This got a good chuckle out of me, and I was gonna comment something else. But when I clicked on the thread and saw your username, I snorted so loud I forgot 😂
Thanks for making my day!
I don’t “like” that it got this bad, but I do like that the worse things get, the more we can collectively organize and pressure reform to fix these things.
It’d be great to see a true social revolution take place in my lifetime. Social for the sake of social, not controlled by a single corporation with a business model that’s designed to exploit its users.
This already exists it’s called face to face communication. You can do it in private spaces like living rooms or bars. You can also find public spaces like parks and transit. If you’re shy look into activities related to hobbies.
Yeah, just let me head over to the local 20k-member community for a mobile game that hasn’t been updated in 5 years real quick. You know, the one that every city has.
Love it or hate it, the reality is that the genie ain’t goin back into the bottle.
So might as well make sure that genie is nice and friendly, open source, portable, interoperable, non-manipulative, and non-threatening.
Yup the fediverse is the best it’s been since social media consolidated online discussion and independent forums faded away. I still strongly suggest developing relationships within your real world community because it is very easy to be deceived and exploited online even if the technology isn’t doing it intentionally.
Why can’t I comment
Check if your logged in, if your on liftoff, login again even tho it says your logged in
u just did bro (or sis)
Oh cool, for some reason I can’t seem to comment from app but can from the browser
There were some issues with lemmy.world this week and most apps require you to log out and back in to start working properly again. Hopefully that’s all it is!
I’m getting the same issue. I’m just glad to have a Reddit substitute that works
yea the Android apps are being weird to me, too.
Having same issue and just commenting now as a test
Edit: oh yay
Edit edit: trying from Memmy
Edit edit edit: oh yay oh yay
I can’t see you!
I do not know. Try again!
Content is slowing drastically, r/all isn’t updating for most of the day from low engagement, reddit uses a differential for upvotes which doesn’t reflect total users well.
reddit uses a differential for upvotes
ELI5? I’m genuinely interested - just wonder what this means? I’d always assumed +1 on a post meant 1 user clicking the “upvote” button.
It’s some sort of weird percentage once you get past a certain number. I’m fuzzy on the numbers but 1.2k upvotes shown on the website was worth a different amount than actual. Something like 1.5k = 1.2k upvotes for your personal karma.
They “fuzz,” votes, and it starts after only 10 or so. It will return a value within 10% or so of the true vote. It is to obfuscate the totals to make it harder for bot accounts to tell if they are shadowbanned or not.
I am not reddit geek so TIL
That was changed years ago
I agree, I studied abroad with a 12 hour difference and during the day there, when I browsed Reddit, most of the posts were lower quality because most people were asleep. (Sorry euro peeps)
It’s when the evening came that the posts picked up quality and engaged me.
Now that I’m stateside, I feel like Reddit posters are completely and perpetually asleep (or just gone).
It’s really wild to see reposts over and over. Like some Redditbot constantly spamming the same thing hoping to get some traction going for conversation.
Ahahahah we know.
Best regards,
Yurop
Not sure what this place will evolve in to but it seems like a nice replacement for Reddit. There is a lot of work to be done for people to re-build the communities and transfer the information but if enough people buy in to it… years down the road this could be the place to be.
I agree, Rome wasn’t build in a day, it takes consistent effort to create a thriving community.
We just need to fortify against the invading “Barbarian Hordes” (I mean Zuccs and Eloy)
I actually didn’t even think about if it was true or not, I just love that dog in memes… I mean it’s a meme… It’s not pretending to be some accurate source of information lol upvote done
Thank you for saying this. When I created it, I thought it was a nice pun, a good way to revive the bad pun dog meme and I stand by it that there is some truth to it. I definitely wasn’t expecting it to become my post with the highest exposure to date, or for a post made in a shitposting community (!) to be taking this seriously.
That being said, I still think Reddit is in trouble. As I pointed out in a previous comment, there are still more than 2000 subs in the dark, moderation is at an all time low morale, bot traffic is increasing, re-posts are increasing, content quality is decreasing, comments are increasingly toxic. etc. There are definitely a lot of small subreddits where there is no change noticeable. But saying Reddit is back to business as usual doesn’t seem very realistic to me.
Totally agree on all counts
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This is not true. I’m so sick of people here obsessing over reddit. Just get over it.
Yeah, I moved over on the 30th when the app I’d been using for over a decade (the only way I ever accessed reddit) shut down and haven’t felt the need to discuss it. Until now, of course. It’s really silly and as newcomers to this place, we should be mindful that there are many longtime users that have made this space what it is. Here’s hoping the pollution ends soon.
tbf Boost was still working until yesterday so today is my first day without reddit and this time using both plataforms I really came to apreciate Lemmy.
Yeah kinda cringe if I may say
this is so obtuse. people have been posting there for over a decade
It’s the way of things anyway. Reddit was often posting about Facebook, or Twitter, or TikTok, or Tumblr when it was relevant.
I use ddg. But what is bangs?
I’ve only been on there to search for specific things and I’ve noticed a lot more spam in the search results.
I’m just glad some mods are smart enough now to realize that putting subs in nsfw mode is the way to go. The subreddit shutdown, John Oliver spam, etc, really didn’t accomplish anything. Like, why would Reddit admins even care you’re spamming John Oliver? You’re still getting them ad revenue.
apparently reddit has been cracking down hard on that measure, and lately they even unilaterally set every sub back to sfw, after threatening moderators with vague consequences if they start posting or approving nsfw to justify the label
Great, permanent nsfw worked. Their next move is to run an active campaign to get people out of Reddit and onto better alternatives. That’s all that’s left now.
