I dunno, I was up and running in five minutes. You pick an instance, you sign up, you verify the email, and you’re good to go. What server doesn’t matter much, barring it closing unexpectedly and without warning. There’s not enough users to need more than a handful.
Eh, if it were easier to block an instance as a user, I’d be 100% with you instead of 95%.
There are instances that are batshit crazy. Since blocking an instance as a user just ain’t possible yet, I can see why defederation before trouble gets going is useful. Once the nasty side of the internet gets snowballing, it’s much harder to manage.
Troll, or serious extremist, some things are just cancerous.
Redundancy is never a bad thing
It’s all about fucking with them. Yeah, they can pull the plug at any time. But the longer it drags out, and the more of their own rules they have to change/break along the way, the worse position they end up in.
Fuck spez, don’t make it easy. Make them play the heavy. Make them do it in a way they can’t pretend is justified.
You can, it’ll just be a struggle.
If you stand firm, you can get enough people to recognize that there are viable alternatives, and once you hit a decent number of friends and family, it takes over on its own.
Every time I see something like this, I’m reminded of the bathroom scene from fight Club. The listing more than the do not fuck with us part.
Not in the Dick swinging sense of it, but that hunting down and targeting the very people you rely on to function cannot end well.
Reddit has cops and criminals, doctors and fighters, manual labor and execs. Not everyone is going to resist, but the cross section of humanity that does is everywhere.
Spez should actually be very glad that project mayhem isn’t a real thing. He could end up with his nuts sent press release style to a couple of news outlets. He’s the fucking poster boy for the anti capitalist hate brigade at this point.
Heh. You should have seen the post I did to recruit replacement mods.
But, seriously? A lot of these are copy/pastes. Word for word. And they’re all somehow massively upvoted beyond anything else where they occur.
Like, on the edc sub, an amazing comment might have a thousand upvotes. Some of these “fake” comments had triple or more than that. And, insert surprise face almost none of them had any history in the sub. They’d never commented, never posted, didn’t have the sub in their “commonly used” header.
I suspect a combination of active fuckery on an admin level, active fuckery by user groups using sock puppets, and a tiny fragment of actually upset users. I can directly say that admins ignored the fuck out of the one thing I sent them a report on, which was a death threat. Said it didn’t violate reddit rules. K.
We already know that greedypigboy engages in fuckery like editing shit, and that he’s actively seeking to root out anyone objecting to his fuckery. So, yeah, I 100% believe he’s actively working on some part of this too.
As an example of why there’s some group coordinating shit, the prevalence of “coward” in these copy/pasted rants is unusual. For one thing, it doesn’t fit the actual events, so it points to a deep misunderstanding of the word coward. Then, it gets used so frequently that it boggles the mind that so many people have the same misunderstanding. This points to a small group of idiots running a campaign issuing sock puppets.
Since a decent number of the comments like this looked the same as the typical bot account, with a few months of use, but minimal activity outside of complaints, I’m not sure if I believe any of them are individual users expressing themselves. Those comments have a different feel to them than the copy/paste ones.
“Hi, I’m sorry, but we charge an extra api fee for reddit employees”
“You have an api for a coffee shop”
“Yeah, its the Asshole Prevention Insurance, since the ceo is a giant, gaping asshole that likes to spew his filth all over things, and we want insurance that nobody from there does the same thing.”
Ngl, us r/efugees are not happy with things over there.
As much as I’m coming to enjoy this, it still isn’t what reddit was, nor is the app experience anything close to as feature rich. But, I’m finding other benefits here that are, and never were, possible at reddit, so it’s still a good thing :)
Reddit is proof that no publicly traded company, nor any that intends to be, can be trusted with anything. Not use that was ever in doubt, but reddit has shown it in such a glaring, grotesque way that it’s the poster child for how shitty corporate thought is.
I dunno. I was enjoying things. I had started moderating two subs I deeply cared about, with one having a strong sense of community building. There’s an emotional response to the loss of that. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to put in the work, put in the passion, when it’s shit on by the very company that profits from my free labor. fuck spez, fuck reddit
Yeah, it’s weird. You can check archives. The comment was just a standard comment about music. Mod seems to have a bug up their butt