A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
It really is funny. The only reason I went to reddit is that my phone app for news at the time (2011) took a shit and someone recommended reddit. I downloaded an app and that was the only way I interacted with reddit for over a decade. Then he killed that app and I figured if I'm going to have to adjust to a new app, I'm going elsewhere. What a dumbass.
Apparently not, since they are taking away the meaningless Internet awards that were essentially a free source of money. I'm still baffled by that situation.
He's famous for having said that he's looking forward to the zombie apocalypse because it would let him live his fantasy of being a slaver.
There was also a hate subreddit where the mods all had a collective turn of heart and decided to shut down, but then reddit stepped in, reestablished the place, cleared house and then installed a new set of mods so that the subreddit could keep running. Yes, seriously.
My 12 year account was banned. Still not sure why. Prior to that, i was banned from r/idiotsincars for speaking out against stereotypical jokes on Asians with bad driving by stating the statistics that Asians are not the worst driver. I guess that ruined their joke in that subreddit. Then they shadow banned me. My new accounts posts can't be seen by the public.
See I kept trying to tell people, cuz I was in that Century Club thing that you get from having me a certain amount of likes my comment or Good Karma or whatever.
And I told people that sub reddit bans need to be made 90 days of the longest, simply because the permanent bans were being blatantly abused.
Reddit summarized: I got temp banned from a subreddit for calling a neo-nazi a cracker so I made the mod's message "Calling someone a cracker isn't standing up to racism" my flair on SubredditDrama where I proceeded to get perm banned from for spoiling Hogwarts Legacy before literally everyone on that subreddit started doing it so it was reduced to a temp. Oh and that one time I got a perm from a certain hexbear-affiliated subreddit for pointing out that some guy receiving a bunch of positive attention was probably an anti-semite but it would be a few years later before I got banned entirely off that site. Point is, reddit mods will ban you over the stupidest shit.
It really is telling that I've been on the internet since way before I should have been on the internet, and the only thing I've ever been banned from are various credits and then Reddit itself.
To me he looks a lot more human than zuck and slightly less pale. Maybe it's the difference in screen/hardware, since I don't use blue light filters and let my eyes burn.
I hope the bots are helping with that ad revenue you were so concerned about milking from the user base with your shitty app. Was it worth it, dumbass?
Yeah, Lemmy's popularity is due to the enshittification of Reddit. But, Mastodon is bigger and its popularity is entirely due to Elon Musk setting fire to $40b.
Cunty McCuntface, known for being the CEO of Reddit. And if that doesn't ring a bell he himself has basically said he's a wannabe Musk. That should give a good indication of the kind of person we're dealing with here.
Everyone at school was legally required to bully him and it was talking up too much time from everyone's schedules (not to mention the regular bullies who basically had their duties doubled, underpaid teachers had to bully him in their spare time, etc) ... so they told him he was a boy genius, gave him a degree & threw him out - now he's everyone else's problem.
Now, we have centralized communities on privately held domains names. How is that supposed to not go exactly like digg/Reddit all over again, if it ever becomes popular ?
In practice there's a big one and unless there's a big schism that fragments the community, the big community will suck the air out for any smaller community in any topic.
Worse if it actually worked as intended and each tiny community stayed fragmented forever and em never amounted to anything.
I question if it is by design to prevent the formation of true, fediverse wide, decentralized but coalesced community.
If it is by accident, then it is a huge missed opportunity.
But I don't think it's by accident. The protagonist of Lemmy is the instance owner and the moderator, not the user. So the important part of the network is the instance fiefdom, not the whole network. Instances should just be another mirror of the whole, instead of tiny dictatorships.
Just erased all my comments and deleted my account.
I will be a read-only user, because YourSearchEngine will probably suggest me some reddit results in my tech/misc requests.