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Anyone remember how redditors thought the „most evil“ subreddit on the site wasn’t any of those but „ShitRedditSays“ which made fun of them while pointing out how awful they were? What a website.
Look, I don't Kink shame. You're free to choose your favorite British Invasion rock band.
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I’m new to the Fediverse, and so far I’m loving it
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.
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Reddit was always shitty from when
The only reason the jailbait sub came down was do to main stream media pressure - if you missed jailbait was a “SFW” sub for posting reveling photos of other people’s children to be gooned over. It was voted “Subreddit of the year” in 2008
the mod who ran jailbait was an ICON on reddit for years and he also modded dozens of other equally questionable subs
The insane redditor backlash to them banning FatPeopleHate sub - which for those who missed it was a sub dedicated to posting photos of overweight people without their knowledge so the internet could mock them. This was mostly made up of - yes you guessed it - mostly photos of fat women getting mocked.
Leaving up the BeatingWomen sub that is specifically for posting videos of women getting beat up for 10+ more years after jailbait came down.
leaving up the Creepshots sub, a sub dedicated to upskirt and down-shirt photos of unsuspecting women, for YEARS and only taking it down due to to it hitting the main stream news and forcing their hand. This sub was also modded by the Jailbait mod.
the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES
Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator on worldnews - I cannot back this claim up so I am removing it.
The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.
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Even if you block the ads and ignore them the site is so heavily botted with these bots pushing all sorts of products.
One of the most useful aspects of reddit used to be getting other perspectives on products you were interested in. This is no longer useful because of the massive networks of bot farms. You simply can no longer tell what’s real on that site and what isn’t.
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If my MiSTer poops out on me I'm fucked, they are like 500 dollars now.
His point about phrases like "white/male/etc. privilege", "microagression", and "defund the police" being more divisive than helpful is... interesting. On the one hand, it's good to have succinct terminology for discussing complex ideas -- but it seems valid to ask if we could come up with more precise and descriptive terms, and to wonder where the popular terms came from.
Defund the police is divisive because people choose to believe propaganda over facts. Because if people had all the facts, rather than the TV shows and cop PR departments filling the news with stories, they would want to abolish the police.
Thomas Massie is a terrible lawmaker, and I'm glad to see him go, but his articles of impeachment against Hegseth are devastating and self-evident. It is to the current House's great shame that it failed.
Under normal circumstances, even a single one of these charges would result in the secretary's resignation or firing. But under the current president, the only grounds for that are disloyalty (to him). War crimes are just part of the job.
I wonder if Hegseth will quit to spend more time with his family just after Christmas and just before the new session begins.
@paw deck altitude?
@xurizaemon That dog is passing overhead at a very low altitude. I would even suggest it's below minimums.
ISP is flaking out almost exactly at 5pm when their office closes. HOW CONVENIENT. 😛
@bigzaphod
The person who switches off stuff at the end of the day included the router?
it was so hard to see them through the wildfire smoke
On a clear liquid diet to prep for surgery tomorrow.
Also cooking a massive pot of mango chicken so I have leftovers after surgery. #struggle
@mwl hang in there and good luck
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Dumpster Fire Pin. What a funny coincidence, "The horrors persist, but so do I" also happens to be my email signature at work.
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@lowqualityfacts Is that a dumpster or an inceltruck?
if this datacenter is a-rockin', don't come a-knockin' 🎶
Think of the environmental impact of all the cigs smoked afterward.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
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.
@mattblaze & that only applies to being tried anyway, right? The equivalent trial is in the Senate
@Simplicator it doesn’t apply to ANYTHING about impeachment. It’s not a criminal proceeding.
@Humpleupagus @bajax @sun my taxes should go towards getting me medicine for free and not to israel
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