For the record, I fully support what the remaining mod team is doing, they are a wonderful group and I trust them completely. I don’t regret the choices I made, only that my actions got a few other mods shit canned in the process.
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A gnome with a tall, pointy hat indicates at a chalkboard with a long stick. The whiteboard says “Fuck Spez”
What was it like to be a mod for a community that has more than a million users?
Thanks for all the work you put in, the frankly great content we got out of the NSFW protest, and for sticking to your guns. Took me a minute to figure out how to work this site, but I’m happy now that I’m here, and look forward to sticking around and seeing what nonsense we get up to here.
Just came here to say “fuck spez” and “thanks for the good times dalimey”
Honestly, fuck spez and the rest of the admin team.
You are a legend for what you did. They nat 1’d and instead of abiding by the roll, they flipped the table.
Is it hard to walk with those iron balls between your legs.
For real though. Thanks for your efforts and making a stand.
Genuine question dude, how did you grow such gigantic balls of absolute steel? Was it something special in your diet? Mad respect o7
Its pathetic what reddit is doing. Thank you for all your hard work.
I just joined this website and I am very glad to join along for the ride. I hope more subreddits follow this kind of alternative and delete their subs so Reddit can be left in the dust from barely having anything left to see. Would be a justified end for their greed.
What was your initial reaction when they suddenly created a rule to fire you and blacklist you from being mod again out of nowhere? Must have been quite the surprise, albeit not unexpected.
Absolutely pathetic how reddit handled this.
This and everything else.
Removed by mod
Yes! Finally! A replacement for my beloved rule argument place.
Glad to see you’re still around and not giving up on being a part of the community, I know it sucks being thrown out of something you’ve worked on for so long. Hopefully the community can successfully migrate over the next few weeks and we’ll be back to arguing over stupid rules every week.
But like… The right kind of stupid rules.
This is my first post on here thanks to the shit Admins pulled on you. How best do you recommend continuing the protest? Simply stop using reddit altogether, or is there a malicious compliance you recommend? My usage has gone down significantly since the API changes but I haven’t been able to kick it altogether.
How best do you recommend continuing the protest? Simply stop using reddit altogether, or is there a malicious compliance you recommend?
Unfortunately, that’s probably the only route, IMO
My usage has gone down significantly since the API changes but I haven’t been able to kick it altogether.
While it’s not exactly a perfect replacement for reddit yet, lemmy can help with that, i’ve found. If you click to the “all” feed you can basically get a slows/less populated version of reddit r/all. Really all it lacks at the moment is user participation, which has been climbing a lot over just the past few weeks.
Just to add, sorting All by Top Hour/6H keeps the content fresh. The default Active sorts by comments and favors 1-2 day old threads while Hot regularly resurfaces weeks old threads for some reason.
After I subscribed to a Canada sublemmy, there was a full two days where I was just constantly being bombarded with threads from literal years ago I’d see a shockingly frightening news thing, click on the thread, start reading, realize this all sounded familiar, and then realize this was like covid news
First post on here, I have as well followed after the dndmemes mod fiasco by Reddit. Question: does Lemmy allow NSFW content? Asking… For a friend.
Each community is allowed to set their own standards for the rules they have, there’s no server wide ban necessarily against NSFW, so you should check with the mods of a given community
Great, thank you :)
One such instance is lemmynsfw.com
You can subscribe to that instance’s communities from your current account, or make an account there for just NSFW (I personally like to keep my NSFW and regular browsing separate and I find that’s the easiest way 🙂)
I tried subscribing to Lemmynsfw (found it yesterday) with my account but I couldn’t manage. So I registered another account and will swap between this and that on occasion, which is something I never did on Reddit because I was too lazy to swap so I kept everything on the same profile.
Cheers :)
There are entire INSTANCES for that, my friend, with varying rules, themes, and content focuses.
Stopping using Reddit is probably the only effective form of protest. If you don’t want to do that, reducing your usage at all will help. However, the best thing you can probably do is help the Fediverse grow. Your part of that means active participation, be it posts or comments. So that’s what I would encourage you to do: Post things!
Define Fediverse please?
Ttrpg.network, which you joined, is one of many websites that can all communicate together with a common web protocol. This process is called federation and all of those sites together are called the fediverse. So for example, I’m logged into slrpnk.net right now but because both of our sites (called instances) are federated, I can view and comment here, and you’d be able to do the same on any communities hosted on slrpnk.net. You may have heard of mastodon which is more of a twitter alternative but it’s also part of the fediverse, so you should be able to use your account here to view and interact with mastodon content as well if you wish.
It’s a pretty clever system and while there are hiccups here and there, for me it has been a good replacement for Reddit. We just need more users and content to really get things going.
This is the fediverse. It’s a bunch of different instances federating with each other, sharing content but remaining individual. That way, no one instance can pull a reddit and go mad with power.
Imagine hundreds of Reddit sites with hundreds of communities (subreddits) each, that’s the fediverse (federated servers).
They are called federated servers/instances because they are connected, their uses can interact (vote and comment) between each other.
For example, you are @djgucci@ttrpg.network commenting on the RPGMemes community on the ttrpg.network instance, but I’m from the lemmy.world instance commenting on this community. This also means I can have a RPGMemes community back on my instance.
Hell yeah! Lil sad all the NSFW went missing but hey glad you’re doing good and the community is migrating over
