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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

BoRU was a great subreddit, RIP if this is the end

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

I'll actually miss that one, it was one of the least toxic large subreddits.

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

Same. The worst it got was "this is fakey mcfakerson!" (And those evaluations were usually pretty spot on).

I genuinely liked Reddit after unsubbing from almost all of the defaults. I'll miss HobbyDrama, a few others that were just really chill, and my local city sub. (But for some reason, being subbed to r/indianapolis meant that the algorithm thought you'd really enjoy r/desmoins and r/houston. Incompetence.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is one of the two subs I frequented and miss because there isn't an active fediverse alternative. The other is r/taskmaster

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

Here's a link to the same post on Teddit, an alternative front-end to Reddit, to read the same post:

https://teddit.net/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/14f7bbg/poll_vote_on_the_future_of_bestofredditorupdates/

Viewing it this way means you're not giving Reddit traffic.

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

But posts like this you wanna vote on, not just view.

I loved BoRU. It was one of the best subs on Reddit. I definitely want to have some say in this vote. Sadly, it's the kinda sub that doesn't work that well here yet. It depended on the mainstreamness of reddit, as there's very few updates and even fewer that are that interesting.

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

long live john oliver!

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

That is by far the best mod update and explaination I have read yet.

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

Ok I clearly missed the John Oliver thing. Can someone explain that to me please?

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

Several subreddits have ruled that they will now post only John Oliver related content as an alternate means of protest. I think it started on /r/pics, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't it mainly nsfw sexy pics of John Oliver?

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

Their criteria was "John Oliver looking sexy," but no NSFW was stated, no. In fact, they clarified that John Oliver always looks sexy, so all pics of him were acceptable.

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

Also, John Oliver’s Twitter feed is just him posting pictures of himself for others to post on Reddit.

https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120

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

That is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just read the article on this yesterday. It was /awww, /pics, and /gifs as the first to do this (with I think pics starting it)

Very amusingly, it was first stated that “only sexy pictures of John Oliver would be allowed”, but then it was changed to, “all pictures of John Oliver are allowed, because every picture of John Oliver is sexy”

Edit: I see someone else already mentioned the “all pictures of John Oliver are sexy” bit. Sorry, I just missed it somehow.
As a further edit, here was the original article

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does anyone have access to the modcoord discord? We should really get those protesting subs to reopen on activitypub while they're blacked out or posting only John Oliver pictures. Dip their toes in a better pool and maybe they'll just stay here.

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