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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by matheusmoreira »

taude wrote: post #824
moi2388 wrote: post #796

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Because ads are worse than cancer. The fact companies are allowed to jam them into your eyeballs without consent is absolutely ludicrous.

how so? I just slide by them and move on with my life. It's absolutely mind-blowing to me the entitlement people have thinking they should get things for free.

Oh please. They're the ones who are entitled. They literally think they can sell our attention to advertisers. It's not theirs to sell.

They chose to have a free site. Don't want to give things away for free? Charge for access then.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by cto_of_antifa »

explorer83 wrote: post #816
iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

If anyone is thinking they are bigger than they are it's these mods. Some of my favourite hobbies have been absolutely tainted by people who become mods of a community who put their societal/political/sexual beliefs with equal weight with the actual topic of the sub reddit. Say anything that mildly offends the mods personal beliefs? Banned. Or at the very least, find yourself limited in the role you can play in the c…

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Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by growingentropy »

moneywoes wrote: post #712
growingentropy wrote: post #190

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It's going to sound dumb, but honestly? I filled an rss reader up with some of the best sources I could think of, and am actually really enjoying just quietly taking the world in again, instead of trying to come up with my latest snarky Reddit-friendly quip.

Mind sharing?

News: Chicago Tribune (a certain browser with a certain addition bypasses the subscription shakedown), New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC.

Tech: Hacker News, Tech Crunch, The Verge.

Music: Pitchfork.

MMA: MMA Fighting, Bloody Elbow.

Plants: Epic Gardening and Indoor Gardening, with plans to add some carnivorous plant forums.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by glorfindel212 »

rightbyte wrote: post #206
zik wrote: post #137

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That's amazing and wonderful. The only guys who use a vote are anarchists.

Anarchism is to its core, like, small committees voting on stuff all day. For some reason people think of Mad Max.

Anarchism is the absence of power structure. A comittee vote is a power structure.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by cand0r »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #169
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #152

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Any good alternative? I like hacker news for now that it still got some comments worth reading and interesting articles

Lemmy is still significantly lower user count but honestly I prefer the community at the moment. Everything feels small and jovial. At least for the 12 comments I've posted thus far. I'm running my own, which makes it easy to federate out to pretty much anything and worry less about overload as I'm not really pushing for users. Thus far, it's definitely felt like a very viable replacement for reddit for the communiti…

Lemmy also isn't blocked as a social networking site at my work. I assume its the same elsewhere

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by Jochim »

wombat-man wrote: post #800
Jochim wrote: post #745

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They were charging by request. IIRC the $2.50 figure was arrived at by taking the total number of requests and dividing it by the total number of users.

ah I see. Too high a price then.

Yeah but the worst thing about it was the timescale. Most of the 3rd party apps would have choked down the cost if they had the time to transition. Reddit's true intention was made plain by giving them just 30 days to do so, while also removing NSFW content.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by kulahan »

aprdm wrote: post #828
idkyall wrote: post #801

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Look, I'm not the biggest Mark Zuckerberg fan or anything, but I don't think the thus-far questionable business decision to pivot to the metaverse is quite the same level as having an very public mental breakdown and making anti-semitic remarks

Yeah exactly. I have issues with what social media does to people and some of what Mark has done.. but he is nowhere near my level of despise for Musk, Kanye or others in that circle.

Kanye is suffering from mental illness and was off his medication while simultaneously having millions of dollars, adoring fans, and cameras in his face 24/7/365. I think most of us would do something stupid in that situation. I don't really get why you would "despise" someone for being ill.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by iaw »

idkyall wrote: post #801
iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

Look, I'm not the biggest Mark Zuckerberg fan or anything, but I don't think the thus-far questionable business decision to pivot to the metaverse is quite the same level as having an very public mental breakdown and making anti-semitic remarks

I apologize, I should have been clearer.

I don't mean Kanye's public antics and statements. I meant his questionable design/musical/performance choices.

Mark has lost over $30B on Metaverse supported by a stagnating ad business. Apple just launched an AR product that seems quite a bit better than the Meta options. John Carmack publicly complained about the reasons he left work at Meta which demonstrate a lack of vision at the leadership levels. It's unclear how the Metaverse will play out at this point but it feels like a solution looking from a problem rather than something people really want.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by matheusmoreira »

goykasi wrote: post #823
matheusmoreira wrote: post #809

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> Why do you deserve to have no ads? Because my attention belongs to me. Exclusively. It's not yours. It's not reddit's. It's not Google's. It doesn't belong to anyone other than I, certainly not a corporation. It's not a currency that can be used to pay for services. They do not have the right to sell it off to the highest bidder. I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped:…

Wow wtf. You have some serious issues. First, I agree that your attention belongs to you, and you are 100% in your right to go elsewhere. Reddit is not forcing you to view their ads. But second, you are unhinged if you think this is a reasonable comment: > I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped Wow

I'm glad you agree. I don't really mind if you think I'm unhinged. I don't mind the downvotes either. The exact same moral issue of consent applies. As a human being, I deserve to be able to consent. It's part of what it means to have dignity. I don't consent to my mind being violated, it's that simple. If that makes me unhinged, so be it.

If you want to discuss the matter further and hopefully understand why I said what I said, I'm happy to do it. Provided you approach the matter seriously without name calling.

Re: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

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Post by tracerbulletx »

explorer83 wrote: post #816
iaw wrote: post #786

I think Huffman is falling into a trap that Kanye and Mark Zuckerberg have fallen into: trying to prove he's special. Kanye rose to fame as a young genius rapper/producer/designer and was acclaimed repeatedly. Zuckerberg rose to fame as a brilliant business twenty-something (according to the world around). They spent half their life being praised and told they're important, brilliant, special, prescient, etc. So they…

If anyone is thinking they are bigger than they are it's these mods. Some of my favourite hobbies have been absolutely tainted by people who become mods of a community who put their societal/political/sexual beliefs with equal weight with the actual topic of the sub reddit. Say anything that mildly offends the mods personal beliefs? Banned. Or at the very least, find yourself limited in the role you can play in the c…

Stop pushing the narrative that the mods are the source of the protest. They're just acting on the behalf of the members of their subreddit who are upset at the direction of the company.
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