TheSpookiestUser

People that don’t check what community a post came from on their home feed and just upvote it if they like it.

Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It’s very easy to miss sometimes

the smell of heavily chlorinated water. i used to spend a heck of a lot of time at the pool when i was a kid, and where i live now there aren’t nearly as many pools, so it’s not something encountered often anymore.

Reminds me of a lion’s pelt, all it needs is a mane

I hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.

The difference is in obscurity and vanity. Everyone online knows who Musk is, people outside Reddit (and even those on Reddit, some of them) don’t know who Spez is. The scale is different, and so are the severity and publicness of the negative changes. Like hell, a total site rebrand is a pretty noticeable thing.

EDIT: Case in point, everyone refers to him as Spez instead of his name, Steve Huffman.

I missed this one a lot

For the future, [email protected]

If true: Well, that’s the end of that platform I guess. Shame, I liked that there were so many alternatives cropping up.

There’s a lot of types of bigotry and other general nastiness that are not covered by that.

Normally I would not be so nitpicky with language but if multiple admins were removed / quit over it, that’s pretty suspect.

Fair enough, I didn’t know that.

I agree. Some of the alternatives to Reddit are vehemently against mobile apps (ahem, tildes), so I doubt those will ever take off.

Didn’t the RIF dev just release an app for Tildes?

Is the large amount of users actually the reason for the downtime? I thought it was coordinated attacks.

We sure don’t want em here, either

Credit where it’s due, Reddit was pretty good at coming up with novel ideas for social experiments for a few years (which also drove engagement, not coincidentally).

If I were to come up with Place-but-not, for the fediverse and Lemmy specifically, I would do it like this:

The canvas would start very small and divided into plots, with each plot “owned” by a user. The user who owns a plot can determine the pallete to be used in their plot, can whitelist / blacklist other users on their plot, and has a reduced cooldown on placing pixels inside their plot. They are the admin of their plot, basically, which is to mimic an instance.

When every pixel of the canvas has been covered at least once or a certain amount of time has elapsed, it would expand with new auto-generated plots randomly assigned to users from among those who have placed a pixel. Plots could be regular squares or other irregular shapes. The most inactive plots could be blanked and reassigned to a new owner after a time.

In this way, users would have to work together to make bigger art on the canvas or seek out a spot willing to cooperate with their art. You’d see alliances of plots, users making art around an uncooperative plot, hostile plots get ganged up on, hands-off plot owners allowing anything on their plot, and all sorts of shit like that that makes social experiments like this interesting. You’d likely still need top-tier admin intervention to remove hate symbols and the like.

Anyone who uses the word woke can be disregarded.

The second sentence is the response to your first sentence.

You seem to misunderstand.

I’m cool with communists. I’m not cool with tankies.

No, I just don’t tolerate tankies. Just as I assume we both don’t tolerate fascists?

Agree, they should both be blocked

Could it have something to do with their post announcing intent to federate trying to both-sides the Russian invasion of Ukraine? https://www.hexbear.net/post/280770 (not even getting into the comments there)

Personally I’d be cool with defederation from lemmygrad too, for the same reason.