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Clbull

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  • Andrew Tate is indicted on human trafficking and rape charges in Romania

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  • Seems very coincidental that he started some twitter beef with Greta Thunberg right before he was arrested.

    Wouldn't be surprised if he got tipped off that GRETA (The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings) were building a case against him, then being the weapons-grade moron that he is, assumed they meant Greta Thunberg.

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

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  • Completely understand why you're doing this. I think you want this place to be more like an alternative to Tildes that doesn't descend into rampant shitposting, and that's completely understandable.

    It's a good thing I made an account on lemmy.world too, so I won't fully miss out on the fediverse at large. Only reason I did was because I originally thought my app to join Beehaw was rejected (in actuality, I just didn't get the sign-up email, couldn't be arsed to check my spam folder and didn't even try to login for a month.)

  • Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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  • I don't think it's wrong for Spez to charge for API access, but the rates he's vowing to charge are excessive and clearly designed to nuke third-party apps from their ecosystem.

    As for how I'd make money from Reddit in his shoes, I'd:

    1. Add more features for Reddit Premium, like being able to view more than 1,000 items on the front page, video uploads in comments, or enhanced search functionality.
    2. Add OnlyFans-style subscriptions or revenue sharing for partnered subreddits/users, with a 90% to 10% cut between content creators and Reddit.
    3. Bring back RPAN as a full time streaming platform to compete with the likes of Twitch/Kick.

  • Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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  • They could easily do that by:

    1. Threatening to site-wide ban moderators who keep their subreddits dark (on the basis that they're disrupting the regular function of the website.)
    2. Actually banning them if they follow through on another blackout.
    3. Doing a bit of overtime to moderate /r/redditrequest, on the condition that people don't request subs that already have more than two million subscribers.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3

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  • I've been a lot more active on Beehaw over the past few days than on Reddit. Tried to get into Kbin but the servers have been remarkably unstable and I don't like the fact that you can only view 25 comments at once.

    I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.

  • Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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  • Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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  • As somebody who isn't even a Star Trek fan, I still think a flood of trekkies is infinitely cooler than a flood of white supremacists which have killed similar platforms.

  • Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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  • Apparently the head mod of /r/Tumblr has already been forcibly demodded. A bit weird that Tumblr of all places has been the starting point.

  • Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely

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  • The News and Worldnews subreddits prove there are people still willing to lick Spez's boots.

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  • Rumble is a major one, but they're more well-known for housing creators that have been banned from mainstream platforms, like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Donald Trump, etc.

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  • To be fair, he isn't wrong.

    I cannot see another blackout happening. I think a sizeable chunk of Reddit's moderators would go back if it otherwise meant losing power and influence on one of the largest social media sites.

    Of course a lengthier or indefinite blackout of most of Reddit's communities would cause major disruption.

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1

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  • Fully agree. As much as I see good in the adult entertainment industry, I utterly loathe OnlyFans as a platform and find it increasingly repugnant the more I see it in use.

    Why?

    1. It directly falls afoul of Reddit's rules on self-promotion, and it feels like e-girls are just being given a free pass by the admins to spam and astroturf the fuck out of every NSFW sub.

    2. There's an element of findom (financial domination) and emotional exploitation to OnlyFans. It exploits vulnerable men by design and has pretty much been synonymous with the untrue notion that if you shower a lady with money and other lucrative gifts, she just might maybe notice you.

    3. In the early days, OnlyFans had allegedy turned a blind eye towards CSAM (child sexual abuse material) and it feels hypocritical that Mindgeek faced far greater backlash from stakeholders for similar transgressions. To my knowledge Visa and MasterCard for instance are still working with them...

    4. It's ruined the NSFW side of Reddit because none of the interactions with exhibitionists you'd otherwise have feel genuine, that's if they even interact with anybody on a site other than on their OnlyFans.

    5. More of an issue with Reddit. Some asshole moderator didn't agree with what I wrote in a past comment and so added an Automoderator filter so I'm effectively shadowbanned from using words like "OnlyFans" on a lot of subreddits. It's awful when you have to get creative with words to get past draconian censors.

  • Will you stay at Lemmy and the Fediverse, if Reddit steps back?

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  • I know I will. Reddit has become complete dog water over the past few years and I've been looking for a decent alternative for a while now.

    Literally the only thing Reddit has going for it is troves of NSFW content and some incredibly niche communities that Lemmy doesn't yet have answers for.

  • what's the asshole mitigation plan?

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  • It's a damn necessity if you want to avoid a situation like Mastodon had with Gab joining the fediverse.

    Imagine the absolute shitshow if a white-supremacist Reddit clone like Poal suddenly integrated their site with Lemmy...

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    Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3.

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  • I think it's existed for over a decade and is called Diaspora.

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  • I think the Digg v4 moment will be when/if Reddit bans porn. And if they're gunning for an IPO, they're going to do just that.

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  • Reddit has a worse power-user problem than Digg. I mean at the very least Digg didn't give its most active users the power to remove other people's content. The difference is that Reddit already existed as a better alternative to Digg until it imploded, whereas until the recent API changes and blackout happened, there was no viable alternative to Reddit and a lack of people seeking an alternative.

    I hope that Lemmy serves as an acceptable shelter if not home for users looking for the next good web aggregator/messageboard, despite its shortcomings and the growing pains.

    Time will tell. My concern about Lemmy is that it's non-profit and server hosting costs are great. It's all well and good until you see some of the smaller instances shut down because they cannot afford to host.

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    Is Street Fighter 6 better than Gollum?

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  • It was getting really bad.

    On my Reddit account I have about 80 followers. Nearly all of them are OnlyFans spam bots.

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  • I'm surprised we haven't seen power mods collectively band together to form their own Reddit clone.

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    UK - Coconut Tree restaurant staff not paid monthly wages

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-england-bristol-65839842
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    Cookie Cutter Gameplay Trailer - Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2023

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    Sonic Superstars Developers Explain Why They're Finally Abandoning Green Hill Zone - IGN

    www.ign.com /articles/sonic-superstars-developers-interview/
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    In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout

    old.reddit.com /r/videos/comments/145vns0/the_future_of_rvideos/
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    Elizabeth Holmes has gone to prison. Will she ever pay victims too?

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-us-canada-65678967