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    reddit is transforming itself from a social media platform into a history lesson at this point. I’d say don’t feel guilty if you still browse reddit at all, but don’t be shocked when it’s gone either.

    the attitude and behavior of the company towards the community is what’s going to finish it off more than anything.

    there’s so other ways they could’ve monetized reddit without causing all this, but they seem hell bent on being obtuse. to that, i shrug and move on.

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      Honestly I’ve been addicted to reddit for several years, and it even had negative consequences for my life. When I was depressed I just used reddit all day and became obsessed with the subreddit moderated. I deleted that account and now I’m in a much better place but that constant urge to open reddit is still there.

      Before July 1 my reddit usage was around 2 hours every day, now it’s been 0 for 5 days.

      So I’d like to Thank Reddit admins for this.

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        I used reddit for 11 years, founded multiple subreddits, and was a head mod on even more. I had over 150,000 karma. I spent hours a day for over decade in that shithole. I recently walked away. My account still lives but it is no longer a mod of any sub and I have deleted every single comment I ever made. I struggle every day to stay off reddit.

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        Happy for you friend! I also went from a few hours a day to nothing. Wasn’t trying to improve myself, it was just out of sheer rage at how things were being done over there. Any time I would log in I would feel self hatred and just end up making lengthy comments about spez being an asshole.

        Question, have you tried replacing the hobby? I’ve found hiking and writing - (writing lyrics/other things as I hike/walk) to provide even more enjoyment than I was getting online 24/7

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        i liked reading discussions and learning things from lurking reddit but never felt compelled to participate in discussions. now that i got my lemmy account figured out my desire to be on there is even less.

        for some reason i actually want to be a part of the fediverse community. maybe it rekindles some of that old internet spirit for me.

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          the only thing I miss about reddit is how much more diversity it had. cause let’s face it, there just isn’t as much content here. it’s also how I stayed caught up on current events

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            reddit certainly had a plethora of communities. the fediverse can get there too.

            it’s going to be more hands on than reddit. we can’t wait for things to come to us like products on a conveyor belt. the content is in the discussions.

            as long as people continue to participate, it will grow. stay positive.

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              that’s a good point. I’ll probably do my part and post a bunch just to fill stuff up a little more

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        I got banned for wrong-think (essentially talking back to a sub mod) and it greatly improved my mental health not being able to call out the absolutely driveling imbeciles that populate reddit. It just made me not care anymore.

        And yes reddit admins will ban you if you respond to sub mods to complain

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          They ban permanently for all kinds of bs. Felt like walking on eggshells at that place.

          Didn’t help that I wasn’t 100% “left” - ironically I did lean left but if you’re not 100% emphatically regurgitating all of the talking points they’re currently recycling they gang up on you, mass report, call for mods, twist words etc.

          Last month a mod flipped out and called me a Nazi bc I commented that it’s bogus that mods blanket ban everyone that stumbles on and comments any sub that they dissaprove of.

          Their logic was that if I comment on a conservative sub (Nazi?) Then that absolutely makes me a Nazi and there’s absolutely no grey area or context.

          That seems to be what most of the communities in some subs is like as well. If you’re not high fiving them, you’re shooting at them.

          I don’t like it… I miss the old days of the internet, sure we all argued and shit but everyone at least had their little factions. Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don’t want Republicans there.

          I get why but it sucks feeling like I don’t belong on either side. I’m apolitical, which in itself has sparked a dozen redshit arguments and accusations. Can’t say “apolitical” you’re just secretly a centrist if you do. Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that. Can’t sympathize with a single “red” point of view bc you’re a Nazi.

          Ugh.

          Cringetopia (the sub) branched off and made a website. Loved that place. Unfortunately the subs own userbase hates the chAnge and boycotted the site, also running smear campaigns and bs saying the site was only in it for the money via ad revenue even though the site owners had paid out of their own pockets for the servers and there wasn’t a single ad…

          Loved that site :(

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            Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don’t want Republicans there.

