2y ago

I definitely think r/gaming has the biggest banger of a privated notice

72 comments

Another subreddit posted the date he said it, which I think added to it - He said it on April 19th of this year - https://www.gq.com/story/steve-huffman-reddit-public-tiktok-ban - that aged poorly very very quickly
- r/agedlikeavocado
  
  You mean m/agedlikeavocado
- I wonder if the author will be contacting him for a follow-up.
  
  I wonder if the author will be contacting him for a follow-up.
  Spez: How dare you record a private conversation showing my hypocrisy?!
If this is how the admins choose to act, so fucking be it. I'll deltree my 12 year old account and never go back. As it stands, the fediverse is already my new home, and the users who decide to remain on reddit can explain to all the new users what the fuck went wrong.
- The only people on reddit who are against the blackout are conservative assholes who hate picket lines. They're going to be the majority of remaining users.
  
  Also the people who say "well I'm not using third party apps so who cares anyway"
  The thing they should care about is how reddit has handled this situation. Imagine what nonsense they'll come up with next if they're willing to turf away some of the oldest and most dedicated users
  
  JUST LIKE TWITTER! I love that the new internet comes in two flavors, "open source hippie (doesn't work well)" and "vaguely fascist (also doesn't work that well tbh)"
  
  It almost feels like that's by design these days.
- I replaced every comment I had with a rant about how Reddit has become corporate shills and none of their actions are about profitability and all about easing corporations with the ability to targeted advertise to users while being openly hostile to all their volunteer labor and users.
  12 years and 75k of comment karma worth.
How are y'all spreading yourself out in the fediverse so far? Right now I'm just browsing the front page of kbin and occasionally check in on my feed in mastodon, but I'm yet to find my "niche" communities.
- I like kbin a lot already too. I like the highly functional feel. It's close enough to Reddit that I hope it draws in more users. I found it a lot more approachable than Mastodon, and "Lemmy" just doesn't have a nice ring to it IMO.
  
  Well this ernest dude seems like he's reacting quickly to criticisms. The NSFW posts were showing full pictures and there was a complaint to have the preview blurred out. Took less than 12 hours for him to implement that so that's a plus
  
  Strangely cozy, isn't it? It's like moving from the big city to a nice cabin in the woods. "Hmm, a bit different, but I could get used to this!"
- I started on Mastodon and switched to Calckey, picked up Pixelfed and was hanging out for a few months. Saw Rexxit was going to happen and hopped on here about a month ago. So I guess I'm not your typical migrant.
- I think it'll take a little while but we'll find our niches. I'm finding a few magazines on kbin.social to be really active in and I also got on mastodon.social. I don't think the latter is for me. I need to figure out a little better how federation works then I'm gonna explore more.
  
  I'm struggling to find content. I saw some news about a sports team I follow, Xbox game, or show I'm watching- I would typically go to reddit, easily find a sub, and all of the content and comments I want. Now when I look on kbin or lemmy or beehaw ( I don't even know the difference), I could be in an instance? where there is isn't Xbox content but maybe another instance has tons of content. It's a bit confusing.
- Jeez, I'm on kbin.social, ramblinreaders (bookwyrm), pixelfed.social, and dmv.community (mastodon). So far I have persuaded 0.0 of my Instagram and Facebook friends to move to ActivityPub instances. :-( Might just be me. I've stopped posting on the facebook except for a quarterly post about Mastodon and I deleted my Twitter. I don't know how fast Insta will reach terminal enshittification, but it seems to be holding on.
- Making accounts all over the place and talking to myself, shouting into the void like I did in social media from like 1996-2010
- There's a general lack of content here - and Ernest has been doing an extremely courageous job of keeping the lights on.
  I guess it's up to us now to start creating content, and improving this site.
- If you're a cat fan, I picked up a few of the more niche cat subs that I enjoyed on Reddit.
  https://kbin.social/m/catloaf
  https://kbin.social/m/floof
  https://kbin.social/m/floaf
  We'd be very happy to see you there! Even more so if you bring content :-)
- Already been here in Fediverse for a while (with Mastodon), but kbin is Vulcan's first link aggregation platform in the fediverse.
  Bumpy start was to be expected but so far a very enjoyable experience, also contributed content to magazines.
- I've made accounts on lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca, requested beehaw.org, and here, but probably going to stick with here for UI reasons plus I like the microblogs for things that don't exactly warrant a post. The Mastodon integration is neat, but I doubt I'll really use it since I never used Mastodon before.
  Probably going to stick around here and Tildes (though that's not the fediverse). Subscribed to a bunch of communities in the various lemmy instances before federation was took down for a bit, so hopefully one niche community grows there. Made one of my own for a relatively niche game I play (it's a decently popular game, but it's definitely niche).
  
  What do you mean federation was taken down for Lemmy? I haven't noticed that.
  EDIT:
  Also wanted to point out that you can sub and communicate and create posts on beehaw.org posts from your lemmy.ml or lemmy.ca accounts. It is clunky, but you just have to go to search page (top right) from your account's home instance, change the type from 'All' to 'Community' and search for the remote community using their format for searching communities (i.e.: !technology@beehaw.org). The search usually returns nothing on the first search if your instance updates it's federated info with the remote instance or there are network errors. So just clear the search and try 'technology' and I have found that returns it.
  KBins search function is a lot better. I have found a lot of other bugs on Lemmy, but you can work around them.
  You can also sub to those lemmy communities from here. but that is a bit more in development than the lemmy to lemmy instance communication.
- One of my biggest challenges is getting the 'front page' to fill up with the kind of thing I'd get on r/all. I think at the moment it only shows posts from the subs I subscribe to. But I can easily see how Kbin could replace Reddit (im not going back).
  
  The reason it seems like that is because this kbin instance (kbin.social) isn't federated right now because of heavy traffic. So you'll only see magazines that were created here. As soon as the restrictions are relaxed you'll see other instances in the default feed. Or you could sign up for a different kbin instance like fedia.io which are currently still federated.
  Even so, the other instances that are working as intended don't quite have that r/all feel yet just because there aren't nearly the same number of users in all of the fediverse as there were on reddit. It'll take time for the content to catch up.
I assume the $$$$'s caused some amnesia and a change of heart for spez. It really is sad to see this message and think about how exciting Reddit was back in the old days. But on the flip side I definitely feel like kbin/fediverse/lemmy is capturing some of that spirit.
'A man has his day in war as in other things; I myself shall be good for it another six years, after which even I shall have to stop. '
Napoleon said this in 1805; in 1812 he invaded Russia, seven years after the quote.
I haven't been reading these messages for the blocked communities. Maybe I should have been.
How long before there are calls for spez to resign? There's no way other people at Reddit are happy with how he's handled this. The product has been gutted, it's probably worth a fraction of what it could have been. What next?
Hopefully spez reads that at some point, probably won't have any effect, but at least he'll see what an asshole he has become.
- Bold of you to assume that Spez actually uses the platform he is "leading".

72 comments