Reddit moderators doing a 31 billion dollar corporation's bitch work for free.
Not only that but they're protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they'll make in their entire lifetime.
Surely this would be the Reddit admins banning the subreddit? I can't imagine the mods banning their own subreddit, if that's even possible.
for free
I absolutely assure you that Reddit is getting paid for this shit. Spez doesn't lift a finger without a string attached.
they’re protecting the interests of people who make more money in a single year than they’ll make in their entire lifetime
They're the loyal dogs of the corporate elite because they get the scraps thrown from the table. And when you've got a $25T table, those are some very nice scraps.
I'll probably get downvoted for this but I feel like Lemmy is like the salty friend who can't get over their ex and gets off on the issues going on in their life without them.
It's not weird or particularly unhealthy to look back at the person you were close to, but betrayed you, and realize that all of your interactions with them were actually them being an asshole, and the people who still support them are assholes too. Nor is it particularly unhealthy to have a bit of schadenfreude about the suffering of those who chose the asshole over you, while hopefully still having some sympathy and hope that they escape.
It's how I feel about Taylor swift fans, at least.
Not to be rude or anything, but it sounds like you've got an unhealthy relationship with social media. I still use reddit for the subreddits I'm interested in, I don't read other subreddits anymore just because the content is bad. Like I don't care about what reddit does or what Lemmy does, if I don't enjoy it, I'll leave, it's that simple.
You don't have to commit to anything, you are also allowed to enjoy the communities of reddit, even if you feel like Reddit did you wrong. It's not worth spending your energy on something you can't control. Reddit is shit, that is the only reason why I only check in once a week or something, and to be frank those communities are dying if they aren't already dead.
For me it's only about if I enjoy it and that includes how it's being run. But anyways things tend to become bad when they grow large, I will probably spend less time with Lemmy when it has become bigger. And then I'll have find another social media platform.
It's not that simple. People want to participate where communities are, some are still largely on reddit. There's also the free labor active submitters do regarding submissions, and they decide on what platform they participate in.
People want to participate where communities are, some are still largely on reddit.
So much of the community atmosphere of the site has been undercut and replaced by automated accounts that generate content from historical human conversations. Like, straight up, whole content threads get lifted and shifted between posts to create the illusion of participation. If you've been on the site for a while, its downright surreal.
Between that and the militant banning of anyone who isn't an empty-headed twit or a reflexive cheerleader, there's very little human activity left on the site to speak of. You're not in a community, you're in a graveyard. Most of the people you're talking to are digital ghosts.
There’s also the free labor active submitters do regarding submissions
Less and less by year. Again, it can't be stressed how much of Reddit is entirely automated. A handful of accounts, often directly or indirectly managed by the source of the content, are doing the lion's share of the posting and commenting. Real human interaction is being minimalized. Reddit's real money isn't in posters anymore, its in lurkers. You're supposed to look, not touch.
Ehh, more like were are all hanging out at a local bar and the owner all of a sudden got a case of assholeism. Started going fucking nuts, screwing with food/drink quality and availability, started fucking over the servers and bartenders. We hate him and want all the good people to get out and the place to burn to the ground.
In this case, the ex is an influential person with millions of friends, so what they do matters.
And horrifically abusive.
Honestly I like these kinds of posts as it lets me know that I made a good choice to not go back to Reddit. Plus I can show these to people I know who still use Reddit which might push them away as well.
It has calmed down a lot compared to June 2023
It's honestly a big part of why I don't spent as much time here. Half the posts are just complaining about what Reddit/Elon are doing.
Most of the posts about Reddit are on the dedicated community.
They get usually downvoted to oblivion anywhere else, you're not the only one feeling that way.
Musk is another story, but unfortunately he seems to be in too many news. You can always filter his name in your app or web client like voyager (https://vger.app/)
Brian Thompson was a mass murderer who deserved to die, as are his peers
Reddit has long ago passed the tipping point between content and commercial interest. They're only interested in being profitable, safe, and inoffensive for marketing partners. The life has gone out of it, it's just a product now.
It has NEVER been a real place.
I was there from day zero... to give some context I mailed spez his own source code when his server was misconfigured for VERBOSE error reporting. This was when he was trying to program a user registration system.
The very first conversations had on Reddit, and I'm including myself in this, were all squabbling about useless horseshit.
Reddit has always been a shitshow. Bacon, narwhals, and so forth to convince people that there's some kind of community there, when there is not and never has been.
At least they shot themselves with the API changes, because before that a lot more people had trouble seeing what they had become.
Posting violent content? Aren't there literally gore subreddits over there where you can watch people get tortured?
