passes 30k Monthly Active Users
It's still tiny numbers in the scheme of things, but also quite a big number for a site that had ~30 users this time last month....
What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)
After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
Trump now claims classified documents were ‘planted’ in Mar-a-Lago boxes (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump rants at Special Counsel as he scrambles after being hit with 37-count indictment
[CORRECTION] 7742 went dark out of the 8299 that committed. Interesting to note: 204 of the top 250 subreddits are dark (src: save3rdpartyapps.com). (reddark.untone.uk)
As of 12:56pm GMT (7:56am central time), 7742/8299 subreddits are no longer public...