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overlordror

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  • why I ended up leaving Reddit today

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  • I think those communities will eventually arrive on the fediverse. If anything, building the community yourself and gently guiding people to the alternative could help fence sitters who don't understand the full implications of reddit's new policies for the 1% of power users who actually create most of the content.

    90% are lurkers, 9% will comment and upvote, while 1% of users generate content for the others.

  • Edge automatically sends images you view online to Microsoft by default

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  • Get on linux mint. There are dozens of us!

  • Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

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  • I'm a 38-year-old woman who has been playing games since she was five years old. The myth that women don't play and enjoy games is a long-running one.

  • How to effectively search the Fediverse?

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  • Bring back web rings!

  • Reddit already looks different for me

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  • I love how many of the subreddits are going dark for this protest. The community IS reddit. It is NOT the assholes who took VC-backed money to fleece crypto bros out of money. It's idiotic. I hope everyone understands that you can find quality discussions in the fediverse and leaves reddit accordingly. They're not the gatekeeper of good conversation online.

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • I really think Lemmy and the Fediverse achieve the original reddit vision better than the VC-funded bullshit reddit has become. I've only been in this little fediverse for this weekend and already it feels like the beginnings of reddit did, back in 2008 and 2009.

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • 15-year reddit veteran here. Spez thinks us old-timers are freeloaders for continuing to prefer old.reddit and the third-party apps. The truth is, that site is dead and what Lemmy offers now is closer to that original vision than current reddit ever will be. Reddit is Dead. Long live Lemmy.

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • Reddit doesn't want to have people browsing from Firefox because it's one of the last privacy conscious browsers available on mobile. They'd rather block you from using the service entirely than allow you to do what they call 'freeloading'—accessing the site without viewing ads or becoming infinitely trackable through the use of their data-sucking app.

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

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  • People need to understand that this is about tracking your eyeballs. Reddit viewed on a webpage does not provide the metadata they want. What metadata does the app provide? Things you wouldn't think about wanting as a human, but the aggregate is very valuable.

    Stuff like how long did you watch that video Ad? Where did you click on screen and at what time? What content were you viewing and what course of action did you take to get there? Web viewing only shows the landing page you arrived on reddit from and the exit page that took you away from reddit. Performing these actions in the app provides metadata cookie crumbs like a trail of roach shit to every single thing you've done on reddit in micro activities.

  • How many steam deck folks are here and what are you playing?

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  • Love to hear this—it's practically how I use my SteamDeck, too. I installed System Shock remake this weekend but I haven't gotten around to firing it up yet.

  • How many steam deck folks are here and what are you playing?

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  • How is Boltgun? I've debated picking it up, but I have no attachment to the 40K franchise.

  • Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills

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  • I don't see how. It's possible to block most ads you see on the platform and there aren't enough companies advertising to replace them so you end up with a mostly ad-free feed.

    The point is to kill Twitter. Elon Musk is beholden to the Saudis with his investment. They used Twitter tracking to find and kill Jamal Khashoggi. What you see happening to Twitter is entirely on purpose, so it can't be used to stir up uprisings again like the Arab Spring in Egypt, or the organization of Hong Kong protesters.

  • 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

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  • The forum feature feels half-baked when you have to click through bots to even access the knowledgebase. IDK. I'm old school and from an era of the internet where chat interfaces where chat interfaces and forums were kept separate. I don't appreciate the threading in Discord because it makes past conversations harder to follow, not easier for me.

  • What's something fun you have planned this summer?

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  • I'm going to see comedian Tig Notaro this summer. I've always enjoyed her deadpan comedy and she's been an icon for me as someone who is also queer and raised in the South.

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    Fedi.Tips (@feditips@mstdn.social): "Apparently Reddit has now banned a subreddit dedicated to the Fediverse Reddit-alternative Kbin"

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  • Honestly I hope this implosion gives more people a push to move discussion somewhere that isn't monetized so heavily with awards, NFTs, and other crypto junk.

  • 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

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  • That's inevitably what happens when you get a call from your VC backers asking why you're still bleeding money into a pit instead of milking the community for profit.

  • 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

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  • The over reliance on Discord has made me give up participating in some reddit communities, too. It sucks to start a discussion only to be told by regulars That its frequently discussed in the Discord and I should look there.

    No. Discord is IRC 2.0, not forums for preserving convos like reddit and lemmy.

  • Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails.

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  • So happy to see quick app development for Lemmy. I did most of my redditing fsom my phone with third party apps since they predate the original app. In the early 2000s internet, I joined a smallish community just like Beehaw called Netalive.org. Hoping this community can re-create the feeling of talking to people without a mass lurker audience.

  • Here we go, the AMA with /u/spez is live

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  • I only saw one sarcastic answer. Did he actually say anything of substance?