            It is interesting that this is your experience, but I can say that this is objectively not true. Especially if you’re on social media and not logged in, the content has a far right bias, there’s often at least one recommended video which goes in that direction. About twitter was one study that twitter systematically preferred right-wing content… before Elon bought it. And I mean, everyone knows about Facebook.

            The fascist Bolsonaro (he literally said the dictatorship was Brazil’s best time and that its only mistake was to not torture enough; you gotta agree he’s a literal fascist) movement just won the presidential elections because of Facebook and social media. It is a massive system driving people especially to a far-right extreme.

            What I can say about “Can’t disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that.” is well… I mean, yeah, if you disagree with both, both probably won’t like that haha. But there is one problem to disagree with both sides if one side of them is e.g. literally trying to eradicate trans people, trying to deny them their existence, discriminate, etc., and also literally trying to undermine democracy and overthrow elections and is actively restricting who is able to vote, and the other one… isn’t.
            I can understand if someone financially benefits from Republicans, or is business-friendly or such, but criticising both as in that both are the same amount of bad is just wrong and harmful, because we just got to the point where only one side got completely off all norms and in an antidemocratic and borderline genocidal.
            (And for the record: I’m not a US-American. I am certainly not a fan of the US Democratic party. And I do think that of course it’s good to criticise everyone who does bad stuff, and to point that out.)

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              I don’t support Republicans going against trans people or messing with abortion, to be honest I think they should keep their nose out of our personal choices and leave us be.

              But I don’t like the left either.

              It’s not “left vs. right” - that’s just how it’s framed to us. The U.S government is fucked up on all levels and both sides have done heinous things and kept us divided throughout history.

              I truly believe that’s all the two party system is, division. Ever listened to “Binaural beats”? Where they play for example a lower frequency in one ear, but a higher frequency in the other. I don’t remember the exact method so pardon if I’m Rusty but basically the end result is we hear and are tuned to the frequency in between the two, low and high, sounds.

              To me that’s what the two party system reminds me of. One party outrages and destroys certain liberties or whatever. The other party fights back and the result is whatever they want it to be.

              I just want to do away with all of it. Remove every part of the government that isn’t directly benefitting our quality of life and start over.

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              If you view reddit in incognito or on a VPN, the front page absolutely, 100 percent has the most hard far left slant possible. Half the front page posts are from whitepeopletwitter which has the collective personality of a meth-ed up AOC crossed with Stalin

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                Well, I was generally talking about social media, and for Youtube, Facebook, Twitter it was all the other side. To be fair, I do not know about Reddit (haven’t read any studies about it and are personally not enough in that sphere), so I could imagine it to be the outlier. Besides that, this comment does not respond to any of my arguments or talking points.

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            Not left? Banned. Not far left? Banned. Not authleft? Banned.

            I was banned from subreddits more often for opposing the open advocation of totalitarianism than anything else.

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              I guess some of that has come over here based on your comment scores, but at least your comments aren’t being removed 🤷‍♀️ I haven’t been downvoting anything here based on disagreement cause a) I think discouraging people from sharing their opinions here will kill the site, even if you don’t like their opinions and b) I think it’s wrong anyway.

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                I hope the extreme polarization and just general toxicity doesn’t last here. I get that Reddit is perfectly designed to split people into tribes, and I hope that’s not true of this site as well.

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                  I agree entirely. Just because I might not agree with someone on their politics doesn’t mean we can’t have a civil discussion, especially regarding apolitical topics

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        I put a time management app on my phone for that. After 5 minutes, reddit was blocked for an hour. Max time on app, 30 minutes a day.

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      It’s a shame because there’s so much good stuff on the site. (So much bad stuff, too, don’t get me wrong.) All that stuff is looking more and more likely to go up in smoke.

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    I’m disappointed how few subreddits are daring to call their bluff, or put their full weight behind migrating. It’s clear they actually aren’t able to replace moderators that easily.

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      Seriously. I never want to hear how hard it is to mod a subreddit with existing mod tools again. They’ve rolled over for spez (which is their right) and they don’t get to complain about it anymore.

