Reddit CEO learns going to war with the internet is a LOSING battle

Personally I'm just enjoying the war.

I think we are just still in the early stages of a breakup lol

Eventually I will get to there but I see it as part of the grieving process for my lost communities for now

Honestly this stuff is pretty important for morale and organization among users. Particularly because reddit is censoring conversation on their site. I don't think it's useful to complain about it at this point.

My NFL team last year gave up its franchise quarterback, and the subreddit basically only talked about the former QB for the entire preseason, and then still talked about it for half the season. Then it died down. And before the protest, he wasn't really talked about all that much.

Reddit is still fresh in people's minds. It will go away. In the early days of reddit a LOT of people talked about digg, but within a few months it just wasn't mentioned much anymore.

A lot of people here spent years on our ex-platform. It's going to take some time to get that out of our system. In the meantime, enjoy the shadenfreude!

To be fair, shitting on reddit for its stupid mistakes is fun.

Why not both?

I'm doing my part in being involved in lemmy to the point I don't miss reddit anymore, tho I'm having fun in seeing how people get so creative in fighting that overblown pig, it's highly entertaining :D

I see both happening here. And neither happens over night. Furthermore, both are okay.

The new niche community is shitting on reddit

it used to be the same on Mastodon back in November during the great migration. everyone was talking about Twitter and Elon. just give it some time.

Or both. Both is good.

I’ve personally started two magazines on kbin.social for communities I walked away from.

Apparently it was like this when the Digg migration happened - give it a few weeks and it'll die down as people get it out of their system

I mean, that's happening too, but this is kind of front of everyone's mind right now.

Submit a couple of interesting links a day somewhere! I joined Reddit when it was just one page of stuff mostly of interest to Reddit staffers and Spez was submitting a non-trivial chunk of links himself. Was much, much smaller than the Fediverse is now. People just keep showing up as time goes on.

We're all still processing this; also, the panicked reaction to the initial exodus was the funnest part about Twitter dying and I suspect the same will be true with reddit.

I’m starting to see cat pictures, I think we’re finally getting there.

I mean, it's not even a week in yet.

It will pass, but in the mean time this and other ex-Reddit content will get the word out…

A lot of casual users may not get what’s going on and see the point of all the protests.

Change "random(0)" to "random(time(0))" so the videos are less easily removed by a bot. time(0) is the number of seconds from January 1, 1970 at midnight, so the random seed keeps changing. It's still be black and white noise but not the same noise as anyone else.

You can change that "225", which is actually 255 in the tweet, to any number smaller than that, but it'll make the noise darker and reduce the randomness of it. The result still has to be between 0 and 255, so you could change it to 12+random(time(0))*243 or something like that if you really wanted to make it no darker than 12.

It'd be great if /r/videos opened and only accepted these.

too bad we can't add this when editing old comments. Though i wonder if a comment has a bigger size if we use the whole 10000 characters

And make sure to use an ad blocker while you do it.

You can also create color noise 🌈:

ffmpeg -f rawvideo -video_size 1280x720 -pixel_format yuv420p -framerate 30 -i /dev/urandom -ar 48000 -ac 2 -f s16le -i /dev/urandom -codec:a copy -t 5 color-noise.mov

Ya this is they type of stuff John loves and I'm sure no matter what he will bring it up first chance he gets when they come back.

How many people checked this persons posts to see if it’s the real Margot Robbie or not? show of hands.

I'm just waiting for the CEO to have to explain they are netting an annual profit and aren't profitable over all yet.

Unless they are actually mismanaging money, they have to be netting profit.

And it's not even about the profit motive, it's about the fundamental way in which he approaches situations with a zero sum game mentality. It's about concentrating power over something as slippery as water, replacing something that works with something shittier BUT that he can control (see Victoria and AMA, or the photo and video hosting instead of continuing with Imgur). It's about regarding with contempt the community that gathered around the site he created.

It's exhausting seeing all these cringy "we're going to win with shitposts" things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.

Despite how quickly trends/content can age on the internet, you shouldn't mistake that for actual transitions in platforms.

There's a ton of logistical and infrastructure-related issues that need to be sorted out, but you're being defeatist if you don't think that just because there haven't been mass migrations within a year, any sort of shift is irrelevant.

Twitter and reddit have incredible momentum and it takes a long time to slow them down.

Just look at how desperate Twitter has been with their advertising - I don't think anyone would say they haven't suffered some incredible damage over the last 8 months

He also said that "let's make it so that text is readable for everyone" - I was dying lmao.

bitchute and voat was always just going to be a place for nazis to go after they get banned since they don't solve any of the problems of the thing they're an alternative to. Still primarily for profit and doomed to enshittification. The fediverse is different because it's an actual solution.

Yewtube is just an instance of Invidious, so it's showing the same video as your link.