• @[email protected]
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    02 years ago

    Of the three people involved in Reddit’s creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit’s greater vision.

    Swartz was a far better person.

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    I hadn’t thought about it until now but what do redditors who didn’t migrate say about us? I’m really curious now but I don’t want to look. I’ve only been on the site a couple times since the blackout and they were for specific reasons * I don’t want to ruin my streak * . Does anyone here use both regularly?

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    • @[email protected]
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      From what I can tell a lot of the people there who are even aware of it think of Lemmy as inactive and irrelevant and the protests as an embarrassing failure.

      • krimsonbun
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        82 years ago

        the protests were an embarrassing failure but lemmy isn’t

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      From the place I still use as they didn’t move, I haven’t seen a single mentioning of Lemmy, fedivers, black out or anything close. Makes sense as those communities didn’t even try moving.

      In one of the subs I did notice a quality decline and it moving a bit from, people talking about shared experiences with a medical condition, to being babys first experience with medical condition, but it has moved back even so slightly, but the average age seems to have gone down.

      The other one for a game. I can proudly say is just as low quality as before, but I stick around to give tech support, even if it of the absolute most basic nature sometimes, and keep up with updates, bugs and community fixes.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years ago

        Okay, that’s slightly disappointing but nothing surprising. I appreciate the well thought out response, thank you.

        Kind of seems like the scale will always be tipped on reddits side but hopefully that doesn’t discourage the people who actually do come here. As long as Lemmy is active, I don’t plan on using anything else. My reddit account was over a decade old and I’m hoping my Lemmy account will last even longer. Should I move instances?

        • Druid
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          Considering that Reddit was the safe haven for people trying to escape “mainstream” social media who didn’t want anything to do with 4chan, it isn’t surprising that most of the fanbase is loyal to them. It is a little disheartening, indeed, but I guess it’ll take a couple more of these big fuck-ups for something to change noticeably.

          I am, however, very fine with the amount of engagement we have here despite the lower user base. Might actually be better exactly because of that.

          I mean, the instance isn’t really that important, is it. You can still interact with everything on here regardless of the instance your account is registered to.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Out of all the people I know irl who are aware of Lemmy, 50% have tried it, and of those, all but one was out of by the tankie mind rot and inconsistent moderation.

        • Dark Arc
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          52 years ago

          The “fuck capitalism” at every turn is pretty frustrating at times even as an active user.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            And in reality, fuck capitalism. But we don’t need it in every thread. It’s exhausting. And the tankies brand is way more “fuck the US” than “fuck capitalism.” They are just violent, often weirdly bigoted, and poorly informed.

            • Dark Arc
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              12 years ago

              And in reality, fuck capitalism.

              And I mean yes, but it’s a nuanced conversation. Capitalism is off the rails and a lot of people are being hurt by that, but getting things back on the rails isn’t as simple as “just don’t do capitalism” or “do socialism.”

              It definitely doesn’t need to be in every thread like you said, because trying to have those repeated nuanced conversations is just exhausting.

  • @[email protected]
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    552 years ago

    Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that’s the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It’s why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it’s what’s so great about Wikipedia.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      i’m of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit… they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation’s access to it.

        • m3t00🌎
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          22 years ago

          $3 dollar words make it seem like it’s real complicated. plain greed and middle management stunts

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    942 years ago

    Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s

    Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant’s reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.

    • tygerprints
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      I doubt they have delicate fee fees or feel feels or whatever. I don’t care whether they even care that I was banned, all I know is my ban from Reddit is a badge of honor and proves I can get under other people’s skin. You always know you’re telling the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.

    • @[email protected]
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      362 years ago

      Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP’s comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.

  • tygerprints
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    My lifetime ban from Reddit (which resulted from saying that we need a more progressive political candidates in our country) was a badge of honor, proving my opinions to be correct and undigestible to fascists. So I had a medallion engraved with my date of expulsion which I keep in a place of honor over my fireplace.

      • @[email protected]
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        152 years ago

        Mine was for saying that Nazi’s were a part in a war from 70 years ago, and that they should be dead now.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          I am convinced there is no human behind the suspensions and the moderators reporting those who report will have you banned irrespective of merit. Such a nice environment

        • tygerprints
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          22 years ago

          I actually got banned from Facebook for posting about getting sick on my birthday, saying I hated being sick on my birthday. They replied it was “hate speech” and so I was banned for a week (!).

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      52 years ago

      Being banned from somewhere doesn’t prove you right or wrong. It just means those particular people are angry at you, rightfully or not.

      Just a subtle reminder because fascists and nazis themselves regularly use such kinds of phrases. Doesn’t make them any more right or honorable.

