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Most of the time I just use the commandline stuff (cd ls mv rm etc.) but I have vifm installed if I really want one

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No, no, I know that spell, I’ve seen it so often before, you won’t get me with that one.

Nothing really, it’s just a totally normal day here in Europe.

I was a mod, deleted my 14 year old account after having rewritten all my comments and posts

Yeah, it feels very much like a bare bones sync, which I’m using for reddit, I’m looking so much forward to sync coming out :)

That sounds very pessimistic, I hope that won’t be the case, at least it seems like the mastodon instance I’m on will block it from the start, so that’s at least something.

Wouldn’t the NDA’s just make it even more likely taht people will defederate?

Sure, I agree with you :) I just wanted to clear up what I saw as a misunderstanding, not argue against your point :)

Well, I mean, they disagreed with them… :p it seems to be the reddit inc way of doing things.

I hope the threadiverse will end up being as good an experience as mastodon, it really is a more healthy version of social media to me at least :)

What does scatter really mean in the threadiverse? You and me sit in different bars, and can communicate and see the same communities, so it doesn’t really matter if we are “scattered” or all on the same instance, since we still see and can communicate on the same places.

I think what they mean by /c/ federation is combining the communities, so that c/technology would combine lemmy.world/c/technology and kbin.social/m/technology and lemmy.ml/c/technology, but I’m not 100% sure.

I’ve been using smart-launcher for years now, and it’s what I’m used to, gestures and a nice app menu that automtically categorises applications is nice.

Yeah, I’m so excited for sync for reddit, I’ve used sync for close to a decade now, and how it works just is what I expect from an app :p So it will be great to have it for lemmy, it will probably be what gets me from kbin over to lemmy as well.

Etho is wonderful, his channel is probably the longest subscription I have on youtube, not gimmicky just being himself and having fun with the game.

The thing is I really enjoyed the community that I modded, and still do, so I wanted to make it the best place it could be, I didn’t have the skills either to do it in the beginning, started out just helping out the main moderator of our community, then after a couple of years they just disappeared, and I was driving myself rather insane for a year before I started fighting with the admins for 3-4 weeks to get the rights to get more moderators to join me, since I didn’t have the right to before that, only the main mod had those rights.

I invited some people that I trusted from the community, and it at least made the work more tolerateable, having it spread out between 3 people in different timezones, and keep in mind we were a really small niche sub (~8k members) I don’t even want to know how much worse it is for people moderating the gigantic ones, more people usually brings a lot more problems.

It became more or less a routine, just checking in, seeing if there was any spats to break up, people who were being dicks or spamming us with their books etc without interacting with the community, you get into this groove where you just get used to it. The most annoying thing was the few times where we gave people temporary bans and they started being aggressive about it in the mod chat, but since we were a really nice small community it was all worth it.

Come this whole thing, they take away the tools I used to deal with my routine, which would force me to be on the PC a lot more to deal with the community, then the blackout, we had a vote, and people were mostly for it, we did it, and people were decently for having done it, but nothing more when we were done. I don’t know why mods have a bad rep, might be a bigger sub problem like so often, I don’t know, we at least tried to do as much as possible just to keep our little community being friendly, accepting of beginners and not getting spammed with extremely repetetive content.

With this whole thing, I tried being a part after the blackout as well, but I keep seeing people just being really vitriolic, the place doesn’t seem the same anymore, the whole keeping the community happy thing gets to tiring when you know the site does it’s best to make it harder to deal with. I tried contacting admins again, but got some argueably toxic answers from the german admin, which is the only one I was getting a hold of. And I can’t justify doing free work for a company that really doesn’t appreciate it at all.

In the end I hope I at least left the community in a better shape that I entered it, I don’t know if I did, but I hope so. At least this way I can stay true to myself and not being a spineless person not ready to give up on things, not because I think I would be the only one doing the work, but because I was already doing it and kind of knew what I was doing, and how our community ticked.

You don’t need to have your own server to open the equivivalent of a subreddit (magazine) just click the plus in the topbar and click “create new magazine” :)

This is good to see, it seems a lot of the people that were for the blackout left, now there is so much vitriol against moderators on reddit, I’m so tired, I just don’t want to anymore, deleted my 10+ year old account today after telling my mod team I can’t anymore, so now at least the chances are smaller that I will go back.

doesn’t help for me they rolled back posts, not that many, but still…

The same was the problem with mastodon when we got a lot of users when failon musk bought it, people will get rid of it in a while and we’ll get to discuss interesting stuff.