Reddit changes the rules to make sitewide protests much more difficult. Moderators will now have to get admin approval when switching a subreddit from public to private or when adding a NSFW tag.
  • comador @lemmy.world
    64·
    3 months ago

    Enshitificication of Reddit continues!

    The beatings will continue until community morale increases… and of course: profits.

  • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
    516·
    3 months ago

    All 10 of us here stand united on this most exquisite and elevated of horses!

    It’s so weird to be content with/amused by this situation. Feels like Alexandria was just built nextdoor, fisherman have started to arrived with massive boats and high-quality nets, and here we are, the old fishermen pushed off our original fishing site yet full of glee that we don’t have to pay taxes in Alexandria. It’s like, this isn’t really a successful venture, right? We’re not really thriving like we were in the past, are we? We’re likely never going to get anything like that back either, huh

    Idk, maybe my values just don’t give me enough internal validation yet, to feel good about it or something. The only consolation I see really is that I don’t think the time spent online is very worthwhile anyway. What I liked most was the community but it’s become clear most of that was never real

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      All 10 of us here stand united on this most exquisite and elevated of horses!

      It’s like, this isn’t really a successful venture, right? We’re not really thriving like we were in the past, are we? We’re likely never going to get anything like that back either, huh

      It’s always the people with 0 post submissions complaining about this. It’s always someone else’s responsibility to create communities and find the content to fill them and it’s never enough. Just imagine how much more active the Lemmy side of the Fediverse would be if everyone submitted one article, meme, video, or podcast, etc. a day in some niche community of their choosing. But hey, I guess shitting on the opportunity we have to start fresh is a lot easier than committing to contribute to the slow but organic growth of another news aggregate.

      • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
        33·
        3 months ago

        I shit on the opportunity? Dude, I don’t think you understood my comment at all, especially since you got so defensive in your response.

        Let’s try and take a breath and relax. Let me know if something I said hurt/disrespected you and I’ll address it since it wasn’t my intention to offend anyone.

        First, I visit Lemmy daily and comment all the time. Am I not a true Lemmy user because I don’t post? I personally think that’s a silly thing to say.

        Second, I never even mentioned the posts here being the issue. You just assumed that, dude. My issue is entirely the lack of people. Sorry that wasn’t clearer in my what I wrote

        Finally, if I’m honest, I don’t think this place is better than reddit. It may one day be but I don’t think it is yet. I hope I’m allowed to have that opinion here.

        Something else I think is that the demographic of the userbase is a lot more similar/less diverse than it ever was on reddit. Again, I’m not even saying that’s a good or bad thing. They’re just realities we should try and understand. It could be both. I just find the hate for reddit to be over the top and I think it clouds people’s view of reality. You’re welcome to disagree. We could even have a nice chat about it!

        I’m of the belief that if we want this place to be better than reddit we need to truly try and welcome people we disagree with into the community so everyone feels like they’re included even if they’re not always posting or commenting or even visiting or whatever. ;)

        I mean, maybe I should just ask, are people here mainly for a defederated social network - and what does that mean to you? I’ve kinda always been looking for a good healthy community - I hear the Internet used to be way better at that before - and I felt like reddit showed that their communities were fake and ripe for turning on themselves. This place seems identical in that way.

        Sorry if I could’ve communicated that better in this message or the last one

  • GreyYeti@lemmy.world
    111·
    3 months ago

    Sounds like something you would do if you were about to remove a very popular feature like old reddit in the coming months.

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Adding insult to injury, Reddit recently struck gold by licensing its content to train AI models.

    Oh, that’ll be fun, considering how much of the content on Reddit is simply bots making reposts.

  • nemonic187@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 months ago

    Well they don’t want to hurt the feelings of the nazis they protect. Keep reminding them that 400 thousand Americans died in WW2 to give us the right to punch nazis in the face.

    • Magister@lemmy.world
      161·
      3 months ago

      dunno, for 16 months now, the only time I went there was after a google search and the answer was in a reddit thread… There is 15+ years of answers to various obscur topics and all, “unfortunately”

      • dustyData@lemmy.world
        19·
        3 months ago

        They’re starting to get stale though. Sometimes yes, there will be a 15+ years old thread that’s still relevant, but there will also be so many cases that the latest post is 2+ years old and no longer applicable or outdated.

        • marron12@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          And the newer threads (from the last 1-2 years) often just aren’t that helpful. Lots of people who don’t know what they’re talking about, or comment just to say they have the same problem.

          I can usually get a helpful answer by trying a couple search engines or just fighting with Google, but it takes longer than it should sometimes.

  • hahattpro@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    I ditched Reddit when Reddit suspended all my clone on same phone. I make clone for privacy issues.