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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 714 points 2 years ago (57 children)

There's still one protest possible.

LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!

Same with twitter.

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  • [–] 119 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    Twitter and Reddit went so much to shit and lowered the bar so much that Meta actually became almost not bad in my eyes, almost.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Gee are you implying that storing passwords in plaintext is a bad thing? /s

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm still pissed off that I've never had a facebook. I never gave them any info about me. I gave them no reason to have a profile on me.

    Yet because OTHER people have facebook, they know my name, my address, my phone number. I don't know if they can identify me in pictures that other people post, but it wouldn't surprise me.

    That shouldn't be allowed. I did not consent.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Correct. And the same is true for the mobile phones, carriers, and a slew of apps that all look at contacts. They know who you are and who your friends and family are.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    There's a guy in the world of pro wrestling named Jim Cornette that said a quote this reminds me of.

    Cornette is known for holding grudges, and being hateful. He keeps a shitlist of people he hates.

    Well in the 1980s he was working for a wrestling company, and hated one of his coworkers for a year. Then a new guy came in and was so much worse.

    Then one day he says to the first guy "You know, you used to be at the top of my shit list, but with all these new fuckheads coming in, you managed to move down a few spots simply by not doing anything!"

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Meta is a little hard because they acquired a lot of existing social networks in their prime and have kept things subtle. Think about how long it took EA to finally strip Maxis of everything but The Sims. The only way you would know something is owned by Meta is from the splash screen.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The problem is that FB is the "core forum" for tons of niche hobbies. Irts the only reason I still have a account. They successfully killed off the old php forums.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they're used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I left Reddit 6 months ago when I was permabanned for asking a question about what is forbidden. They can kiss my ass. And I hope they go broke.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Aw man. I left Reddit on my own terms as soon as the writing was on the wall re: 3rd party apps.

    To have access ripped away without notice must have bred some deep hatred for the platform.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I left Twitter for much the same reasons. All the replies are basically unusable now, because bots just pay to get put at the top of the sorting algorithm, and it's now full of bait and spam, since the website formerly known as Twitter now pays for engagement, since that apparently worked out well for Quora (!).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I genuinely tried to leave but lots of communities didn’t leave Reddit and therefore had to stick to Reddit. I did with RRSS-feed and avoided their app.

    Recently figured out we can Sideload Apollo app with almost all functions available. So did that.

    Thankfully never used twitter! I read valuation dropped from 44B to 9,4B recently.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    You can create the community and begin the migration

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I’m not the right person to start a community, that’s the main problem. I’m not fit to be a Moderator and such.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's super easy, the main problem is no one will move. I still moderate a couple on reddit, but it was hard enough getting people even there, certainly no one will come here.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    I feel like internet users have become so lazy, stubborn, and resistant to change. I'm pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo, IRC, ICQ, AIM... people used to try new things

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Companies have done this on purpose. They all want you to stay in their walled garden, their "ecosystem" of various products. So they make it easy to get into and get connected to people and things, and then make it hard to leave because you're "invested."

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I’m pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo

    In some respects it was somewhat easier to get them to be on multiple platforms instead of moving. Think of the original messenger proliferation, where sometimes people would be on IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, or etc. so much so that you had software like Pidgin and Trillian to help consolidate server/chat rooms and friends lists to more easily chat with all your contacts.

    Even with Ventrilo, I remember being open to also switching to Mumble or vice versa if there was some hiccup with either.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Eh, not everyone is fit to be a moderator.

    I don't feel I have the time (this issue is made worse by my timezone not aligning up with the most active hours for communities), nor do I have the maturity and level-headedness to be a fair and impartial moderator.

    E: oops replying 3 days later. I'm surprised this thread is still in my feed...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    The hold outs for these sites are so fucking dumb. They act like social media is somehow an important part of their existence when just 10, 20 years ago it was an emerging technology. These early iterations of social media are toxic as fuck. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They don't deserve your patronage and are taking your goodwill and turning it into social decay.

    10-20 years and you people can't give it up for something better. There is no argument. You don't owe them loyalty. They aren't innovating. They have contributed to the rise of authoritarianism.

    Yeesh.

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