TheSpookiestUser
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TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish23·9 months agoBecause Reddit is in the unique position where a small amount of users can affect a vast swathe of their platform - moderators.
Most mods don’t care, by volume. The ones that do are often also the ones that are more active, more engaged, and more entwined with communities outside Reddit.
During the protest last year, polls come back favorably pretty much everywhere to shut down - but after the shutdown actually happened, a tidal wave of lurkers who never vote and never comment came out of the woodwork to complain and call it all stupid. Public opinion of all users is likely against practically any protest that could happen.
I don’t like it, but that’s how it is. The best realistic outcome is that a large contingent of content creators and more informed users leave the site - but how many of those are left that haven’t already vamoosed and are still willing to leave under some unknown worse circumstance?
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish51·9 months agoNot in any way the average user cares much about.
The causal social media user cares for two things:
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A constant uninterrupted stream of content
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Dopamine in the form of upvotes/likes/what have you
If these two things aren’t interupted, 90% of users won’t care.
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TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish52·9 months agoLet’s be honest with ourselves - no, it won’t be wildly unpopular. This change affects very few people and the people still using Reddit at this point likely won’t care much, and I have doubt any future change would cause much outrage either.
Because think about this - who is actively complaining and gnashing their teeth about the continued downward spiral and still scrolling, posting, moderating there at this point? I’d love to believe more people would jump ship - but if it ever happened it would take a far larger-scope fuckup than anything we’ve seen so far.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossibleEnglish8·9 months agoThere is a point where more users may bring more downsides than upsides - but we haven’t reached that point yet. There are still many many niche communities that have no equivalent here and starting them would never take off with the current number of people.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If seeing someone 4 days consecutively is seeing them 4 days in a row, does that mean seeing someone every Monday of a month is seeing them 4 days in a column?75·10 months agothis hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us
People that don’t check what community a post came from on their home feed and just upvote it if they like it.
Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It’s very easy to miss sometimes
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why can blocked users still see and comment on my fucking posts?214·11 months agoIsn’t the way it works now also a debate winner? The blocked user can reply to you and you won’t even know, so you can’t refute whatever they’ve said (and if you’ve blocked them there’s decent odds it isn’t good).
In my DnD group, my goblin wizard still holds the honor of being the only party member the DM has used Power Word Kill on.
I’m honored.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•"White Dudes for Harris" X suspension sparks fury: "Election interference"2·1 year agowe have to go back to our roots
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.1·1 year agoI often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We’re well overdue.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Pixelfed is adding Groups, similar to communities, which will federate with Lemmy, Kbin, and MastodonEnglish1·2 years agoI hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The best decision YouTube ever did.English1·2 years agoI am subscribed to over 100 channels, ranging from daily uploads to 1 video every few months. Frankly I don’t need more stuff to watch. When I do want to find something new, it’s either a recommendation from a friend, something I saw on a different social media, or something I searched for myself deliberately.
This change isn’t a good thing, it’s Google trying to pressure more people into giving up more data, but the “threat” of them removing their algorithmically recommended content from my feed is not a threat at all, it’s a bonus if anything.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Removal of piracy communities1·2 years agoThat’s not democracy though. That’s my only point here is that isn’t related to the concept of democracy at all.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Removal of piracy communities1·2 years agoA vote for what, though? What is being decided, and by who?
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Removal of piracy communities0·2 years agoIf you make your own instance, as a one-man thing, then it’s not really democracy at all either. The only way it would be democracy is if you made your own instance and specifically said “all decisions will be made via vote” and you actually had users around to participate in those votes.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Removal of piracy communities0·2 years agoBecause the fediverse i about democracy.
Isn’t it, like, the opposite? With the main assumption being that you should find an instance that aligns with your interests and values, not find an instance and try to vote for it to become something you like? That is technically “voting with your feet” but instances don’t actually need a large population to stay running.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement0·2 years agoWhat I’m saying is that you will never be able to decide for yourself who you do/don’t listen to, even on Lemmy. There will always be mods and there will always be admins wherever you go, unless you just head off by yourself and spin something up, and even then the mods and admins on the communities of the other instances you follow will be able to remove content on their instance.
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