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    It’s amazing how fast Reddit went from my favorite place to be online to a trash heap

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      Right? The first few days I was worried it just wouldn’t be the same, but the slower upload of content here has made me browse when I want to without over browsing endlessly. The less active comment sections means I can interact with more people without being buried…it’s just better. And I’m excited to see it grow

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        I think I’ve been afraid to comment on Reddit because I assume no one will read it or I won’t have anything novel to say. But I definitely agree that I like the smaller community here

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          I’m afraid to comment here because everyone will see it!

          “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” ― Seinfeld

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        Quality has been dramatically better here than Reddit has been for many years. Finding people actually discussing the post in the comments is rare on Reddit, you have to sift through endless lines of off topic puns and memes being promoted by bots for karma farming. The goal of comments on Reddit is to be funny, not interesting or useful. The fediverse is more like Reddit eight or nine years ago, when they were figuring out their control algorithms, building their own bot network to game their own site (remember the subreddit where the reddit-built bots used to exclusively talk with each other for practice? I wonder what those bots are doing today…), and learning how to control the flow of information on their page while also finally making some things more stable.

        I’m really curious if any parts of the fediverse can avoid the same pitfalls that Reddit eagerly jumped into. It’s probably doubtful since once the advertisers get here, greed will win. It always does. But maybe.

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          This has been my biggest complaint. Wanna read the discussion? Be prepared to dig for it. It’s awful.

          The largest thing I’ve noticed right now is there’s almost no new content. Like at all. There was some repeating but not like right now.

          I’m a mod and almost none of the small subs I mod for are transitioning off of reddit as yet.

          I do need to learn to mod here…

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        Quality over quantity everytime for me.

        On top of that, I feel far more incentive to comment, upvote, and just generally engage here.

        Overall this feels like a less hostile environment, without the clickish groupthink that had an army of bots or trolls out to downvote you.

        People have mentioned the higher complexity of getting set up on instances as a barrier to entry for the masses. I say wonderful. I’ll take a small community of diverse, engaged people over the mobs of span, trolls, and parrots.

        Leaving reddit for lemmy feels like finding a nice person who cares after being in along abusive relationship. Never realised how bad it was, or how good it could be.

        Is it temporary? Who knows, but I’d rather spend my time making this into what I want then ever looking back.

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          Yeah, it’s nice to feel like I’m contributing something as opposed to trying to muscle my way into a conversation that doesn’t need 10,000 of the people who are commenting, commenting.

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            “This!” - 1.4k votes

            [Exact same comment being parroted, but with a much more extreme fervor about killing people who disagree] - 600 votes

            “Wait. That’s not even what the article says. We shouldn’t be jumping to conclusions.” - “You have been permanently banned from large subreddit.”

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        Amen to that! I’m not a super prolific poster here either, but compared to reddit I’m WAY more active, and it feels mre fun too. In 15 years on reddit I have only made 2 threads as far as I can remember, but on Lemmy (and Squabbles) I’ve been sharing my house plants recently and it feels great!

        Yes, the community is much smaller, but also much kinder,and I the average age feels higher here too (I have zero data on it, but just judging by the writing style it feels like there’s a whole bunch of people roughly my age (40+) around these parts).

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          Yeah I definitely have the tendency to over estimate how old the people I’m talking to online are, but I agree that everyone here feels more like an adult lol

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    Reddit are past the point of no return for me. They could reverse all their API changes but I’m not going back. They’ve show their true colours.

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    Reddit is slowly dying. Major nerd communities like r/startrek migrated already. And remaining users will soon realize that their feeds are becoming more and more lifeless. Kinda like twitter feels since Elon.

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    The final warning was enough to cause the moderators for r/Military—a forum partly devoted to helping veterans—to stop operating as a NSFW subreddit. “We are now stuck in a difficult position as we do not want the community to die,” the moderator team wrote.

    Cowards.

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      I dont know what everyone was expecting. Enduring nonsensical rules, shitty working conditions and incompetent authority figures is about the most military thing there is.

