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[-] skylestia 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Marxine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Found the new face for the sub

[-] michikade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We did it, Reddit!

Oh wait.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 1 year ago

Shouldn't the fediverse have a Community for sexy John Oliver pictures?

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ohhh that's clever! Surely there's been enough publicity for HBO writers to notice, and that's perfect fuel for getting Johnny to bring this to mainstream.

[-] Tilted@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Agree, it is clever and John Oliver is very sexy.

[-] CarolinaBlues@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He’s a dreamboat-y mcboatface.

It's just the kind of stunt that he would respond to.

I've no doubt that his writers read Reddit.

[-] nefarious@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is exactly the kind of tactic that's needed now. If Reddit wants to end the blackout by force, then what else is there to do but make them regret it?

[-] evo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Incredible. I can't believe that's actually how the vote played out.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] nefarious@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The framing of "Go back to normal" or "Only sexy pictures of John Oliver" was clever. Lots of people are going to pick the funny option over the boring one in basically any low stakes poll, so even people who don't care much about the protest probably still voted for it.

There's also a lot more motivation for the people who are pissed about Reddit's changes vs. the people who just want their infinite feed of content back to its former state.

I bet similar scenarios play out with spez's whole "moderator democracy" idea.

[-] roofuskit@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Gee, I wonder if there was a good reason reddit wasn't run by popular vote to begin with?

[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Remind me of good ol fashioned Boaty.

[-] tauonite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Limited to sexy pictures of John Oliver. Only the very best

[-] onepinksheep@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint: All pictures of John Oliver are sexy.

[-] TheCuriousCoder87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I really hope someone gets this in front of John Oliver and he makes a segment on it. It would be hilarious to watch 😂

[-] MoonlitKnight@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's almost enough to make me want to go on reddit again

[-] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There's a magazine on kbin.social, BotIt, with people who just started work on a bot to begin mirroring submissions on Reddit subs to kbin magazines. I suspect that before all that much time has passed, you may be able to get the full John Oliver experience without leaving the comfort of the Fediverse.

[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

mmm that's cool, but that could create a new niche community line worldnews ( it's about hentai ), what would be perfect was if every subreadditdird the same creating a lack of diversity and driving users away.

[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

c/animetitties?

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