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JohnnyEnzyme

@ JohnnyEnzyme @lemm.ee

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  • I did it! I got my first warning!

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  • So if I'm understanding stuff like this correctly, it's R being on the side of big business and user exploitation, etc, but not being willing to actually admit that, and thus, all these bogus 'threatening violence' charges.

    Maybe part of what their exec team learned from two summers ago is to just STFU publicly, meanwhile letting their AI grind down legitimate critique / dissent.

  • More pickles!

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  • Bonus pts for the magic trick of 'jalapeño slice traveling across jars,' a good little classic.

    I’m not sure what to call that or if it already has a name lol

    In Peru there's something kinda similar called leche de tigre, the spicy, key lime, red onion marinade used to prepare ceviche. One can drink it like a shot.

  • Banned for no reason. Appeal gets no response.

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  • You're not disagreeing with anything I said. You're talking about a completely different issue which I'm certainly sympathetic to.

    Because I do get the sense that users are more easily banned these days at the admin level. Having slow or non-existent customer service doesn't seem to be helping either, based on the anecdotes you all are sharing.

    Btw, feel free to list or PM me your Reddit account name. I can run it past some reputation checkers to check it out...

  • Banned for no reason. Appeal gets no response.

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  • Banned for no reason. Appeal gets no response.

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  • Bullshit.

    I've been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there's at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn't seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.

    But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)

    So part of my point is this-- if you're browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you're telling me that you haven't made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.

    And if so, what you're telling me in short here is that you don't know what you're talking about.

  • Banned for no reason. Appeal gets no response.

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  • This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn't true.

    I'm on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.

    Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.

    But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.

  • How to make a Sourdough Starter

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  • Not sure how directly related this is, but I used to love making pizza from scratch as a young-ish dude.

    Now, it's almost impossible to completely screw up pizza under almost any coicumstances, but I've learned over the years that: 1) preparing / proofing the dough (as long as necessary) is mission critical, and 2) creating an oven-situation which transfers heat as rapidly possible is... also mission critical, haha.

    This means that some people, due to sheer diligence and careful prep, can produce unbelievably delicious, oven-brick-style pizzas in their humble little kitchens!

  • Good dog!

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  • Haha, thanks for sharing, WB.

    (I'm thinking "Wow! Wow!" is either about jealousy, or a comment upon how F'd up the whole situation is. XD)

  • Tex-Mex Chicken Fajitas with Homemade Guac

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  • Homeless guac, homeless guac...!? There will always be a place for...

    Oh, okay, that looks lovely. 😅

  • What are your top 3 worst things about reddit right now?

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  • I'm fully onboard with all the critique listed here, but I'm afraid I do still use R on a daily basis. Why? Because of sheer (and original / non-bot) traffic, I guess.

    This tends to mean that highly-useful, knowledgeable, expert-level commentary is still produced there in significant quantities, even if it does mean sifting hard through the dreck to find it. And that stuff can be hugely useful to me.

    That said, I feel like Lemmy has a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio, so it doesn't have to be remotely as big as R in order to achieve the same level of usefulness, and indeed, L is certainly useful right here and right now.

    But I guess the other thing is that most of the smaller and niche communities here could really use a membership boost. Maybe with the next reddit screw-up, that will happen, hehe.

  • Teenage Terror by Grickle

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  • Great stuff, with a sort of dark, 'Saturday Evening Post' style. Also a nice throwback style to strips that went back to the 60's and even 50's.

  • What’s a thing you miss that you’re 90% sure was objectively awful?

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  • Explain?

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    Please consider supporting Lemmy development

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  • FWIW, I freaked out once over something relatively minor across the Lemmy-modality, and the dev (one of the two, can't remember which) was just a calm, gem of a person upon my temporary paranoia.

    Man, I was... blown away.(thought I was going to be banned to hell, yadda-yadda)

  • How do you find meaning in life?

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  • Unfortunately, it doesn't always work.

    For example, I've had fairly good success upon a range of animal companions going back to early childhood, but a few years ago, I made the mistake of taking on a 'problem cat' from a family friend.

    Such a beautiful creature, but she just couldn't... settle down, I guess are the words. Now me, living with a terminal disease is already hard, but unfortunately, that rascal just turned it up to '11,' bless her lil heart. So in the end, I had to donate her to a local no-kill shelter. Not my finest moment, but the lack of sleep was pretty-much the lynchpin, for me.

    I love cats, but I just... haha, kinda got spooked hard by that experience.

  • How do you find meaning in life?

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  • Now imagine your life without the luxury of a pampered, beloved floof by your side?

  • Pizza

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  • Jokes aside, this is both great tribute and super-disrespectful.

    Was that the intended aim?

  • Choices

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  • Niiice, but I need to take care of my niece, tomorrow!

  • I think I got auto banned from posting on all of Reddit bc I tried to warn Louisiana Republicans how close we are to WWIII and which side we're going to be on

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  • allows for excellent roleplay opportunities.

    Sure, if you're there to stir-some-shit.

    In which case-- proceed uponst thine own risk?

  • I think I got auto banned from posting on all of Reddit bc I tried to warn Louisiana Republicans how close we are to WWIII and which side we're going to be on

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  • I’ve had dozens if not hundreds of accounts silenced by attrition.

    I'm sorry, but... why would anyone possibly need more than one acct or two to post within the rules framework of Reddit, or really, any other site?

    "Spam," or deliberate, repeated rule-breaking intent are the two answers that immediately come to mind.

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    How can I open video links to NewPipe instead of YouTube?

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  • Unrelated question, Mssr Jeena--

    Will there also be a way to play "Chuck Game" with bots?

  • Android @lemmy.world
    JohnnyEnzyme @lemm.ee

    20 Android 'hidden gems,' i.e. excellent, mostly free, mostly lesser-known games.

    lemm.ee /post/590648