TheSpookiestUser
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- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Because Reddit is in the unique position where a small amount of users can affect a vast swathe of their platform - moderators.
Most mods don’t care, by volume. The ones that do are often also the ones that are more active, more engaged, and more entwined with communities outside Reddit.
During the protest last year, polls come back favorably pretty much everywhere to shut down - but after the shutdown actually happened, a tidal wave of lurkers who never vote and never comment came out of the woodwork to complain and call it all stupid. Public opinion of all users is likely against practically any protest that could happen.
I don’t like it, but that’s how it is. The best realistic outcome is that a large contingent of content creators and more informed users leave the site - but how many of those are left that haven’t already vamoosed and are still willing to leave under some unknown worse circumstance?
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Not in any way the average user cares much about.
The causal social media user cares for two things:
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A constant interrupted stream of content
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Dopamine in the form of upvotes/likes/what have you
If these two things aren’t interupted, 90% of users won’t care.
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- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Let’s be honest with ourselves - no, it won’t be wildly unpopular. This change affects very few people and the people still using Reddit at this point likely won’t care much.
Because think about this - who is actively complaining and gnashing their teeth about the continued downward spiral and still scrolling, posting, moderating there at this point? I’d love to believe more people would jump ship - but if it ever happened it would take a far larger-scope fuckup than this.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
There is a point where more users may bring more downsides than upsides - but we haven’t reached that point yet. There are still many many niche communities that have no equivalent here and starting them would never take off with the current number of people.
- Comment on Pls don't do that 3 months ago:
People that don’t check what community a post came from and just upvote it if they like it.
Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It’s very easy to miss sometimes
- Comment on There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. 3 months ago:
I often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We’re well overdue.
- Comment on Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban 9 months ago:
sh.itjust.works would like a word
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
People like to think that they’ve made some far-reaching change with what little actually happened. The painful truth is: they didn’t. There wasn’t a big hit to the userbase, most people on Reddit already hated moderators and didn’t give a shit if they got removed, and overall people caved far too quickly (how many people folded instantly when their internet moderator position was threatened? (I say this as someone who was one of those moderators that flat out quit everything and nuked my account rather than continuing to toil for free for a corporation that hates me.))
The actually important thing that was accomplished by the protesting was platforms like Lemmy getting enough of a userbase boost to become stable - in the future, Lemmy and others may be able to act as viable alternatives to Reddit, because there’s already a community here (however small). Reddit will continue to enshittify, and people will continue to leave in small numbers that may escalate to big numbers if they commit a truly massive fuckup. The more heavy Reddit users (read: more invested, not necessarily more active) are small in number compared to the vast majority who lurk, don’t give a shit about any ongoing meta-drama, and don’t particularly care about any changes to the UI or browsing experience as long as they can still get an endless feed of memes.
Even if it hurts to realize this, it’s important to make sure people get this message beat into their skulls so that we aren’t stuck with a bunch of Redditors (derogatory) with over-inflated egos that think Reddit will bend over backward to appease them, then cave as soon as they receive literally any pushback from the corporation running the site.
- Comment on Humanities be like 11 months ago:
X is ten, as the Romans do
- Comment on Cave Bears 11 months ago:
Pantomiming to ask if they take commissions
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Appears to no longer be free, so I’m gonna take this down for now. If it was an error and it becomes free again, feel free to repost!
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- Comment on Unity issue an apology on Twitter for "confusion and angst" over the runtime fee policy. 1 year ago:
Any PR statement that includes the words “we hear you” can be safely ignored
- Comment on HADES II Development Update | Supergiant Games [Sept 14 2023] 1 year ago:
The only one I have found was !hades@lemmy.zip, but it isn’t very active.
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- Comment on SanDisk's Name is Now Mud 1 year ago:
Wouldn’t be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly
- Comment on What is the secret to a happy social-media experience? 1 year ago:
Curate.
Block liberally. Especially block any community that is focused around making fun of something - even if it’s a thing that deserves scorn, the vibe will grind you down, over time, especially if there are many communities like it. Block users who are assholes, after reporting them if it’s bad enough.
Subscribe/follow/equivalent-action things you are genuinely interested in; cut out the really general categories unless you actively enjoy browsing that topic. Smaller communities are usually better, if they have enough content to be alive.
If you have any sort of hobby, try joining a space about it. If it’s too toxic, block it, but if not, it is a good place to destress and perhaps even make friends.
Curate, it can’t be overstated enough. A lot of sites don’t let you sufficiently curate your feed, and if they don’t, you should leave em.
- Comment on The best decision YouTube ever did. 1 year ago:
I am subscribed to over 100 channels, ranging from daily uploads to 1 video every few months. Frankly I don’t need more stuff to watch. When I do want to find something new, it’s either a recommendation from a friend, something I saw in a different social media, or something I searched for myself deliberately.
This change isn’t a good thing, it’s Google trying to pressure more people into giving up more data, but the “threat” of them removing their algorithmically recommended content from my feed is not a threat at all, it’s a bonus if anything.
- Submitted 1 year ago to games@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Stellaris Dev Diary #308 - Rock On! 1 year ago:
Tried posting the video this time instead of a link to the news page.
Some welcome changes to the Lithoid species pack - tweaks to their unique origin, tweaks to Terravore to make it less fiddly. A new advanced space racism trait! (This is one of the weirder parts of talking about Stellaris.) Personally I’m a bit underwhelmed by the new portrait; It’s good art, but I really prefer more out there non-humanoid designs, which is the opposite of what they’re going for here. The quality of life changes to ascension perks and gestalt nodes are welcome as well. This kind of tidying up is why I like the whole concept of the custodian team.
Only real negative thing here is the increase on price for some older DLCs. It’s only two dollars, and they are tweaking them to be better, but I still feel like it’s gonna cause unnecessary backlash for little gain.
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- Comment on BattleBit Remastered :: Update 2.0.0: Universal Healing, Map Reworks, New Vehicle [and] more! 1 year ago:
I generally agree as well. This buff to bandages will also indirectly buff ammo boxes even more, and medics will still have their niche in being able to heal others without even using up their bandage supply.
- Comment on BattleBit Remastered :: Update 2.0.0: Universal Healing, Map Reworks, New Vehicle [and] more! 1 year ago:
Meaty update here. I’m not one to comment on weapon balance too much, but I do wonder: Do you think that all classes being able to self-heal a bit with the bandage will significantly shake up the game?
- BattleBit Remastered :: Update 2.0.0: Universal Healing, Map Reworks, New Vehicle [and] more!steamcommunity.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on On the future of Lemmy vs reddit 1 year ago:
Fair enough, I didn’t know that.
- Comment on On the future of Lemmy vs reddit 1 year ago:
I agree. Some of the alternatives to Reddit are vehemently against mobile apps (ahem, tildes), so I doubt those will ever take off.
Didn’t the RIF dev just release an app for Tildes?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2] 1 year ago:
I dunno if the community’s migrated or is still over on reddit, but /r/outerwilds was always good for gentle hints, for those who want them.
Looks like there’s a small one at !outerwilds@lemmy.world - not much content yet, but so it is while the instance has its initial growth.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [2] 1 year ago:
How is Sea of Thieves these days? Always been curious if I should convince the group to pick it up.
