This got me banned from Reddit Event with u/Spez (Steve Huffman) LOL
This got me banned from Reddit Event with u/Spez (Steve Huffman) LOL
Lol at the sign-language interpreter, like Reddit gives half a shit about accessibility now.
Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do
I recognize that guy. He was a moderator of the r/jailbait subreddit for the many, many years it was hosted on Reddit.com.
Is that true? Holy moly!
Source? See
Of the three people involved in Reddit's creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit's greater vision.
Swartz was a far better person.
Those are always the guys that wrest control though. They have no contributions, so instead they spend their time scheming.
That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it's zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
Aaron Swartz, the internet's own boy.
Oh so now they don't like ads
Only ads that serve them are allowed
I’m sure their next “Reddit Event” will not have a real time chat.
I bet you are right lol
Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s
Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant's reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.
Who is that comment even aimed at? Being that it is right under OP's comment in (what I presume to be) a busy chat, I doubt it is a response to OP.
Good point.
There were many like that, lol!
I doubt they have delicate fee fees or feel feels or whatever. I don't care whether they even care that I was banned, all I know is my ban from Reddit is a badge of honor and proves I can get under other people's skin. You always know you're telling the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.
Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that's the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It's why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it's what's so great about Wikipedia.
i'm of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit.. they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation's access to it.
Occam’s Razor.
The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.
Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.
Because profits.
No conspiracy necessary.
🫡 thank you for your service 🫡
It was an honor, sir!
u/Ademir… A Lemming on a mission with a swagger that will set the world at ease…
So...what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?
If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.
Is there a difference between the latter and a typical spez ama?
Last time I saw one of his AMA, it was just a wall of deleted comments.
I got banned because I said "lemmy dot world" in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.
We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding.
Yeah redditors can do that too, it would probably look somewhat like this:
Come to reddit, we have CEO who's an idiot but controls everything, a 100% closed API unless you pay exorbitant prices to use it, and we have advertisements everywhere, but WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY. So please come. We also have sociophants and trolls./Steve Huffman
lol you fucking legend.
If he doesn't want to accept dissenting opinions, he should do like Mr. Burns and only allow prefabricated text.
Lisa: "Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?"He allowed dissenting opinions when he let jailbait be one of the most popular subs lol
My lifetime ban from Reddit (which resulted from saying that we need a more progressive political candidates in our country) was a badge of honor, proving my opinions to be correct and undigestible to fascists. So I had a medallion engraved with my date of expulsion which I keep in a place of honor over my fireplace.
My permaban was for saying it is a moral obligation to punch nazis lmao
Being banned from somewhere doesn't prove you right or wrong. It just means those particular people are angry at you, rightfully or not.
Just a subtle reminder because fascists and nazis themselves regularly use such kinds of phrases. Doesn't make them any more right or honorable.
Do what is right, and always strive for freedom, and you'll be good :)
My ban from Reddit proves I was right - you know you're right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you. In the same way, books are truthful when they get banned for daring to speak the truth.
I always do the left thing (not the right) and achieve my freedom by not staying quiet or bowing down to fascists.
Don't forget, he used to moderate r/jailbait.
Heard this is a myth but by all means continue to propagate this rumor 🥳
He is clearly steeped in 2000s chan culture, and jb was a big part of it at that time. It's a big part of the reason I stopped using 4chan, because it got to the point where there was too much chance of randomly coming across that shit. Reading between the lines, it's very likely that he's a fucking pedo.
Spez has like a bunch of fore written answers and then tries to fit them in the questions asked
-TitusRex, hero, probably banned now as well
lmao
Screw Reddit and spez. You did well, OP!
he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate’s Web site as a prank.
What a fun little image that conjures up.
I hadn't thought about it until now but what do redditors who didn't migrate say about us? I'm really curious now but I don't want to look. I've only been on the site a couple times since the blackout and they were for specific reasons * I don't want to ruin my streak * . Does anyone here use both regularly?
*Edit
From the place I still use as they didn't move, I haven't seen a single mentioning of Lemmy, fedivers, black out or anything close. Makes sense as those communities didn't even try moving.
In one of the subs I did notice a quality decline and it moving a bit from, people talking about shared experiences with a medical condition, to being babys first experience with medical condition, but it has moved back even so slightly, but the average age seems to have gone down.
The other one for a game. I can proudly say is just as low quality as before, but I stick around to give tech support, even if it of the absolute most basic nature sometimes, and keep up with updates, bugs and community fixes.
From what I can tell a lot of the people there who are even aware of it think of Lemmy as inactive and irrelevant and the protests as an embarrassing failure.
the protests were an embarrassing failure but lemmy isn't
Worth it. It's a win/win really
You a real one bruh!
Hey! Thanks!
Btw Berserk rocks!
I'd ban you too for using that fucking emote.
And that was the comment with more "likes" 👍
I saw it getting one more thumbs up after the screenshot
Nice, keep it up
Hell yeah this is great, especially if it is done in a cheeky way like you are poking the bear a little bit while also genuinely inviting people to try the fediverse out.
Grande Ademir, melhor admin da melhor comunidade de lemmy.
To everyone else, come to lemmy.eco.br (or to Brazil)!!
You are the people's champ.
Some of those that run corporates...
That face insists upon itself.
Oh I get some kind of urge, definitely.
#PunchSpezsrslurredlittleface
This is the greatest thing I could have seen on the top of my page 😂 Keep spreading the word Lemmings!!
Good job hero
lol thanks
What was this event, and how did you manage to get your username showing without /u?
It was a modcon sort of thing. Anyone could edit their name and add a pic.
Worth it
Spez has that empty stare of a person who knows the devil is about to collect
Lmao
He looks exactly how I pictured it.
o7
Based and anti-corpo pilled
🗿
What is up with Mr. Nosferatu hands in the little corner picture?
Sign language interpreter, presumably
I love this
Oh god, that was cringey. Please, if you want to dunk on spez, or play to the camera in other ways, please write like you passed the 4th grade.
Spamming a live chat is just being a nuisance. Nobody's been annoyed into listening to a spammer.
From the image, I don't see how this was spamming, though.
We can't see much of anything. The image shows all of 4 comments. But I can guess, considering the all capital username and copy-paste format - I would bet money that they posted that same thing over and over again. Also, I know this platform is understandably anti-Reddit, but I really doubt they're banning people for a single comment about Lemmy.
Nobody’s been annoyed into listening to a spammer.
It was just the comment with most "thumbs up" while I was there LOL.
To be fair, I would imagine that this event had some rule about not advertising in the chat in the ToS or stream rules fine print somewhere.
And as much as I dislike Steve and Reddit, I agree with Reddit on this one. You (or anyone else) shouldn't be abusing the chat of a competing service stream to advertise a different one. It is not the place for that and is rude. Please do not give existing Reddit users reason to believe all Lemmy users are rude rule breakers.
I am not complaining. I was there to make fun of Spez and I don't care if I was rude. If they think Lemmy users are any different than Reddit users they are delusional. There is all types of users here and there.