The bot mods are going to do that for lemmy, banning anyone speaking across echo chambers.
That’s when Cyberpunk 2077 decided to encourage people to take screenshots of fully nude models in the character creator and start posting them in the sub.
Super quick and low effort way to stay on topic and stay NSFW.
Yet they don’t do anything against Oliver. Almost like the nsfw thing works
The John Oliver thing is more of a long-game strategy. The less posts become interesting, the less engagement Reddit is going to have. Although what they didn’t consider is that those subs are very unspecific and there are enough alternatives that people aren’t going to miss them.
It’s a passive protest, while the NSFW one is active and therefore more effective/dangerous even short-term.
Sounds like dictatorship… Am I using that right?
literally 1984
I mean, depending on the number of owners, a private company like Reddit (per Wikipedia) can function internally like a dictatorship or oligarchy. Occasionally they can be benevolent, but consider dictatorships in nations: how many of those are benevolent?
Ultimately, anything less than workplace democracy (like Mondragon) will likely devolve into rampant exploitation at some point in time, and even they aren’t completely immune, just generally less bad than their alternatives.
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I go on Reddit for one sub and one sub only. Other than that, I don’t care about the site. Notifications are blocked and I’ve hidden my bookmarks from myself.
Same, but the one sub is my profile to delete whatever decides to show up on that day…! Sucks not being able to control your own data easily - but I understand why they’d engineer it this way.
You should check out this tool then
https://rdx.overdevs.com/subreddit.html?r=all
Reddit without all the bullshit and mobile friendly
Just a blank page for me…
Are they?
Found the actual Spez in this thread.
We really already doing this? Really about to start the whole “I’m going to insult you because you have a different opinion than me, and I’m not actually going to contribute to the conversation at all” shit?
Leave that dumb shit on Reddit.
My guy, it was meant as a joke…we’re in the shitposting community, calm down.
I think it really depends on what subs you are subscribed to, some people are almost noticing nothing at all. Other places are a real dumpster fire. Just went back yesterday to see if my GDPR request had gone through already
GDPR request?
Forcing Reddit, by law, to delete any and all data associated with your account. If you do this, make sure to specify that your request includes all posts and comments as you believe they contain “personally identifiable information” that you do not trust Reddit to keep safe. It forces them to use a lot of resources and kills any reason for you to relapse on your adiggtion
Can non-EU users also demand a GDPR?
No. Californians can though https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiond
Yeah, I started with this. I’ll do a GDPR after they reply to the CCPA. Gatta maximize that shit.
You can use Power Delete Suite. It’s what I used.
Yesn’t***
https://www.metaverselaw.com/does-gdpr-apply-to-us-citizens/
My guess is if you make a big enough stink, they won’t want to attract the legal ire of any organization.
starts VPN
I am now an EU user
In a general sense, GDPR is:
“The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), under Article 15, gives individuals the right to request a copy of any of their personal data which are being ‘processed’ (i.e. used in any way) by ‘controllers’ (i.e. those who decide how and why data are processed), as well as other relevant information (as detailed below). These requests are often referred to as ‘data subject access requests’, or ‘access requests’.”
It does seem to include your right to delete the data, but that’s not what most of us did.
It’s a European law which forces companies to delete your data if requested. They are probably deleting heir account.
Ah I did that. Didn’t know it was called that tho
Deleting your account isn’t the same as using a GDPA request. If you deleted your account, you should follow up: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request
I think that’s the right link? I’m not logged in… You might not even be able to request anything if you can’t log in, so try email. Make them work for it!
I did the data request, I just didn’t know it was called GDPR request
I think the low-effort subs are fine-ish, but the ones that took any actual effort to moderate are going seriously downhill.
It’s almost as if all the 3rd party tools and apps that mods used to automate much of the suck out of moderating just stopped working one day… hmmm…
Unfortunately a lot of the game communities are not budging. I guess I shouldn’t have expected more from people that pre-order everything that hits the market.
You mean Blizzard? I didn’t even check… But I bet they are one of them. Fuck Blizzard. They’d sell their mothers into sexual slavery if it meant a few more dollars in profit.
Mine hasn’t still. I find that pretty ridiculous… Pretty soon they’ll be breaking the law.
Some smaller niche subreddits have been fractured pretty bad. If you’re someone who mainly used Reddit for hobbies and such, you’d notice more than somebody who just lurks the default subs.
I go on for the worldnews & the uk subs they don’t seem to be impacted too much but I’ve not seen the need since the uptick in traffic on lemmy
To be honest, when I was back there yesterday I missed Lemmy. I either had forgotten about the amount of toxicity that is over there, or it has gotten worse because of all of the issues.
I mean, the toxicity is definitely noticeably higher. I’d bet good money that it’s a direct result of tons of mods just going “fuck this noise” after having basically all of their 3rd party moderation tools turned off.
or it has gotten worse because of all of the
issuesbots trying to direct a narrative.I gotchu.
Thanks, autocorrect must have gotten me again
Yeah it feels like a lot of the moderate voices jumped to lemmy or other alternatives which has allowed the toxic users to surge.
Also mods largely abandoned their posts so toxic stuff is ever more now.
