Shocked Pikachu face meme.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I didn’t have a “tantrum” when they blocked my 3rd-party app for corporate reasons… I just stopped using Reddit.

      • fatalError@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Me too, I did most of my redditing on the phone. So the only redditing I do these days is when on desktop looking for various hardware recommendations, cause unfortunately I don’t know how to search lemmy that well

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Lenny is also just missing the decade of pcmasterrace and other pc hardware sub content. It might get there in time but for now Reddit is still a font of information and advice from knowledgeable people.

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Exactly. It’s like hey… If the corpos take a dump in your mouth you can either leave or you can stick around and complain about the taste. And yet the people who left are the whiners?

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The only mature and adult course of action is to sigh and resign yourself to getting fucked at every turn, as wise and responsible adults throughout history have done. Any action beyond innefectual snark is a childish tantrum. This axiom somehow does not apply to the actions of the already powerful and those doing the fucking on their behalf. That is simply the natural way of things. Do not ask how they became powerful in the first place.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’m glad I figgered it oot. All I miss are the video subs. I can live without them.

          YouTube can’t get it right, I watched one video about police brutality 15 years ago and now they think I just want to watch people get pummeled by cops all day and be mad about it. I can’t just go subscribing to a community with content I like on there, gotta subscribe to individuals and hope the right stuff rolls in. I just don’t watch many videos these days.!

  • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Surely, attacking the mods of a community and calling them whiny babies will get you what you want, right?!

      • don@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m a motherfuckin user. I log onto this website sometimes. That means I dictate when you shit and for how long. Just be glad your breathing is out of my control. For now.

        • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          10 months ago

          Aha but your breathing is now under my control now.

          You are now aware of your breathing.

      • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        People have gotten fucking insane with this “Everybody should do exactly what I think they should do at all times full stop and if they don’t they’re literal fucking garbage, and if you disagree or care about a different thing than me you’re just a whiny baby whining about baby stuff” mentality.

        I’m a lefty, and it’s an election year which means I get to deal with this for 10 months straight from the dems.

        • Kalysta@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          And if there is a CHANCE you might do something they don’t like…they cancel their primaries

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    All my subreddits that I moderated went to shit after the protests. I stopped, the replacements stopped, the sudden influx of shitty posts and shady users drove off the normal communities.

    Fuck em. I haven’t felt the urge to post on reddit in months and it’s lovely knowing the people I’m interacting with probably aren’t rabid fascists unless they’re Lemmy.world pissbabies.

      • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 months ago

        /r/snackexchange/ - I made it a protest subreddit by embracing Spez’s call for user democracy. Every day every single thing about the subreddit would be reset and users would have to vote for every aspect. The only rules were that you couldn’t abolish democracy and you couldn’t abolish me as the caretaker. /u/Icxcnika was a weird little goober who took it seriously instead of seeing it as a protest meant to derail the subreddit. He voted to make himself mod for a day and then the admins did a mod coup to make him the head, even over the other two mods that had been there for a decade and built all of the third-party tools we relied on to make the subreddit work. He had only posted once, some 8 or 9 years before, and had never moderated. The users and other mods fucking hated him and activity in the subreddit fell off. Now he no longer posts, one of the other mods no longer posts, and the last remaining one is apparently now a bot that sells funko pops.

        /r/fifthworldproblems/ - The other mods and I were all on board with the protest. They forced us back open so we refused to do anything. Now it’s restricted and the only link posted since the protest was a Lemmy instance that I didn’t have anything to do with.

        /r/modernart - I started rebuilding this one after it was overtaken by spam from people who don’t know what “modern art” actually means. I want to keep the subreddit because there’s good radicalisation potential with it in the right hands, but I stopped posting and only remove the most obnoxious spam days after it’s reported to tank the quality of the subreddit. I’ll be replacing everything with a Lemmy instance link at some point but was always holding out for Hexbear to open up community creation.

        I had a few others that I just left or let the admin bot take over.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Don’t they understand the mods leaving is a consequence of that “tantrum”?

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Love how they bellyache about the mods not doing a good enough job when they spent the final weeks of the June protest harassing the existing mods and and basically dismissing and disrespecting all the work we were doing for the past decade. They just expected things to go back to business as usual and the mods should just shut up and continue doing unpaid janitorial duties for the benefit of spez out of sheer momentum I guess? The scale of their entitlement is unreal.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Piracy mods are few of the mods with a backbone that actually left reddit because of all the bullshit.

    • S_204@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      It’s infinitely more active than this site. The discussion is equally shitty. The difference is people here feel self righteous…

  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Seems like the way for reddit to “solve” this is to just close bad subs.

    But that’s easily exploited, if people migrate to other subs and start protesting the sub closures, those subs get worse and they need to be closed…

    Oh no, reddit, did you just discover that you relied on your users to make your site good and by screwing them over you’ve made your entire business unsustainable at scale?

    Also, somewhat related, is there a short snappy name for lemmy communities? Some people call them subs out of habit but I don’t wanna do that, and “communities” is four whole syllables, and ain’t nobody got time for that.