Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.
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I used to have an iPad, and watching an entire movie on the Netflix app drained the battery by 2-4%. The Reddit app took 15-20% of the battery over breakfast, so I switched to Apollo. Then, I could get through breakfast with the battery still at, say, 95%. Clearly, the official app did something else in the background; since they didn’t disclose what, it was probably nefarious. One day, Apollo stopped working, and that was that.
Personally I would assume bad design over compute vampirism. But I could be wrong.
The gamification of Reddit. Stickers, awards, achievements, all for creating content and engagement, regardless of quality. Now they have actual games in Reddit where you can win awards for… Stuff… I guess. I refuse to engage with any of it.
Deep ties with NFT and crypto. The NFT side died, finally, because nobody really engaged with it. I was given an NFT avatar on Reddit for free, with a whole lot of advertising to engage in lootboxes and such. My response to that was essentially “ok. And fuck you”. It’s still doing cryptoshit, though, but doesn’t advertise it anymore.
Are you a moderator of a loving community? Hate what Reddit has done? Wanna protest? No you can’t. If reddit doesn’t like your opinion, or you protest against some of their actions, they’ll just remove you from the sub you created and the new owner will be some schmuck who agrees to everything.
No RIF, no reddit, bye Felicia…
Banned for pushing back against the claim that “from the river to the sea” is genocidal. I didn’t push back especially strongly (because I suspect that sometimes it does have genocidal intent) nor did I say it in my own voice (I only quoted it - because I think that, even though it’s usually not genocidal, it is nevertheless maximalist and aggressive and therefore unhelpful). This was in the immediate aftermath of October 7 and got me banned from two of the big subs I frequented the most.
It actually left a big hole in my life and I felt very down every time I thought about it. On one sub I’d left thousands of comments over years, and I knew that the mods who’d taken that away didn’t have a second thought for that. I’d already tried Lemmy once due to API/app nonsense but this was what pushed me off.
The really annoying thing was that the ban message says you should message the mods if you have questions. In neither case was it really clear, actually, what the reason was - one quoted a rule, but not what they thought broke it, and the other quoted a sentence, but not what rule they thought it broke. I suspect that I never broke any identifiable rule because in those early days there was very little support for Palestinians and I was trying to talk to people where they were, not where I wished they were.
I’m honestly just not very informed on the israel/palestein conflict. But isn’t the whole “river to the sea” thing about expanding Israel by displacing palesteins?
Is your position just that displacement is not the same as genocide?
The context was a Palestinian slogan (“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”). The claim was that this was about reclaiming the entire former territory of Palestine, and that this would involve pushing all the Jews out.
Thanks for that, it turns out Mwmbl is my new favourite search engine 🙂
Deleted?
What’s deleted?
Here’s what I see from your link:
But I think I figured it out, you left a period at the end of the sentence, and it got included in the link.
Oh, I’m using the default Lemmy desktop version, which doesn’t include the period in the link. That’s a bug in whatever client you’re using.
Makes sense. It’s Boost for Lemmy.
User culture change for sure. The subversive, progressive, smarmy nerds that used to hang out there were “my people” so to speak. The shift to a 50/50 mix of bots and soccer moms made it kinda useless as a forum. Lemmy isn’t quite the same, but I think it’s a good thing. Much less culturally homogeneous, but 100% authentic.
So much of it is people just ditching about things in their lives looking for validation.
Nothing is about anything anymore.
