Most of it is contained to specific forums, there's just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.
The more time I spend here the more I'm realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.
It'll all die down anyway, to a degree there's just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I'd avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it's being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.
That article is dirt, it makes wild accusations purely based on not understanding how the Irish legislative process works, or more likely assuming it's readership doesn't. Its not going to do any good here because it reads like something a nutter would put together when you do have at least the gist of the system.
If you actually want to have an impact share things more in line with the iccl statement and if you're Irish talk to your local politician, that noyb article doing the rounds will do nobody any favours.
I assume they moved there after the first model t rolled off the production line. Over 80% of the world don't have a car, there is significant overlap with rural people in that.
As I have already said, improve infrastructure, improve public transport, get off your lazy arse and walk more then 5 seconds from your front door.
You don't say you're American but it's so obvious you are, being incapable of functioning without a car isn't normal it's kind of pathetic
Yes, those are the two sole options, cars and genocide. Fucking idiot. Have you heard of a bus?
No country in the EU is a totalitarian dictatorship either we've worked out busses and footpaths, it's not hard, your cities and counties still have planning offices, public servants decide these things. It makes little difference to the cost or scope of projects to design things so people can use them.
I think you're grossly underestimating how expensive dragging your heels on climate is going to be for everyone. Changing infrastructure now is cheap in comparison. Your economy is going to be fucked by climate change regardless of what china does, there is no prisoners dilemma.
Yes, build the damn infrastructure, now. It's not about perfect it's about working toward a minimum viable output and electric cars miss that mark.
It's not enough. Cutting transport emissions by two thirds is simply not enough. We can change planning now to make it hurt slightly less when we have to get rid of cars or we can continue the current path and leave a load of people stranded when the rug gets pulled, which do you think sounds better?
I don't know what OP used but I used Power Delete Suite
I never said we need to be perfect, you're dismissing the argument to save your feelings.
I said we need to drive less. It's not hard, it's not perfect, and it's the centre of most European planning efforts to mitigate climate change.
Electric cars are and industry solution to an industry problem, they're not a reasonable response to climate change
Yes, we're seeing the same chart. Now add a bicycle, or replace 60 stupid little Tesla's with a bus.
We are not at a point where electric car ownership is a viable solution, we're at least 20 years too late. Even the manufacturing cost us too great.
I don't think they want that, they have a month before they have to come back with something or you can escalate it to a supervising body. Imagine getting taken to court because redditors flooded your GDPR response process
A lot of the time they're niche specific, I would have found out about a lot of smaller sites from reddit and then just switched to searching them directly once I had a better understanding.
e.g. every second post in retro games subs was always "how much is this worth" and the answer is use pricecharting.com, analog camera subs or analog repair invariably reference butkus, there's heaps of small archives, wikis and old community forums out there for anything you can imagine.
If there's specific niches you're interested in maybe ask in those forums here, they might be able to point you somewhere.
It's not great is it? Reasonably we just need less vehicles
New response just dropped
It not being visible is a relatively recent online phenomenon that I think has lead to some negative feedback loops on social media.
I treat upvotes and downvotes like I used to treat thumbs up, or thanks, or kudos or whatever on much older platforms; a way to say "I agree" or "I disagree" without adding a crap comment that doesn't add to discussion.
If you're using it as a way to vote on what other people get to see that's a reddit thing and this ain't reddit.
Some analysts are waiting to see a withdrawal before they actually believe one is happening.
I'm willing to bet that they don't actually know when a sub went private, just whether or not it currently is. I also would not be surprised if the emails are automated but going out in batches to spread the workload dealing with replies.
Had anyone else completely forgotten about the time u/spez got caught editing user comments?
For those who don't know, retrogaming on Reddit was a labour of love, there is a multireddit, m/retrogamingnetwork that networks over 60 subreddits under one banner giving the audience, banner, and reach of a big subreddit to some very small and niche spaces.
I bopped onto the main subreddit to grab their discord link for https://sub.rehab/ and was amazed to see the sub open. There's a stickied post from "your new head mod" - they've made some changes already, ones that would stir debate if the userbase was still there to know about it: Reveddit Link
To quote the post opener:
> > > First of all, you all know me probably at this point, but I’m Chalupacabra. We’re in the process of readjusting the mod team, so it’s not fully set up yet, but I’m your new head mod. It’s a process that’s been in the works for a bit now, I’m sure you’ve probably noticed some of the changes the team and I have put together to try to mix things up a bit based on what y’all told us you were interested in seeing. > >
And if there's any doubts as to what the community "were interested in seeing" we had voted 88% in favour of a total blackout.
On the one hand I'm glad I don't have anything to miss on reddit anymore, I'm not interested in being part of communities run by people more interested in themselves than anyone else, but it's sad to see something that should have died peacefully be zombified instead.
Currently deleting 7 years of my time on Reddit across 4 accounts, holding back just the gilded comments to edit as a final fuck you.
At least for me, the API changes are just a final straw and something which mobilised enough redditors to make other platforms viable alternatives. Here are the reasons I won’t be going back:
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Admin power is misused. I’ve seen memes [Removed] where the only logic to their removal is if you’re a little bit of a bigot and are butthurt about it, or if you want to appeal to advertisers over actual people. In general, admin decisions seem less about people and more about business, how else do you wind up with a site where subs that exist to hurt people or put them down thrive openly but NSFW subs wind up a topic of debate or censure? Make no mistake this will go the YouTube direction, where things like LGBT content are determined not safe for advertisers. Having this in the context of a site known for cradling the manosphere and the incel movement and you can see where the dumpster fire is headed. Spez has no backbone so neither will Reddit.
The Advertising
It is so bad, my previous point is largely an issue so Reddit can be an advertising platform and then they fail at being an advertising platform. Other social media that relies on advertising revenue rewards advertisers for honest, accurate, and well targeted ads. Reddit has their audience opt in to their interests, how hard can it be to serve a fair quantity of relevant adverts? Reddit is the cheapest platform to advertise on and it’s treated like a big old billboard. The average CTR on Reddit ads is a third of that on Facebook. If they could manage to target even the right country half the time they could make more money showing less ads, and ads people at least don’t mind seeing.
This is assuming advertising is necessary at all, what’s interesting here, and with the federated internet in general, is that we can have communities that aren’t expected to be profit centres and try out new ways of financing platforms that centre users and not the advertising industry.
The bots
I’ve been on Reddit for at least 6 or 7 years, and it feels like outside the news and current affairs subs, there’s been very little new for about three of them. The place has been suffocated by repost bots. Even now, if you dare to look, you’ll see a lot of Reddit’s current activity is coming from unaware bots on dead subs reposting whatever hit r/all in 2020.
The most blatant bots are porn accounts, spamming their dead eyed content indiscriminately across the platform, spare a moment for the poor users of r/analog.
These issues can be improved on by cutting off access to the API, though I don’t doubt they would just rely on web scrapers without it. Users have already made bots to flag the bots, is Reddit less capable than it’s userbase? Or are they relying on bots to keep the site in a mundane content loop?
The experience
I’m really enjoying using alternative sites now Reddit has given them a userbase. It feels like the internet used to feel before it got carved up between the “platforms” for advertising revenue and I love it. The major points above are massive contributors to user experience but so are the users here, Lemmy and Raddle, the ethos and terms of service for these spaces and small design choices that centre users.
TLDR: I’m deleting my Reddit account(s), not because I want Apollo, but because the alternatives are better.
