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Wow, the pi constant naming inconsistency is terrible.

Welcome. If you mean reddit as in the company, yes. They’ve been trying to make the site more attractive to advertisers in the past couple of years.

Make onerous rules and restrictions. Hold posts for moderation and make them answer questions. Don’t accept the answers. Shadowban regular contributors.

I’d guess they would start saying Hitler was a really good guy.

It seems like they’re worse about it now that they’ve IPOed. Or maybe that was just in the lead up to the IPO.

I would hope that people training AI models would be selective about which subs to include or exclude.

Probably Splez thinks we should be saving our speem and also tanning our testicles like Tucker Carson.

The article is about reddit banning a community for no real reason with no option for recourse. My issue was I thought that was kind of an over the top description.

arranging gooning meetups

What?

“Gooning is a flow state: an extended edging session marked by mindlessness, loss of control, and total surrender,”

I had to stop reading this shit. I can’t believe there’s an article about it. I guess 404 can go ahead and go bankrupt, fuck off.

Edit, to be fair, it was a quote from a Vice article.

old is a 502 bad gateway for me (US)

It does, and it’s sensitive, but I’m very careful to avoid accidentally triggering it and this doesn’t happen on Windows.

If you really want a GUI, TightVNC over an ssh tunnel.

Like on reddit, positive visibility. Voting manipulation could affect which posts are shown as Hot or Active. Reddit also hides comments with many downvotes, which thankfully isn’t a thing here.

Yeah, I have noticed this too. Nobody really ever mentioned him as a founder of reddit before a few years ago, and now it’s like some legend of internet lore. He was famous for different things and never called a founder of reddit from what I recall.

I gave up on facebook, twitter and instagram years ago, but just because I did of course doesn’t mean everyone else did. I ended up replacing them with nothing… more reddit, I suppose, but it doesn’t fulfill the precise same purposes.

It’s heartening that finally significant amounts of people are moving to alternatives because the alternatives do exist now. When people were ticked off with reddit in the past, your choice was pretty much… fuck off, i guess. Same for Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and IG. At least there are good alternatives to Twitter and Reddit now. They don’t need to be huge, merely big enough.

I agree! I’ve been wasting time on reddit since 2008 or so, to the point that now and then I’d block it on my router to avoid going there from habit. Not all bad of course, but it’s been increasingly futile and counterproductive in the past few years.

I’ve never used third party apps, but I stopped going there when it became clear the management has zero respect for the userbase.