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Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

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Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#251

Let me guess; This is one of the accounts that was just posting the same "Migrate to lemmy!" message in every single thread talking about the protest next week. Spam is spam guys.

Everything about this seems incredibly suspect. Reddit wouldn't ever ban anyone for suggesting an alternative (there's a whole subreddit dedicated to that). This just seems to be a shill capitalizing on the news, plain and simple.

They probably got suspended for a few days for spamming, but I bet they didn't get banned. I don't think reddit wants a martyr account lol

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#254
post #34

I hope Lemmy does well, but I don't think it's going to replace Reddit (and that's likely fine in the eyes of the Lemmy team) Nobody wants a federated, slow, difficult to use version of reddit. Nobody wants to choose a server. We just want reddit without the bullshit. It's the same issue with Mastodon. Mastodon is down over 1 million users since last December, and I bet that's related to how difficult it is to sign u…

I see the netsplit issue caused by server level blocking to be the biggest issue with lemmy/mastodon. Choosing a server wouldn't be a huge issue if you knew for certain you could still access the posts/content on any other server. Currently what you can access depends entirely on the whims of your (and their) local BOFH.

This is a problem. I can understand having server standards for groups operating there, but banning connections to other servers seems over the top. I can block users that I don't want to listen to in a group as it is.

The choice should be individual, I don't want them making choices for me of who I should or should not interact with.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#255
I don’t know who/what Lemmy or “LemmyMigration” is. I don’t know if they share the same values as me or if I would find them abhorrent.

But if what they were saying was legal, then I am strongly opposed to social media having the right to silence them.

Reddit in particular has less of an argument to support such censorship since no “off-topic” argument applies. If you don’t like what’s said on a particular subreddit, don’t go there. Start a new one with a topic that takes the diametrically opposed position.

Section 215 assumed good faith on the part of internet companies. We’ve seen now that they will manipulate content visibility for ideology and profit; i don’t give them the benefit of the doubt anymore. F** them.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#256
Nothing to see here, just platforms naturally developing under capitalism.

Just like the development of any other industry their purpose gently transforms into maximizing shareholder value and not to provide equal value to the consumer, this, contrary to a superficial analysis, does not contradict the existence of the industry itself.

Because in order to contradict the industry there must be an equal amount of power on both sides (of consumer and supplier) which we would use to prevent the use value drop to us. But that's the thing with capitalism: they own the far reaching platforms themselves, the live at the forefront of capabilities. So where is power left?

Any resistance must occur "underground" where there is usually very little exposition.

This is akin to wanting powertool manufacturers to standardize some battery interfaces. While it may be convenient to us, they have no incentive to do that and we have no power to force them besides boycott, which in a world with millions of people with millions of needs, is impractical unless you have mass media support, which is in itself almost an impossibility.

This will happen to any popular platform that maximizes profits; this happens to every popular platform with private ownership where private owners are (legally/existentially) incentivized to maximize profits.

This cannot happen in popular platforms whose aims are not maximizing profits; this cannot happen in popular platforms that have no individual owner. But a time where this is feasible has not arrived yet. I think a good example of this is standards, which can allow individuals to get rich, but not an individual. This can be leveraged even more to prevent mass users to suffer from capitalizing of the ones with capital.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#257

Is Musk running Reddit, now, too, as a hobby? This all feels oddly reminiscent of Twitter at the end of 2022, when you could briefly be banned for merely uttering the dread word 'mastodon'. Reddit seems to be doing a mistake-for-mistake replay of Twitter's recent API restriction/protectionism screwups.

I think it's similar, but this time it's to take a private company and do an IPO. Bean counters hate when a corp provides a free service, literally -hate- it, as it's hard to quantify except as a loss in the loss column. It's even harder to justify with the quarter-to-quarter management style of public companies. Thus free APIs for 3rd party apps had to go. And here we are...

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#258
post #210
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with Mastodon is that some people still don't know how to spell it properly. It's not rocket science.

You are being downvoted but I agree, what's with people spelling it mastadon? That's not even how it's pronounced (in my English but non American country, at least), so is it a language thing? Is mastadon a real word in some languages?

In America its pronunciation is closer to "Mastadon." The second syllable sounds like "tuh."

You see the same thing with other words that have "o"s that function similarly. You'll hear Americans turning "o" into "uh" in Tyrann-o-saurus, p-o-tato, etc.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#259
post #71

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People might want to avoid having the same thing happen with a reddit clone 10-20 years in the future. Federation allows communities to decide their own fate instead of having decisions handed out from on high

Sure, but only nerds will use them (not necessarily a bad thing) and will never go mainstream because of the difficulty to set up and search. Monolithic site like Reddit don't have that issue at all, you log in and away you go. Until someone makes federation that easy, I only see a Reddit replacement being of similar design and composition to Reddit.

Re: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration

#260
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It clearly can't handle more users, so that's a bit of a problem.

The software is fine, it can handle a few thousand active simultaneous connections on a fairly standard machine, and is indefinitely horizontally scalable (limited of course by whatever DB you use). I'm pretty sure the admins just haven't specced it for more than the low loads they normally get.

... Imagine if Apollo was able to just flip a switch and point it at Lemmy with 2.3k r/s. Who's gonna pay that server bill?
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