I almost entirely posted on smaller niche communities and didn’t really pay attention to bigger ones. It was mostly relaxed. I remember once going onto r/entertainment and making a mild criticism of a show. I returned to find my comment like -70 and with essay length replies explaining how my opinion and lack of enjoyment were “objectively” wrong (Reddit comments did seem to love declaring certain opinions as objective). It was wild.

Constant swearing is like a replacement for cleverness. It wears thin very quickly.

When I see comments saturated with swears all I can think of are tweenagers who just realized they are out of earshot of their parents. I’m not offended by the swearing, just bored.

On was on this helicopter infil-extract mission (walking multiple km in and out for fun) and got back to base, and was immediately put on the gunturret of a convoy that was going to an outpost. I was oh by the way informed I going to spend the next few weeks (read: months) there so it was a frantic packing job before hopping in the turret. I think I was up in the ballpark of two solid days. I ended up throwing up from energy drink overdose.

This is kind of a filler week for me. I’ve got a couple of days in the middle of the week off but I’m powering through working the whole weekend. It’s gonna be 40 hours in 3 days, so that will be killer. But next week is looking wide open. Running group, camping trip with some daytime hiking, and a tabletop gaming night (tbd if it’s OnePageRules or Marvel Crisis Protocol). So that’s looking up. At some point I’ve got to finish a commission of painted miniatures which is a minor headache as the customer is simultaneously asking me for improved paintjobs compared to his stuff but he is also extremely insistent my stuff color matches and is indistinguishable from his stuff. Two conflicting priorities. Hopefully he’s happy and I can put him on the “do not take jobs from again” list.

I don’t disagree that it is irrational. This is exactly my point: The kinds of people who value meaningless points tied to their account create a lower standard of discussion. When the goal is more points at all costs, it conflicts with quality. The lack of account total points on Lemmy doesn’t appeal to such a person.

There was certainly a profit motive. That’s a reason for the kinds of bots that would repost popular posts in an attempt to build up karma.

There was also just good old fashioned psychological addiction to having a bigger number tied to an account. Over the years I’ve seen plenty of huffs about account or post karma by real people who were really riled up.

This may seem very petty, but I wonder how much the lack of permanent user karma has an effect. I doubt many people here even cared about it, but on Reddit it seemed to drive a lot of the lazy hanger-on comments that were cheap karma boosts.

I swear askreddit’s questions are automated at this point.

Yes, removing NSFW from API was part of the initial announcement.

Today during the AMA, somebody asked about it and the CEO’s reply was that because NSFW carries potential legal risk it was pulled from the API but would still be on reddit itself. Which is an answer that makes absolutely no sense.

Pretty clear the real intention was to make sure any apps that didn’t die from being priced out would be lacking the horny content that brings people to the site.

I use brave on my phone. It autoblocks youtube ads, which is nice.

I’d add a third reason that killing the apps materially affects all the people who were die hard app users. Previous proposed reddit boycotts were over some issue like the site firing the woman who organized the AMAs or some other moderation issue that for the most part didn’t impact the rest of the experience of browsing. It’s easy to forget how one subreddit got ruined or some admin drama because it feels distant from day to day browsing. Taking away the apps is impossible to avoid. App users can’t just shrug about all this drama and go back to browsing the way they are accustomed to. Opening that official app is going to be a constant reminder of how ugly all this was. It will make sticking to a boycott much easier I think.

A big part was how run into the ground it was. I don’t want to seem like a grump, but any funny joke losses it’s appeal when it is repeated too many times. I also wasn’t a fan of when one person would actually make a good joke by quoting a TV show in a way that was on topic, and then people would just reply to that comment with other quotes from the show. Like ok, you proved you got the reference but you also killed it, thanks.

I will miss r/happycows tho.

There is a place near me with great food, but their webpage menu is a scan of multiple pages of their menu set up in a slide show that will automatically rotate through the pages every ten seconds or so, and there is no way to stop it except to keep your thumb on the current page and kind of wiggle it. And if you want to scroll to a different page of the menu you can’t just flip through the pages, you have to wait at least 5 seconds before attempting to scroll but if you wait too long your scroll input and the auto scroll both happen and the menu has jumped past what you want to look at and by the way you can’t scroll backwards, only forwards so you have to make a full loop.

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Beehaw is exactly like that. Right now only mods can create communities.

I agree. I did mention that a tabletop gaming community would be nice, but I didn’t feel the need to push for one right at this moment.

I think more communities on this instance make some sense, but people are asking for hyper specific ones. I saw a post today asking for like 5 different niche technology/computer communities that are direct Reddit ports. It makes more sense to keep everything under a single community and only split once the userbase of that community has developed enough.

I believe OP was worried about huge numbers of communities within the instance. If the instance is supposed to be a shared space with its own culture, it doesn’t make sense to add a ton of niche communities within it.

Since all the instances can talk with each other, not every instance needs every niche community created.

Not itemizing specific rulebreaking behavior I think can work with a cohesive instance culture. I think that is a good move.

Itemizing rules can lead to ruleslawyer minded people finding things to do which are against the spirit of the rules but not the letter.

The possible downside is of course, mods banning people on unfair and unequally applied whims, but given the nature of federation I think that would be a self correcting problem as users with a sense of fairness leave. Bans, if/when it comes to it, done with transparency can ensure the culture doesn’t develop a mods vs users feel.

I don’t know if your rejections currently do, but perhaps they could point to other instances. As gently as possible explaining beehaw is at max moderation capacity and suggesting the other instances.

The ironing of losing my mobile app for Reddit is that I’m browsing Lemmy on my phone browser (Brave) and honestly it works well. The design is minimal but that’s what I wanted all along. Density of information and clear buttons.