lori

You can’t throw just anyone in to moderate a gigantic subreddit. They can get a user on the mod list but that doesn’t mean they can mod and a poorly moderated subreddit doesn’t keep users around long.

Only if those new mods know what they’re doing. Reddit will run out of people who know what they’re doing very quickly. Filling mod positions with randos isn’t the same as successfully running a community.

Twitter just needs warm bodies. Reddit relies on users to run the communities. That’s the difference. Reddit is the only big site right now where a small number of users leaving angrily can cause serious structural issues for them.

I posted a slightly longer comment about this downthread but unlike other websites like twitter, reddit relies on users to be moderators. This is the one site that can’t afford to lose their power users, you can replace them with scabs but the scabs probably don’t know how to moderate a community that large and if enough big community mods quit reddit will never catch up. This is one of the only sites right now where the power users being happy actually does matter more than the average user, because they’re essentially staffing the site for free.

See this is the problem with reddit. On a site like Twitter, pissing off your power users doesn’t matter much. If anything you lighten the server load some if they leave. You have plenty of users to replace them.

On reddit, pissing off the power users means losing the unpaid volunteers keeping your site running. Sure, reddit can just reopen the sub, and probably will. But who’s going to moderate it? A sub that big needs a serious mod team. What happens if several other large subs follow them? How is reddit planning to staff all these subs? Will whoever they grab know what they’re doing? If enough mod teams resigned in one go reddit would have no way to keep the site working. Even if they find new volunteers it doesn’t mean they’ll know how to moderate a huge community.

I’m trying out both kbin and lemmy now but I’m not new to fedi. I joined mastodon back in 2016 or 2017, stayed for a bit, eventually forgot about it, came back around Jan 2022 or so? I forget because I checked out several instances before I got on the one I’m on now. I also dabbled in some other fedi software but nothing I spent much time on. I always meant to try Lemmy but obviously recent events reminded me I was going to do that.

I’ve always been opposed to this kind of branding. Users are users, posts are posts, getting heavy into branding is always a bad sign to me.

The fact that nobody has seen Kevin Can F**k Himself, the most perfect TV show ever made, tells me that. At least it knew what to do with the two seasons it got and wrapped it up, again proving how perfect of a TV show it is.

I use Sync, but I can only imagine it’ll be the same story there. It sucks, and I can’t stand to use Reddit any way but through third party apps.

I tell people I got into woodworking with traditional hand tools for the craftsmanship, but it’s actually just a fear of my hands getting wrecked by power tools.

I only indirectly caused this injury, but…

My closet has those wooden doors that fold open, right? So basically like two very skinny but heavy wooden doors with a hinge between them that fold. One of them came off the tracks. I sat it propped up against the edge of the closet door frame because I didn’t have what I needed to fix it at the time.

The next morning, I wake up to the dogs playing. It was still early so I closed my eyes to go back to sleep. Next thing I hear is a loud thud, followed by something smacking me directly in the face. The dogs had bumped the closet door, knocked it over, and it landed directly onto my face in bed. Since I didn’t even have my eyes open I didn’t even see it coming to try to move out of the way. It’s a miracle I was able to rush into the bathroom before blood starting pouring out everywhere.

So basically by not putting the closet door somewhere safer where it couldn’t get knocked over (or at least somewhere to where it wouldn’t fall towards me if it did), I set up a Rube Goldberg machine to break my own nose.

Thanks for the Pride Month gift Pat. Turns out you’re an ally after all.

Yeah I also check books out (or rent audiobooks) from the local library, unless it’s something I desperately want to have on my shelf.

Love Joplin, use it on desktop and mobile both.

This is why I can’t get on board with the current state of Linux phones. Sure I’d love a niche phone OS and would love to not be tied to Google OR Apple. But I also want to be an average person who uses normal people apps and can do my banking on my phone and play a hot new mobile game or whatever.

I’ve been keeping an eye on which large retail chains in my town have pride displays and don’t (particularly if they did last year). Meijer still had theirs at about the same size as before, which isn’t that big but at least it hasn’t changed. It was farther in the back of the store, but it was also right in front of the toy aisle, so if right wing pressure was the issue then I doubt that’d be the choice they made. Dick’s Sporting Goods had nothing and last year they had their stuff in the center aisle. Granted, this was on June 1st, it’s possible they didn’t have it out yet…but I am not holding my breath.

Something like Airplane or Clue is always going to be a feel good time.

I joined Mastodon in…either late 2016 or early 2017? And really enjoyed it but couldn’t find enough people to follow and not enough people I knew tried it out so I fell off of it. Came back some number of months before the big Twitter exodus so I at least got to see it in its normal calm state before that. I’ve tried out various fedi platforms since then.