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      Fr. Surprises me that military personnel of all people would be so fragile. Don’t give in. Post “hey we’re moving to Lemmy, see you there” and fucking go. It’s 2023 going to a new site is the easiest thing in the world, it’s not like 1999 where most of the forum would have difficulty doing that…

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      I don’t think that’s fair. People can come here if they want. They can hate Reddit if they want. Let’s not demonize communities that decided to reopen is best for their community. It doesn’t need to be some judgement “Fuck everyone who didn’t come to here”.

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        That’s fair. It still makes them cowards though, word definitions don’t change because we want harmony.

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        It’s cowardly to make a stand against the admins and then just roll over when they tell you to sit down and shut up. Doesn’t matter if it’s Reddit or anywhere else.

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        Agreed. I’m actually really enjoying the filter right now. I mean, I want reddit to fall apart too, but I am more interested in lemmy succeeding, and they are different wants.

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      I mean, they’ve got their priorities right. It’s reddit’s fault that they’re killing their own communities. We should try to reach out in subs like this and help them set up on lemmy.

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      Did you wear the uniform? What are you doing to help prevent the 22 suicides a day among our service members?

      This is what the military subs have had to weigh when making these calls.

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        I have met people who was in the service enough to know the struggle is real.

        It’s just hard to believe that they depend on Reddit for their support system.

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        They can pack it up and move here where they won’t be pushed around like pawns. It’s be pretty easy to leave instructions on how to migrate.

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        I did not, although my father did. It’s pretty grandiose to claim that a subreddit is helping prevent military suicides.

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          Not enough. Still too much stigma attached to behavioral health.

          That’s why there is so much need for additional support from elsewhere.

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        So it’s everyone else’s responsibility to protect people subjected to Israeli wars by the lapdog US government?

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          Another thing I never see anyone in US is talking about: If US veterans need so much help (and they really do), what is happening to people in counties they were fighting against? And those are not only soldiers, but whole families. Everyone ober there has witnessed same shit they did, kids, elders, moms…

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            “Developed” countries see “undeveloped” countries (or whatever euphemism you want to use) as Others. We may be the target of their charity or of their pity sometimes, but we remain a mysterious monolith. I’m reminded of that whenever someone says “The US is [generally something bad] among developed countries”.

            I’m not angry about it. I get it. I still wish it wasn’t that way.

            As trivia, at least one “undeveloped” country has universal healthcare.

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    The only thing reddit cant do it stop people just not using reddit. All these protests really arent that effective as people leaving reddit and going elsewhere (hopefully lemmy tho.)

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    I only go to Reddit now because of one or two forums that don’t exist on here yet, But the more I see stories like this, the more I’m inclined to just say screw it and nuke my account.

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    We should direct everyone on Reddit to Lemmy. Then, (this is copy pasted, I’m not a bot) add an option to the third party apps for Lemmy so you can opt in to ads that support your instance and the platform. Force me to use your bullshit app so you can make more money? Fuck you. I came here from Reddit. But I’d opt in to ads to support something that is clearly better.

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        Id prefer some ads. No objection to then in rif, and let’s be honest- everything nsfw or news is an advert in some way.

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          Oh those evil sexy sexy ads…what was I talking about? Oh yeah follow me on onlyfanz, I’m doing a special right now. Boob raitings for only $0.00, Act now while supplies last!

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          I think we should try with opt-in ads.

          And it would be on me if I want to donate money, or via ads or nothing at all.

          After that we can see if that is enough or more active approach is needed.

          We can even have an opt-in for NSFW ads, which would probably make more money. Most of the time I don’t mind, it is just important that I can switch it off.

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              That would be a great way to generate revenue! All of the NSFW posts pretty much anywhere are just ads anyway, can’t see the harm in letting more ads come in.

              Speaking of that, a community/ies made of authentic NSFW content would also be refreshing. I feel like “real” people that would share their NSFW are 1: Always drowned out by 10/10 OF models. They post and see they only had 4 upvotes compared to OF models getting thousands and become disheartened against posting again. Also, would be cool if they, the real, non 1%er NSFW posters could have their own space and an actual chance to be seen. Personally I don’t find the supposed “10/10’s” with fillers, fake boobs etc. Attractive at all. I really don’t.

              Let me see some ACTUAL amateurs. How are you an amateur with an OF raking in thousands+ while using a professional camera setup, someone to film, a team posting your comment etc?

