🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

Why do we even have this orphan-crushing machine?

ZELLO! HEYYYYYY ZELLO!!!

oh, you meant… oh… sorry… oh… I’l just go away then, shall I?

The point of the phrasing is not “this is a fair description of what was happening” but more “even if it was as bad as this, it’s still bullshit”. So you’re right, but that’s why I phrased it that way.

TIL of .bzh, which is for Brittany and some other related language I’ve forgotten.

I love all the new gTLDs, but it does mean having to double-check to see if something is legit and that’s harder nowadays. heh

And that’s just if he decides to “refurbish” one!

Oh, but I have been assured^[1] that Ukraine is set to be defeated any day now.

If you supported $15/hr a decade ago, you now support $20/hr for the same amount with inflation.

For me, it means I’m back below where minimum wage should be. :sigh:

ADHD here with AuDHD wife, so please forgive me if this doesn’t help you. The only thing that helps me is breaking down tasks into smaller and smaller bits.

I have absolutely made myself a deal that I will go to the kitchen, turn the light on, and check the dishwasher to see if there’s dirty or clean dishes in there, and then I can go back to my desk and take a break if I need to.

I find that often enough if I can get myself to go to the room that needs the work and to make the barest start, I can almost always do a bit more. Maybe only unload and load the dishwasher, but hey, that’s a load of dishes done if I can do that.

Stuff collects on the floor in part because I’m a wheelchair user and it’s hard to reach the floor. So I have grabbers to help. And again, I will say - get a grabber and pick up a single piece of trash and I can take a break. And maybe I won’t do the whole apartment, but I’ll get a room done.

It works in part because I really will take the break if I need to or want to and I know it. It sometimes doesn’t work because I also know very well that I don’t have to do any of that stuff if I don’t want to.

I’m not quite sure the conclusion matches the data. Obviously it matches “so far”, but… while I follow UK politics, I’m not versed well enough to confidently address my theory, but I feel that if this was US Presidents - the system is broken, and so no matter the party of the President, the oligarchs ensure they are the only beneficiaries of government, so satisfaction drops from the intiial hopes after election to the reality that our democracy is broken.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a similar effect in the UK is what I’m saying.

Not worth labelling a single pixel 🤣

And conversely, I really wasn’t minimizing that, either. Because both - sitewide and subreddit bans for no good reason - are fucking dumb. lol. Sorry to have not explained myself well <3

I think for the admins, it’s less about the power and more about shit like the reasons Musk is ruining Twitter - money, political gain. But I know they’ve abused power, too^[1], so it’s probably a combo of all of that.

But yeah, either way, reddit is rotten, and it’s a bummer, because it used to be one of the best places on the internet for good discussion, information, all sorts of crap.

Well, here’s hoping Lemmy continues to grow. It truly does seem to remind me favorably of reddit’s early days, although I wish there was a bit more in-depth conversation on some topics. But I think I’m also a product of previous decades in that regard anyway. heh

I may not support those military actions, but we promised to take care of them. They deserve to be taken care of.

I mean, this is why you don’t trust fascists, but they sure didn’t know that when they signed up.

Gonna sound like I’m minimizing your reply - please forgive me, I’m not: There’s a wild difference between subreddit bans and sitewide bans, though. Lots of shitty mods out there because all you have to do to become a mod is make a subreddit that takes off, so the fact that you do get some occasional great mods is the surprise. A sitewide ban for bullshit reasons is much stupider since the admins should be hiring people trained to admin the site properly.

That said… still sucks very much to get unjustified bans at any level. Especially with no true appeal system in place.

Every site will get things wrong… but it feels like reddit keeps going out of their way to make things shittier and shitter.

I’m afraid I must agree with you, much as I hate to. I suppose just like twitter was destroyed, reddit is all but destroyed as well. :|

Listen, kid, I’ve been on reddit since 2009. I hung out with the admins in IRC back in the day. I was a default mod for a while, and I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion.

There’s plenty I don’t know about reddit and life in general, but on this topic, clearly I know a fuck ton more than you.

There was a time on reddit when self-promotion was against the rules. That rule was dropped something like a decade ago.

The simple fact is that - from at least the article’s telling - the subreddits wanted the content, and in that case, it is absolutely fine and encouraged for someone to submit.

There’s a guy making youtube reviews of restaurants in my local city’s subreddit. The content is popular - people like it. So we absolutely are happy to see him post. Is it self-promotion? Yes, technically. It’s also relevant to the subreddit and desired by the mods and members of the subreddit.

You’re like the people saying “dis a repost” when someone CROSS-posts. Note that reddit has a BUILT IN SYSTEM for cross-posting, but there are redditors who don’t know that.

So, little boy, you can take your condescension and /r/confidentlyincorrect along with /r/iamverysmart and fucking LEARN something, or go off and continue to be willfully ignorant.

Disclaimer: If the article’s reporting is incorrect and the subreddits considered it spam, well, that’s not what the article said, and I don’t otherwise have other knowledge of it, nor do I care enough to google for any other possible sources. But that’s the informatio you’re working off of as well, so there’s that.

PS: To add a light-hearted end: I’ll go to /r/dontyouknowwhoiam now :) (that name seems too long. Is that the right one/ Well, you probably know what I mean and I’m too lazy to look it up :P )

The solution is to have so many people monitoring that they give up counter-monitoring.

In fairness, once I’m dead, there won’t be a me to care.

I’d go with a sewage processing plant, personally.

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I feel weird that I read this correctly. hehe

But now that you mention it, I wonder if they’ll launch during the rebuttal. :|

wut

Unless the article is absolutely lying, it mentioned the subreddits wanted the posts and couldn’t overcome the sitewide ban (i.e. manually approving the content). Your comment is a really huge stretch there.