• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    3 months ago

    I just posted to Reddit about my Twystlock gaming accessory release. Something free for everyone.

    Most subreddits don’t allow cross-posting, so I made 5 posts in total. 1 was taken down by mods. 3 were taken down by Reddit. Only r/Handhelds survived.

    I don’t use Reddit anymore in day to day, but I’ve had releases like Winapps sit at the top of r/Linux for days and never had these issues until more recently. Garbage.

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      On mobile you can use RedReader. When reddit revoked access to its API, it made an exception for RedReader, because that app supports certain accessibility features which are “not yet” (i.e. never will be) supported by the official reddit app. So if you still want to access reddit on mobile, use RedReader, it has no ads and is much less irritating than the official reddit app.

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      3 months ago

      the “new” design is pretty much unusable on desktop too, imo. IF I absolutely must visit reddit, old.reddit it is.

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    We’re expecting a giant influx of users when the popular workaround, old.reddit.com (perhaps with RES to make it less outdated), inevitably gets shut down. Please try to make Lemmy a worthwile space in the meantime so that they stay!

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      3 months ago

      And please actively remind people to remain civil. We can be better than Reddit in so many ways. I believe!

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        Yes. However, we need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of niche communities. For example, there is no Czech community at all after both the czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances went down. It’s only once the communities get going and start appearing in “All/Active” feeds that I’d worry about serious moderation.

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          It’s a tough position to be in for non-English and regional communities. For something like a game you can cross post in both a general videogames community and a more specific one and help people find it, but there’s not much of an option for any sort of non-English non-pop culture topic.

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        I think Lemmy is and will be quite good at remaining civil because the questionable content makers use their own instances and get defederated. The most edgy community federated with the main cluster I found is [email protected]. It features cryptic posts that presumably make sense if you engage in the decentralized (IRC? Telnet??) discourse channels of sdf.org and some appear to be pro-fascist depending on how you interpret the questionable veil of sarcasm. I don’t think it’s serious enough to consider defederation because the worst ones get massively downvoted anyway.

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          They’re not just staying on those instances tho…

          When they get defederated (usually long before) they find a small boutique instance (that’s actually valid) but didn’t bother to set up any requirements for account creation then make a shit ton of accounts to troll with.

          If you ever look at the main modlog you’ll see there’s a significant amount getting banned on a daily basis.

          But they just go make another, and even tho most instances are doing something about it, there’s a surprising amount of zombie instances no one will ever change but are still running for some reason and federated with large instances.

          Eventually the main ones will need to “prune” a lot of instances, which shouldn’t be surprising considering a year ago everyone wanted to federate with everyone.

          Imagine just walking thru a city and inviting literally everyone to come hang out at your apartment, even giving them the door code to get I to your building. That’s kind of what happened.

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        Don’t forget the Rule 34 manga and rhetoric of not sexualising anything. Also the college kid Marxists… and Linux cults… And figuring out liberalism and “American liberals” are polar opposites. Basically avoid .ml And obviously don’t let anyone know your skin colour, gender, or sexual preferences if they’re vanilla. And support all war that’s against Russia. I think that’s it- Oh, and don’t reply to the same person more than twice in a thread.

        Apart from that, they’ll feel right at home.

        Ah, yeah, and obv use Thunder.

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          3 months ago

          You forgot to mention the furry porn… so much furry porn…

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                I’ve used both and have been daily driving Voyager for months, I’d say they’re both great to the point it’s a matter of taste. May as well give it a go if you’re curious!

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                For Lemmy apps, it’s best to try a few for a week or so each—theres a few good’nes—and you land on the one you like. I was just plugging Thunder because it’s sort of like the Linux of Lemmy apps. All the cool underground kids froth on it and those that don’t use it couldn’t give a fuck, because they don’t know any better, man!

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      I joined lemmy just over a year ago when reddit killed its API. I hoped that my favorite subreddit would come here too but it didn’t so I wandered back to reddit. I was clinging to old.reddit.com and would probably have stayed around for as long as that lasted. But recently they began requiring email addresses. That was too much and here I am.

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            How are you seeing that an email is required? Is it when you try to post something? My account is banned so I just us it to lurk but I can still log in.

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              My account is banned. I can still log in and lurk, but not post, upvote, etc. And, as I already said: When I log in to the main site, it says “account permanently banned”. When I log in to old reddit, it says “provide an email to reactivate your account”.

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                I didn’t see where you already said that. Weird though that it happens to you and not me. Seems like we’re doing the same things otherwise. I did recently have an issue where my adblock was preventing me from logging in on firefox but it was just saying my username/password were invalid. If you have that going maybe try turning it off to log in and see what happens.

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                  Whoopsies! I posted that to a similar conversation in a completely different thread, I got confused. My apologies. I don’t know what you mean when you say that it is happening to me but not to you. You say that your account is banned and that you can only lurk - sounds exactly the same as my experience. Nothing to do with adblock as I have confirmed the problem on multiple platforms.

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        Can I ask which subreddit or is it private? I know which communities I miss but I’m curious what communities we need to cultivate for others.

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    Over the last year I think I’ve dropped in about six times out of sheer habit, and each time I am driven away by the undeniable force of asshole design.

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    Funny how they don’t even pretend there’s any logic to it. If you can view it in the app, then the content has been reviewed after all…? Clearly just a way to enforce app usage.

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      I’ve heard a fair number of people say Reddit looks for and rolls back mass delete/edits like these. Not sure how true it is.

      • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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        Don’t delete your account, go back and mass change your posts and comments to AI generated gibberish.

        It poisons their communities and will make it harder for Reddit from monetizing their content for Learned Language models for AI or for search.

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      3 months ago

      I hit it when visiting the rdx subreddit, but it happens to pretty much all new, small subs

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    That’s only on mobile browser mode. Open your browser settings and select Desktop site and you won’t see that modal anymore.

    Still an asshole design, though.

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    It’s funny because Ukrainian war videos are put into the main feed, and you can watch the videos. But when you click the title to read the comments it asks you to login for sensitive content.

    It’s such a shitty, buggy and slow website.

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    Why did you have to delete it twice? Once did it for me (kidding) But back when reddit was cute (long long ago) they had this thing where they’d ask “are you sure” a lot of times and switch buttons and stuff to trick you (in a playful way) I liked it back then

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    I cannot stress this enough: if you just want to browse reddit without interacting with anyone and supporting their greedy, stupid bullshit, I highly recommend RDX.

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      I’m checking it out by your recommendation. I do post sometimes so I use Dystopia for that but oh it’s a horrendous UI. I suppose that’s why Spaz allowed it - and because it’s supposed to be for visually impaired.

      Edit: doesn’t seem to offer anything substantial beyond Dystopia so I’m fine with Dystopia.

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        I literally said it’s for people who don’t interact with the site. Of course dystopia is more substantial. Lol