Reddit admins repeatedly asked mods how to make like for them better. And then repeatedly ignored almost every single answer they got, rolling out features nobody wanted and taking away things people used. It was the years and years and years of putting in hours and hours of time working against the enshittification that made me tired, and then it was the stupid fucking over-reaching AI moderation that caused me to leave after my accounts started being banned for no good reason with appeals failing.

It took far too long for them to drive me away, as I know it did for a lot of others.

One can take this lightly (I usually do), but in reality these people are a danger to the entire fediverse.

many people have been asking me: "what is the garbage mindset?"

well, I apologize for making you uncomfortable, but it is time for me to say the loud truth

And I'm sorry if this offends, I mean no offends by means of saying this, but here it is: "Embrace the garbage of the mind!"

Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

The problem is, they get so trapped up in the vague-at-best definition of “civility”, that they allow propagandaised bullshit as lit as its polite.

This isn’t how a community should be run, and it’s why the divisionists pretty much own the comment sections in any political posts and communities.

No mods have the balls to tell these fuckos to kick bricks.

I don’t disagree, but I think the heavy-handed moderation was often in service of “cleaning up” to make the website more commercially palatable. Like when they pulled r/atheism as a front-page reddit.

For me, the out of control engagement bots constantly commenting on my comments was the last straw that made me leave.

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

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@chartier gosh, how are you locked out of your devices? I’ve had prompts to sign in to my Apple account and calendar has stopped syncing etc, but I’ve still been able to use my devices.

@ThreeOhFour Those page borders look neat. Is there any particular inspo behind them?

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

@colin_mcmillen Ils n'ont pas la place, il faut parler des résultats des clubs de sport locaux... c'est important ça les clubs de sports locaux !

Getting too close to Trump was a mistake.
@nickclegg and I knew that then.
It's clear now.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@nickclegg/post/DfkVOGFDeRs

@mark My personal opinion on you not getting too much interaction on your artwork, while awesome, has been the shift to folks running a client that feeds both Mastodon & Bluesky…I have purchased an Ivory sub but am waiting for Phoenix. I know alternatives exist but often forget that I need to switch between apps because I’d rather give my money to folks versus the Indigo folks…no shade, just loyalty. @Tapbots ❤️