[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

Scaled sorting is gonna be huge I think. Really looking forward to that

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 98 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People like to think that they've made some far-reaching change with what little actually happened. The painful truth is: they didn't. There wasn't a big hit to the userbase, most people on Reddit already hated moderators and didn't give a shit if they got removed, and overall people caved far too quickly (how many people folded instantly when their internet moderator position was threatened? (I say this as someone who was one of those moderators that flat out quit everything and nuked my account rather than continuing to toil for free for a corporation that hates me)).

The actually important thing that was accomplished by the protesting was platforms like Lemmy getting enough of a userbase boost to become stable - in the future, Lemmy and others may be able to act as viable alternatives to Reddit, because there's already a community here (however small). Reddit will continue to enshittify, and people will continue to leave in small numbers that may escalate to big numbers if they commit a truly massive fuckup. The more heavy Reddit users (read: more invested, not necessarily more active) are small in number compared to the vast majority who lurk, don't give a shit about any ongoing meta-drama, and don't particularly care about any changes to the UI or browsing experience as long as they can still get an endless feed of memes.

Even if it hurts to realize this, it's important to make sure people get this message beat into their skulls so that we aren't stuck with a bunch of Redditors (derogatory) with over-inflated egos that think Reddit will bend over backward to appease them, then cave as soon as they receive literally any pushback from the corporation running the site.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 283 points 10 months ago

The ancient trials redefined for the modern age

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Gonna slow down with posting, but posting will continue.

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3040202800

Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKsWH_-neKU

Really like this one, as it's A) actually a "taunt" taunt, where you're making fun of the guy you just killed, and B) both Halloween themed and all-year-round Medic themed.

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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago

Any PR statement that includes the words "we hear you" can be safely ignored

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tankies are souring a lot of people from joining in my subjective experience. One of my friends questioned the presence of them and the views of the developers (and also why the "main" (not accurate but they haven't even joined, so) instance lemmy.ml had the .ml domain to begin with) and I couldn't give a satisfactory answer at the time, as I didn't know enough about the place yet.

Upstanding instances should do their part to defederate from any tankie or fascist instances, so we can all distance ourselves from extremist rhetoric and make it seem like an actually OK place to hang out.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

How many of those people are still gonna be using the site though?

It doesn't matter how loud you scream if you won't actually do anything about it.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 165 points 1 year ago

Fantastic idea, but did they need to use plastic packaging?

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

Probably not yet.

Reddit has over a decade of content on it, from a much bigger userbase.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 358 points 1 year ago

I don't need Lemmy to compete with or kill Reddit. All I wanted was any one platform to get enough of an influx of users to be self-sustaining even after the outrage started to die down, which appears to have been successful.

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

I doubt we will see any big dent in numbers so soon, if at all. The brutal honest truth is that most users of Reddit are casual lurkers who just want a content feed and do not care about anything else. This is why subreddits protested as they did, interrupting the content feed with blackouts and extremely niche rules.

What may actually happen is that a lot of the content creators leave, which will decrease the quality of the site in the long term and maybe push out the casual user when the content gets bad enough. This is not something easily quantifiable, so we'll just have to wait and see.

But personally, I'm ok even if reddit isn't toppled. Now that I've stopped using it, I have no stake in the matter anymore.

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