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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Sure would be nice to foster new niche communities on Lemmy instead of talking about our obnoxious ex-platform

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I'm just enjoying the war.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

lol I respect the honesty

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Reddit ia gonna get fat soon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And not just a regular amicable breakup but one where you left after finding out the other person was actually a cold-hearted narcissist who only pretended to care about you and now they’re lying to everyone about how you were the horrible one. So it’s understandable to feel some schadenfreude for awhile.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yup. As someone that has been on Reddit since like 2007, when it was purely a tech news site and I don't even think had comments yet, I don't really understand these "just stop talking about it" posts. No. This guy took something that held immense value for a large percentage of our lives, and turned it into something near-worthless (at least a shell of it's former glory) over a few years time. I think we should talk about it until it's dead. I want to hear about it's death knell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fair points, and outstanding analogy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I didn't even think of that.

Makes sense, it definitely helps provide a sense of solidarity amongst us users

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's a pasttime as old as Reddit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can't deny that. At least now, instead of doing it on reddit we can do it on a different platform

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Lmao, I can't deny it is really entertaining seeing how creative people get with picking apart that dumbass ceo

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Or both. Both is good.

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The new niche community is shitting on reddit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

At least we aren't on reddit complaining about reddit. That always seemed silly.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So he said not to upload a video generated like this?

ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*225:128:128[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4

Got it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a little disappointing that Last Week Tonight is on break right now due to the writer's strike cause Oliver would eat this up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huffman has learned nothing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's about a guy that sold his stake in reddit thinking it was worth nothing, coming back as CEO when surprise reddit continues growing, and only being worth 10 million in silicon valley where his peers are worth billions. This is the show silicon valley, but in a universe where erlich bachman ended up as CEO of pied piper.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm just here for the popcorn.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It really isn't. Twitter is still up despite musk and Reddit is still strong.despite this...you miss the aim. If the aim is egalitarian then yeah....but no the aim is to make personal money and power (in musk case it is political.platform like being a modern newspaper baron..the next Rupert Murdoch, spaz for the sweet sweet IPO for yacht.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Don't do that" - Zooms in to make sure everybody can see exactly what they aren't supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I just say that I'm really happy that so many yt alternatives by people who aren't morons are starting to appear? At some point, all I saw from friends and reddit was all bitchute and voat and they tried to stick this alt-right tinge to the fediverse, but alternatives to big corporate are starting to become more normal again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but there was a time when things were getting pretty depressing, because there was this digital TINA: it's either us big corporates or those "special" nazis :/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

the only winning factor is if he comes out on top with a lot of money and unless reddit completely dies, he will. hell even if it completely dies he may still after inevitably selling the name/site/assets.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Louis Rossmann is like having an early birthday lol, he uploads video pretty much everyday since this reddit fiasco

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Love that the subreddit made this move.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Always has been

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