              Who in their right mind considers them as amateurs? Pamela Anderson?

              Super difficult finding “real” people nowadays. Personally, the content I filmed myself of a few exes is 1000× more alluring to me than anything on the major sites bc it’s… real.

              Something about a person doing it for $ instead of just being a perv like the rest of us takes all of the fun out of it for me.

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                Technically amateur generally just means independent in a lot of contexts or not trained. But yeah i get your point, a lot of OF content feels like the porn equivalent of mass produced cheap knives to me. Like i guess its fine for a 20 dollar knife, but my hundred dollar K bar is infinetly nicer and my 10 buck flea market knife made out of a burnt out car body at the flea market is more interesting.

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            my fear is that instances started competing just to gain more money, because the donations are enough to cover the costs(i think was the adin of lemmy.world that said so), maybe if someone pay to the admin their product i guess it’s gonna work

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        Why not both? If you want to support with donating, cool. If you’d rather support by enabling ads, cool. I can see it might be a slippery slope.

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      Why can’t we just pay them with money? I block every ad I can, because everything is better without ads.

      If there is no option for paying outside of using me as a datapoint, I’m going to be a freeloader.

      Also, respectfully to all those here gathered, fuck reddit. It’s over. It doesn’t love us and never did.

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        This is what fucks me off so bad. Tell me what I’m worth as a datapoint, and if I want to pay that directly to be left the fuck alone I should be able to.

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          So much this. I suspect there’s an issue around opt out making the platforms less appealing to advertisers. The people with disposable income to spend opting out of ads, might be exactly the ones advertisers want to reach.

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            That, actually, makes sense, it never crossed my mind.

            More than that, it is trackers on which, probably, no one knows how much is worth.

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        That’s what Reddit Premium was for, which I had. No adverts in return for a monthly fee.

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      I tried to use reddit and their official app for the last two days before today just to see how actually bad it was. It was nice seeing the communities that I had grown to frequent for the last 12 years. However:

      I deleted that shit after the 5th “hegetsus” ad that I saw this morning. Fuck that shit and fuck that shit hard. Like, way to know your audience lmao. Never touching that app again.

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      It doesn’t help our adoption that supposedly pro-fediverse people are purposefully not recommending Lemmy on Mastodon posts because they don’t like a community or some developer that works on lemmy

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      ads gonna make people want to everyone in their instance, and btw the donations are enought to pay of the for the server(as lemmy.world admin said) and a few thousand more just to him

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        i guess the only acceptable is if the admin want to pin some promotion

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          No pinning please, pinned posts on Reddit got out of control and is an eyesore that still pisses a small part of me off, when I have to click or scroll that tiny bit more to get to the content I actually read.

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    It’s a shame how shabbily reddit’s board and u/spez (and his lackeys) have treated reddit’s users and mods. They benefited enormously from free content and hours of unpaid moderation, yet they chose to throw it all away.

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      This screams “Please stop this and go back to doing work for free.” They keep threatening but know they need the free labor.

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        Exactly. And it’s driving me crazy how many mods are caving. Like, I get that you care about the community and want it to continue on, but will it even be the same now that you know how little control you actually have? Will it survive the next insane, profit driven decision Reddit makes and refuses to negotiate on? Just rip the band-aid off now like /r/interestingasfuck and others did and let them remove you. We’ve seen that they can’t actually replace what was lost, so let them try.

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          but will it even be the same now that you know how little control you actually have?

          Some communities weren’t even the same anymore after those 48h protests. And you can basically feel which parts of the community instantly left the moment they realized all that talk about protesting was bullshit and it was purely symbolic.

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          “But if I lose my fragile grip on this iota of power, I’ll have nothing, and I’ll BE nothing. I can’t start over again from nothing!”

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            I strongly believe that that is exactly what is subconsciously going on there. The human mind is addicted to power, no matter which form.

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              I never really thought about it but I totally see which mods were actually protesting and which mods used it to “protest” and add some spice to their mundane non-medieval memes

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                Power over something is appealing to humans. I notice it in myself as well.

