Awoo [she/her]

I worked at the server company that previously hosted discord servers (no longer exists) and let me tell you right now that all your conversations were accessible on the server to anyone in the company and completely and totally insecure. Overall security was pretty meh and it wouldn’t be very difficult for anyone who really wanted the information to gain access to anything on your server.

It is not a valid place to store or discuss anything that requires operational security. It is also not a place where customer data should be stored or discussed, in fact you’re also probably breaking gdpr by accident if you ever do so.

Just recently updated on this, reddit are actively trying to do something about it but are still in the “oh fuck what do we do?” stage of gathering information. https://hexbear.net/comment/3946548

I don’t think this is all just alienating power users. I think a major aspect of this is disturbing routines that people previously had. When people have a daily routine where they do the same thing every single day you shouldn’t disturb that because then they replace that part of their routine with something else, that’s what users did with reddit imo when their preferred app no longer worked. They just used something else, probably Tiktok.

Twitter by the looks of things.

What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I’ve ever seen online and the fact that it’s going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.

https://subredditstats.com

Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.

Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit

When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.

Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn’t damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.

I think it’s worth keeping in mind that for some of this you’ll need to use more than one platform for a while. Sports content was one of the last things that really popularised on reddit and that’s because it’s less popular among early adopters, who tend to be more into tech than physical activities.

There isn’t any fucking nuance.

There is us pointing out something is racist.

There are racists claiming it is not.

There are racists claiming that the people calling you racist are being abusive for doing so.

That’s it. That’s the discussion. And you look pathetic for it. You were on the side of every other word I mentioned earlier too.

Not sure I understand the joke?

minor issue

Casual racism != minor issue

Denial of racism != minor issue

Unless you’re a racist

Ahhh yes the problem is that Hexbear came in and agreed it is racist, and then the racists threw a fit.

Lmao give it a rest. Calling you a racist isn’t abuse, you just don’t like being called on it and now you’re pissing and whining about it.

Hexbear is a plague on lemmy, I can’t wait for the day of instance-level blocking

It’ll be great, you lot will opt out of seeing us, and opt out of cultural opposition to us. Meanwhile the vast majority will not, and without the far right as a constant source of distraction, concern trolling and sealioning the leftist influence will be even higher.

That one was asking for it though!

The arguments being made here are the same ones that were used for f*ggot, tr*p, nword, g*psy, r*dskins, etc etc etc.

It’s the same damn thing every single time, a bunch of reactionaries will piss and whine and piss and whine and piss and whine because they have to make the most minimal amount of effort to adopt a new word in their vocabulary instead of the problem one. They will piss and whine forever until eventually accepting it, like all the others historically.

They join a long long line of pissy whiney losers for making the same tired old arguments we’ve seen for so many things before.

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“f*ggot doesn’t mean gay people”

“tr*p doesn’t mean trans people”

“why can’t I nword if it’s in a hip-hop song, they use it”

“g*psy doesn’t refer to Romani, it’s just what you say”

“r*dskins is a traditional name for my football team it’s not racist!”

You get to join this long line of people talking absolute crap, desperately trying to avoid change because you’re incapable of self-reflection and admitting you’ve been blind to this mistake for so long. You will piss and whine and piss and whine about it until eventually accepting it, like all the others historically.

Absolutely everything in your life can and will be turned into a commodity of capitalism for someone else to profit from, including the simple act of meeting other people. Community? That will be destroyed if it will help a millionaire make more money. Society will be atomised into little individual boxes for each person where they can then be turned into numbers and easily fed into algorithms that allow someone to profit.

Something that has been natural through community building and real social relationships people care about for thousands of years will be destroyed, there is in fact a profit motive to do so.

It’s no wonder that loneliness is also at an all time high.