      Do what is right, and always strive for freedom, and you’ll be good :)

      • tygerprints
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        32 years ago

        My ban from Reddit proves I was right - you know you’re right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you. In the same way, books are truthful when they get banned for daring to speak the truth.

        I always do the left thing (not the right) and achieve my freedom by not staying quiet or bowing down to fascists.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          you know you’re right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you.

          Not really. If you say Hitler was right, or any of the myriad of other terrible statements you could make, and you get permabanned for it, you’re still wrong.

          • tygerprints
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            22 years ago

            The difference is, those statements “Hitler was right” or any other kind of mentally ill belief are by all universal standards immoral and wrong. They don’t get banned for being truthful at all, but for being morally reprehensible. I was banned for being morally above and beyond what Reddit can claim as moral standards.

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          You miss the important part.

          You ARE right, and you should fight for the truth, and not bow to anyone, but the mere fact that you were banned isn’t proof of anything.

          People calling for genocide get banned. Outright nazis get banned, even while they try to move the gate. Many terrible people do get banned. Doesn’t make them any more right. One can just be too stubborn to make reasoning impossible.

          “I was banned thereby I’m right” is a very dangerous idea that often fuels your - and our - enemies and blinds them to the reason. It serves nothing but radicalization, for the right or, very often, for the wrong.

          Saying those things validates the ideas that end up turning against you - and against the reason and the truth.

          • tygerprints
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            No I’m not missing your point at all, I get it, I simply don’t agree with it. My ban from Reddit proves I was right in bright neon lights. Because Reddit is going backwards and devolving into the lowest form of human sewage - fascism.

            Yes people calling for genocide should be banned and nazis and homophobes and other degenerates as well - but not because what they are saying has any modicum of truth to it, just the opposite. They get banned because of being horribly wrong, and unable to perceive the difference between reality and mental delusion.

            So I’m not entirely at odds with your viewpoint, I’m only saying that more myself in this one particular instance, my ban was proof of the veracity of my statements.

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              For Reddit fascists, you are banned because of being horribly wrong.

              It’s very easy to say “they were banned for being wrong, I was banned for being right”, but ain’t that double standard?

              You were banned not for being right, but for saying something that fell out of Reddit guidelines - which can be skewed and fucked up, but it wasn’t you being a messiah and them trying to cover everyone from the truth and light you’re spreading.

              • tygerprints
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                I suppose it is a double standard, but my viewpoint was correct and actually was not outside of their guidelines, which I pointed out in my response to them wherein I called them fascist scum and (various other terms I won’t use here).

                And I am a messiah, I am that I am. I am the great “I Am.” And all who contradict me are as dead to me as the dust of arid desert lands.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      He uses arch btw

      OP is a superior life form and the masses must obey because of the technological superiority and the nuanced knowledge base that OP operates with. Trust bro, lemmy is better.

    • catsarebadpeople
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      202 years ago

      Calm down. Just because no one likes you doesn’t mean you have to be a dick for no reason

  • Ech
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    192 years ago

    Spamming a live chat is just being a nuisance. Nobody’s been annoyed into listening to a spammer.

      • Ech
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        52 years ago

        We can’t see much of anything. The image shows all of 4 comments. But I can guess, considering the all capital username and copy-paste format - I would bet money that they posted that same thing over and over again. Also, I know this platform is understandably anti-Reddit, but I really doubt they’re banning people for a single comment about Lemmy.

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      i can imagine an infinite number of live chats where spamming as a nuisance is positive. spez, scientology, MLMs, i don’t even have to be political

      • Ech
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        32 years ago

        I’m not defending the Spez stream. I’m saying spamming a chat with JOINLEMMY is just going to make Lemmy look bad and associate it to new people as an annoyance rather an interesting alternative.

    • AdemirOP
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      Nobody’s been annoyed into listening to a spammer.

      It was just the comment with most “thumbs up” while I was there LOL.

  • The Barto
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    202 years ago

    he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate’s Web site as a prank.

    What a fun little image that conjures up.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    To be fair, I would imagine that this event had some rule about not advertising in the chat in the ToS or stream rules fine print somewhere.

    And as much as I dislike Steve and Reddit, I agree with Reddit on this one. You (or anyone else) shouldn’t be abusing the chat of a competing service stream to advertise a different one. It is not the place for that and is rude. Please do not give existing Reddit users reason to believe all Lemmy users are rude rule breakers.

    • AdemirOP
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      I am not complaining. I was there to make fun of Spez and I don’t care if I was rude. If they think Lemmy users are any different than Reddit users they are delusional. There is all types of users here and there.