It’s always been a weapon of mass distraction, though, and Redditors are poor spellers.

In the spirit of this post, I would also like to hand back my prestigious award as Time’s 2006 Person of the Year. You should, too!

I am looking for the humans, not many are here yet.

Reddit may be bots talking to bots, but a lot of Lemmy is bots shouting to no one in particular.

The only thing I really miss are the Sports subreddits. I didn’t realize how much news I got from them. People are trying to recreate them here, but there simply aren’t as many people here.

Oh, I also miss the guy who posts pictures of his cows.

I got excited, but then realized this probably wasn’t a community about how awesome Weird Al is.

Let’s not overdo it, it’s not like Reddit was a pinnacle of moral virtue before the Mod changes.

My wife mocked me for leaving Reddit in a huff for nerd reasons. A month later she started asking me what I used instead, since she could see that Reddit declined just in that amount of time.

Congratulations

Keep pushing with the relevant authorities. There is a difference between “We are not intentionally restoring comments” and “We certify that we have forgotten all of your info”, and that’s what these authorities enforce.

It doesn’t matter if Reddit’s inscrutable back end makes it difficult. That’s Reddit’s problem, not yours. If they want to do business in the EU, they either have to comply or pull a Meta and stop serving EU residents entirely.

They had a third option, to treat their users as human beings and not dumb fucks to exploit until they want to leave (and forget they ever went there), but they declined to use it.

Good Bot

Some Redditors actually have some experience with this, because some subreddits award Community Points which are really crypto tokens based on karma. I earned enough shitposting last year that I had to figure out how to properly declare it on my taxes.

While it increased traffic, most of the increased traffic were low effort posts and the same old jokes farmed for Karma. I think there were even more bots there, too. Real discussion sometimes got upvoted, but a well-timed Elon Musk joke could earn $20 or so

If something similar is implemented site-wide, this (in conjunction with the API changes that hinder moderation) will no doubt result in an influx of bots mining memes for cash.

Now that I quit Reddit, I need to figure out how to sell those now.

Investors seek profit, and King Steven thinks that this is the path to profitability. He’s wrong, but you know what happens historically when you challenge the King.

Except we can be sure that the entire drop is due to humans deciding Reddit is dead. How much of the remaining traffic are bots?

So I assume this means they will open up their shitty lounge that you need Premium to access, right?

Hahaha, Reddit won’t let me view that unless I’m in the app because it’s “unverified content”.

It’s bonkers to spend so much money on avatars.

But in this case the fact they are really NFTs can help him out, even if Reddit locks him out permanently. The Reddit Vault is just a crypto wallet tied to your account (which Reddit has access to, of course), and if he thought to save his backup phrase it can be imported into a different crypto wallet and he can figure out the (very confusing) task of selling it (or moving it to a different wallet that Reddit doesn’t control).

I wonder when King Steve realizes his NFT marketplace wouldn’t be possible at all without third party contributions?

More like leaving a dysfunctional job for a better one and watching the place implode from outside.

I know spent so much time on Reddit that it seemed like a second job at times…

If nothing else, this proves that Reddit admins don’t fundamentally understand the platform. They may understand the back-end, and how to interact with ad servers to monetize content, but they don’t understand how to effectively moderate communities. it never occured to them that they would need to scrub all the NSFW content before removing the tag?

In some places, that may even be illegal. And the Reddit admins have no one but themselves to blame, because they’re the one that removed the tag without due diligence.

I’ve given up all hope for Reddit as a platform now. Mods should give up, too, and resign en masse. The Admins may be able to assign a few dozen of the largest subs to those power mods who are already favored by the Royal Court, but If this is any indication they have no way to maintain all of Reddit without the unpaid volunteer community they are shitting on.

That’ll never work. If King Spez thinks that Apollo is competition and worth banishing from his kingdom, he will have no problem at all seizing fiefdoms away from his Landed Gentry who reference other discussion sites. Do you actually think the King listens to peasants, after all?

I noted right away they did the poll via upvoting, not via Reddit poll. This means that 3rd party apps could participate. Wonder if it has something to do with it.