                If you look around in general, at all different human communities and situations, you will see how it manifests itself almost everywhere. In the government bureaucrat that lets someone wait just because they can. In the child that takes another child’s toy even though they don’t even want to play with it themselves. In the teenager that participates in mobbing. In the owner that overly scolds their pet. In the politician that doesn’t have any values and just says whatever is necessary to get votes. In the parent that tries to make their child behave in a certain way. In the boss that micro manages their employees. In the community moderator that can ban anyone they please.

                I could keep going.

                Power is a means, but it is very often also just an end. I think it’s really important to be aware of that, because power just for power’s sake is imo one of the most dangerous state of minds one can have.

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                  Oh yeah I probably didn’t articulate my point well enough because I need more coffee but for better or worse power is… well… empowering and there’s both good and bad examples of this. I also think some of the users were too defeatists about it saying we can’t change anything and to that I say, “it’s not about the money changing stuff, it’s about sending a message”. But when that message is r/memes going “oh unm ok we’re gonna protest by making all our memes medieval TAKE THAT REDDIT!! Please don’t remove us.”

                  Looking back I saw which mods used their power for the better to drive a community they cared about and which were more in it for the power

                  Using a game I play r/planetside may not be the best example but it’s a decently niche game. By indefinitely blacking out our toxic little echo chamber ultimately had a ton to lose and very little to gain given the odds of protests succeeding. Given how our community wasn’t massive I’d bet it’s still blacked out. But despite us always flaming each other and developers I think the mods cared becuase they didn’t cave on their community and go “post planetside but add a cat to the corner that’ll show Reddit how mad we are”, no, they shut down and I’m still looking for a stable planetside community but they stuck to their guns

                  I kinda went on a rant and forgot my point was so I’m just gonna end here

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        Them replacing mods is what scares me the most. My subreddit is for advice for stretching piercings. If I continued to protest or even outright deleted my subreddit, and they restored it and replaced the mod team, what quality of moderating should I expect? Like I get it on meme subs, not hard to moderate that sort of content. But I know damn well they aren’t going to get people with experience relative to the more specific subs.

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          You can never delete a subreddit once created. Ever. That’s why many are editing, then deleting, their comments.

          The best you can do is to create a community on Lemmy and invite your redditors to the new community.

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            That’s where we are now, the migration has begun. But now, I’m stuck with a foot on each boat while I spread the word.

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          I get that, and respect it very much. You care about others and the community you’ve helped create. But Reddit is now actively exploiting that care for their own profit. Reddit draws value from your community and the advice it offers others. If that advice is poor then yes, people will suffer, but that’s on Reddit for allowing this all to happen how it has, not you.

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    i’m still using Reddit for porn, but for other topics i already spend more time on Lemmy. the switch is tough, but they definitely can be replaced.

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      Even porn looks more boring, not sure if it’s just me or content really suffered from all this.

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        Gay porn suffered long ago from people just promoting their onlyfans. Annoying af.

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          That happened to all porn, it got disgusting.

          I want to see real people sharing their sexuality, not people faking it for money.

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            It’s interesting, the fakeness in porn is so conspicuous. I wonder if this sense of faking-it-for-money is a component that is actually conditional to viewing pleasure for sadists and misogynists, and maybe it’s an indication that there are more people out there with those predilections than we might like to think.

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        I’ve heard and have no source for this, but most of the bigger porn subreddits were basically run by people who had a ton of money trying to push their own content to the top to generate revenue.

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          Makes sense considering how 99% of the porn accounts had titles such as “WHOEVER LIKES THIS WILL GET SOMETHING FREE IN THEIR INBOX, TRY ME!”

          Like damn, thousands of porn accounts made posts like this. Obviously they all hired spam companies to do it for them but what kind of ad company can’t take the time to even learn the basics about the website they’re advertising on? Really amazed me how few of the accounts seemed to actually be human, and even if human absolutely not the content creators themselves

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      Dude porn was working fine on rif untill like yesterday, i have a moded reddit app but i still refuse to use it. As a side note lemmymsfw is starting to be a good replacement (atleast for me).