If the subreddit for fat shaming got banned, I highly doubt gore subreddits still exist lol
r/ActualPublicFreakouts has shootings and decapitations uploaded there daily.
It's the current r/WatchPeopleDie
Keep zooming to that grave Reddit
Im surprised r/freeluigi and r/luigemangionejustice havent been banned they banned r/mariosbro and r/freeluigi2 as well as some others. Our corporate overlords are pissing their $5,000 pairs of designer slacks. And look at the loosers on r/fuckluigimangione it would be funny if it wasn't so sad https://imgur.com/gallery/rbqSckH
That one infamous lemmy troll who created all those troll police communities like ThankThePolice and that one rdrama satellite community is also a mod at fuckluigimangione.
Our corporate overlords are pissing their $5,000 pairs of designer slacks.
They aren't. This is run of the mill behavior.
The response that they are pressuring their owned puppets to start a special 911 style emergency line for the 1% says otherwise
Should someone try to point them to here?
Good luck... reddit admins/mods don't like lemmy references. Only attempt if you don't mind losing your account or permabans from whatever sub you post to.
I have mentioned Lemmy several times on /r/RedditAlternatives without any issue
- https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1hmf2uy/is_alternative_social_media_a_series_of_small/m4odk1u/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1hk6965/found_a_reddit_alternative_thats_kind_of_great/m3f9rsd/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fmuk7o/post_to_address_the_usual_criticism_about_lemmy/
Of course on other subs that would indeed get you in trouble
I mean.....yes. eve if Luigi never existed, yes.
I do it regularly on /r/RedditAlternatives for Lemmy as a whole.
Maybe someone from !luigimangione@lemmy.world could create a post on /r/RedditAlternatives to promote this specific community
Great idea, go ahead and post in that subreddit
Wait a minute
They could always try koalanging the name, i.e. r/GreenMario or similar
That's more algospeak though, innit?
They had one called mariosbro but it was banned.
Nintendo must be fuming
mfw that's this sub
As much as I want to say that Reddit's rules against glorifying violence are cut & dry, I cannot blame anyone who sympathizes with Luigi Mangione especially when the system is outright crooked. I get the frustration when nearly every Reddit post about Luigi ends up getting locked because the mods are either overwhelmed with or are too fucking lazy to moderate comments (I theorize the latter.) Brian Thompson has been responsible for far more deaths due to him employing AI algorithms that have trebled UnitedHealthcare's rejection of insurance claims, but the difference is that the American people are expected to put up and shut up with his antics. You can't vote with your wallet because good luck suing a corporation that brings in twelve figures of annual revenues for a wrongly-denied claim. Nor can you literally vote with your ballot paper because both the Democrats and Republicans are corporate bootlickers that have enabled widespread anti-consumer behaviour in the first place.
Not saying that Brian deserved what he got, but these are the actions of someone who had been brought to the end of their tether by the health insurance system.
Things can go either way for Luigi. He faces the very real possibility of jury nullification, but also, maybe the justice system is going to mess with the legal process so much that he's gonna end up going through what is effectively a kangaroo court.
On the subject of Reddit, throwing Ellen Pao under the bus and bringing back that Tintin-looking cuck as CEO is probably the worst thing Reddit's board has done. Spez has been nothing but poison for the site.
Not saying that Brian Thompson deserved what he got
I am
Brian Thompson deserved far worse.
Spez getting shot with bullets with
/r/jailbait,subreddit,moderatorwritten on them when?Didn't the r/jb mods just add him as a gag? I didn't think he instilled himself or actively moderated it.
Lots of reasons to hate on spez, but being added as a mod to an ephebophile sub against his will isn't one.
Remind me who the CEO of Reddit is?
Some sort of spaz. I think.
Some sort of spud, maybe?
I heard he was a greedy little pigboi.
I think CEO should be reserved for individuals with a business plan (ex: scam your customers by telling them you'll help them out in need, then instead just let them die -- that's a business plan). Reddit doesn't have a business plan.
Let's call this guy the Napoleon of reddit. Got kicked out once for sucking. Came back. Sucked more. Plus he's short.
u/spez, erstwhile moderator of r/jailbait, a sub that would regularly feature CSEM until it got the site negative media attention. Fuck him.
The chance of that being setup by the actual Luigi Mangione is 0%.
Other than that, nothing about this says anything about why it was banned. If they were posting beheading videos with CEO faces plastered on top and details on where those CEOs live and go to work, it would be weird if they didn't get banned.
Not on Reddit, not on Lemmy, not on any social media that is at least halfway decent.
It's censorship. If I in theory set up a Lemmy instance to share CP, what could Lemmy do? maybe release a statement they don't like that content.
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