Perhaps “we” (users in general) could be a bit more strategic with this. Reddit admins have a noticeable disdain for the smaller subs there, and yet they are [were?] what shaped Reddit the most, and made it fun. They are bound to have some grievances with Reddit; and even if the Fediverse is rather small, here they’d have some room for growth that they wouldn’t with the competition of larger subs.

Mods had power because they were united and reddit couldn’t replace all of them at once. Instead, they picked them off one by one.

My guess is that they decided that the little fictitious power that they had over their communities was worth dealing with an obnoxious administration, that outright belittles them as “landed gentry”. As such, they never actually planned any sort of migration out of Reddit, and instead rationalised their decision to stay there as “we’re thinking on the users”.

Friendly reminder for everyone here - not just the poster above - that the topic of this community is Reddit. There’s lots of leeway for off-topic, but this sort of discussion about instances and geopolitics is bound to create unnecessary conflict here.

Sorry for such a late reply.

I’m not sure if I’m part of this big exodus or not. I’ve been toying with the idea of migrating this comm for months, as lemmy.ml is focused on open source and privacy while mander.xyz is focused on sciences. It’ll be more discoverable there, it’ll be easier to access it across the Fediverse, and it’ll be easier to be on the same page as the admins when it comes to the rules.

The straw that broke the camel’s back, for me, was not even politics. Or even which sort of content they allow/deny in their instance. It was how they handled another lemmy.ml community; it shows that they’re completely unprepared as a team to handle users in an acceptable way.

kbin.social could be an option, and thankfully I have an account there. I’m not doing it by votes but by the overall “feel” of the community.

Note that I’m happy moderating a community about Reddit (even if myself don’t give a damn about it any more), as long as people retrieve some value from it, and I can do so from a good instance.

Thank you. I’ll consider it.

Do you have other accounts with more activity, specially in this community?

I added a link to the language learning comm in the sidebar of the new address. Thank you for the info!

If I close down this comm, I’ll do it as you said - disable posting, but keep the content here. One of the roles of this comm was to document the downfall of Reddit, so it doesn’t make sense to delete it.

Without going too much into details: I strongly disagree with a few recent decisions of the instance admins, regarding another instance and a community within lemmy.ml, to the point that I feel uncomfortable moderating a community here. As such I’m asking the community here for a few options, on what you guys think that I should do with our comm - get new mods, migrate the comm, close it down, something else?

I wish that I could be more explicit on this, but talking about the issue in the open might lead to administrative actions, dunno.

Damn, that’s sad. Thank you for the info.

Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don’t think that queerasfu.ck would be registered.

They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?

When I saw this in some mander comm I immediately thought “yeah… it goes into Linguistics humour, folks there will enjoy it”.

Relevant detail: Ottoman Turkish ⟨فستق‎⟩ fıstık borrowed it from Arabic ⟨فُسْتُق‎⟩ fustuq, that borrowed it from Middle Persian - the same variety as Greek and then Latin did. So odds are that the f-variation was caused by Arabic rendering a foreign [p] as [f], and probably predates Persian itself internally undergoing a p→f shift. Source.

Definitive proof of a Catalan vs. Daco-Romance link! /s

Sorry for the question, but where are you from? I learned this with my mother, so I don’t know if it’s something common here (Brazil) or something that she picked from her Polish or Italian relatives.

That’s surprisingly accurate, as people here are highlighting (it makes geometrical sense when dealing with complex numbers).

My nephew once asked me this question. The way that I explained it was like this:

• the friend of my friend is my friend; (+1)*(+1) = (+1)
• the enemy of my friend is my enemy; (+1)*(-1) = (-1)
• the friend of my enemy is my enemy; (-1)*(+1) = (-1)
• the enemy of my enemy is my friend; (-1)*(-1) = (+1)

It’s a different analogy but it makes intuitive sense, even for kids. And it works nice as mnemonic too.

I’ve seen even people in their 40s using them. I don’t think that it’s a big deal, or that it’s too late for that.