Very well said, it must have not been easy at all with the huge and sudden influx of people, but everyone did (and is still doing) a fantastic job in keeping lemmy a beautiful place to be.

While I could understand this approach for big enterprises, to avoid the hassle of managing thousands of employees PCs, I don’t understand it for home use.

I mean, people who want a PC at home, want it for the multi-purpose capabilities and power in gaming, not to mention full control over it.

Those who only use the PC for email, browsing the internet and watching videos, are better served with a tablet, they’re so powerful nowadays that you don’t really need a PC for those simple tasks, students would be better off with chromebooks, they’re even cheaper, a few types of jobs, like professional graphics for example, are better done with a MAC, and probably other things I’m forgetting right now.

I fully switched to Linux years ago, but if I were still using Windows, I know for sure I’d be furious if my computer stopped working only because the internet went down or MS servers had some downtime.

I’d love to know what they know that I don’t to be so sure this won’t blow up in their faces.

Those 4 are the default ones that come with the software, people are already working on custom themes, in time we’ll get a lot of options I’m sure.

For now you can get custom themes by using a browser addon like stylus and grabbing the themes from github, for example: https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes

It’s really sad to hear that, harassment is always despicable no matter how you look at it, some people just don’t get it unfortunately.

I mean, there was even a post on 3rdpartyapps inciting people to spam mods calling them cowards if they didn’t participate in the protest, how can they be so thick?

Anyway, I’m happy you found a better place to be :)

It’s true that not everyone has the chance to find another job when their current one is bad, but in general, keep in mind that when bad things go out to the public (like in reddit case), things inside the company are even worse.

I bet admins are venting among themselves even harder than what we do here, so I believe they wouldn’t be affected by “hanging out” here as much as you think.

I mean, noone is hating directly on them, we know they’re just following orders and that the culprit is the ceo.

True, but admins are just employees, it wouldn’t be a bad thing if, by reading here, they understood it’s time for them to find another job.

Some people just don’t care but there’s also a lot of propaganda to make protesters look bad, I don’t exclude there could be bots doing it.

The protest has been already very successful IMO, for once, we showed we can literally crash the entire platform just by flipping a switch.

Then there’s the significant drop in ad revenue as you said (there was a Verge article about it) and we probably also ruined the IPO (Reuters, I mean fuc*king REUTERS, said the IPO is premature and reddit should reconsider for the time being).

But the most important thing, the protest made people aware of valid alternatives, I didn’t know anything about the fediverse before the protest begun and now I’m happy to be here, many other people like me.

I think people saying the protest is not working are those hoping reddit changes, they’re being delusional, reddit won’t change, but even it they did change, I really can’t grasp how some people want to be treated like sh*it like reddit has done so far.

Reddit is being abusive towards their users and that alone should be more than enough a reason for moving out.

It’s also one of the very few that’s been pretty accurate about it, I’m impressed.

This. Stadia was one of the last example, they’ll kill this new service too after a few years, it’s not worth to even consider using.

TIL what the GAFAM empire is.

Besides that, I think the following quote is key:

Google realized that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore

I never used Google Talk nor XMPP but I gather XMPP didn’t have enough users to sustain itself.

Chat systems (and Twitter/Facebook similar platforms) need a very high amount of users to be “sustainable” because they are centered on individuals.

The fediverse doesn’t need that many because is centered around meaningful discussions, having too many is even counterproductive because discussions derail into shitposting (look at reddit).

I agree with the blogger when they say

We should not try to include as many people as we can at all cost. We should be honest and ensure people join the Fediverse because they share some of the values behind it

Mainly because if we did, lemmy would go down the drain as much as reddit has done the last few years.

I want Meta blocked because I don’t want their shit coming over here, much more than being worried about them trying to extinguish the fediverse, tho you can be sure they will indeed try.

Finally a “down to earth” explanation I can fully understand, thank you!

It’s most probably IBM forcing it, but yeah it’s dumb.

It doesn’t matter IMO, it’s very smart and hilarious nonetheless, their post about it is a masterpiece.

I don’t know, but if that’s the case, reddit code is even more sh*tty than I thought, seems almost a miracle the platform can work at all lol.

Very few magazines unfortunately are accounting for the fact that everything mods are doing now was voted upon by the community, spez is spreading a lot of propaganda.

I too wish mods would quit moderating altogether, there were more than 20 thousands participating in the blackout, imagine how much it would cost reddit to replace even a small part of them.

Reddit further told PCMag: "It’s not OK to show people NSFW content when they don’t want to see it. In line with our Moderator Code of Conduct

Mods tagged subs NSFW before allowing people to spam porn, and reddit admins have been so stupid they turned subs back to SFW without removing porn first, so now anyone can see porn where they’re not supposed to.

Who’s breaking the code of conduct?

Spez later revealed an exciting new idea for a system where users will be able to vote moderators out of their positions and install new ones. This type of pure democracy on a site like reddit is bound to be wildly successful and incorruptible. But, there’s only one problem: At the pace it takes reddit to develop new mod tools and systems, it’ll be years before such a system is ready. That clearly will not do in a society built on instant gratification.

That is why the r/PoliticalHumor mod team would like to announce that starting today we are bringing pure democracy to the subreddit: All users are now mods, and as such, are part of the “Landed Gentry”. Welcome to the club.

That’s brilliant!! 1 million and 500 thousands users, hilarious.

I saw that video on YT a couple of days ago and I didn’t like it, it’s too extreme IMO and doesn’t really do justice to everything that’s happening.

I’m not a mod, just a user, but I used reddit for many years so there are a few things I can understand nonetheless.

First about the blackout: it’s true that only 2 days don’t do much but it was probably the only way to get such a massive participation, if it was indefinite from the start, it’s possible many big subs wouldn’t have joined, why I don’t know, but that’s how reddit works.

The blackout has been immensely useful nonetheless, it made many people aware of alternatives and it’s the reason why lemmy and kbin are growing so much. It also sent spez in panic mode, regardless of him swearing it was just a noise, we crashed the platform after all.

About subs reopening, it’s not all of them, the guy making the video cherrypicked probably the most pathetic post he could find about it and used it to categorize every other mod, that’s not the way to go IMO, they’re not all the same.

It’s possible that a few mods are making reddit their purpose in life, but most of them have a meaningful life, a full-time job, a family, and moderate on reddit on their free time because they enjoy a good community and exchange of knowledge, saying they’re all like losers in a basement is highly unfair because it’s not true.

There are still people on reddit fighting the good fight, it doesn’t mean they’re not planning to move away, several mods are making plans on discord AFAIK, and it takes time to organize a community, especially if big.

But the main thing the guy of the video is not getting, in my opinion, is that the purpose now is not to make reddit change their mind about the API, because they won’t, the purpose is to hit reddit in their wallet, damaging ad revenues and possibly the IPO, those still protesting on reddit are doing this exceptionally well.

They should tell this story to news oultlets, I bet many of them would be happy to publish it, The Verge comes to mind, they’ve been pretty accurate so far in covering the protest.