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[–] gary@lemmy.world 285 points 1 year ago (30 children)

My notes:

  • As expected, a blackout with a set end date is seen as toothless by Reddit leadership
  • I hate when companies refer to their employees with some "cute" nickname, like "Snoos"
  • He expects some Reddit users to actually resort to physical violence, painting them as the irrational bad guys in this whole situation?
[–] gary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I also suggest submitting a request to exercise your privacy rights (if applicable to your location): https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360001370251

According to Reddit's Privacy Policy (as of June 13, 2023), they need to verify that you have access to your Reddit account:

Before we process a request from you about your personal information, we need to verify the request via your access to your Reddit account or to a verified email address associated with your Reddit account.

Also note from the Privacy Policy (as of June 13, 2023):

After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

[–] gary@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think the number of downvotes show up next to the comment score arrows until it receives at least one downvote.

In the meantime, you can hover your cursor over the score to confirm how many upvotes/downvotes a post or comment has received.

[–] gary@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, justice should be apolitical.

[–] gary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The mid-engined Toyota Previa.

My family had one when I was a kid, the supercharged model, with captains chairs in the second row that could be spun around to face the third row to create a chill hangout zone when parked or for long road trips.

I grew up thinking it was normal to lift the driver's seat to access the engine. I was not a smart child.

[–] gary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well, with that recommendation, I'll definitely keep an eye on mlem.

In the meantime, I'm pleasantly surprised at how usable Lemmy is on mobile web, much more so than Reddit.

[–] gary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the links. Hope their development makes it easier for Lemmy to grow.

That said, I personally prefer to use homescreen shortcuts to Safari on iOS to avoid having to download apps that can clog up my phone, use up its battery, etc.

So the fact that I was happy to have Apollo installed on my phone really says a lot about how much I loved using it.

[–] gary@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The list of instances with user count and other stats: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

[–] gary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Strange, no idea what's going on. Could be spam or technical issue with the users meaning to comment on another post.

@ruud@lemmy.world could maybe investigate?

[–] gary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Looks like there's an issue with posts >2k characters that the admin is aware of: https://lemmy.world/comment/76346

[–] gary@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To me, this is like Richard Stallman and certain reprehensible actions and opinions.

Just like with Stallman and his contributions to software, I can justify using Lemmy to myself due to it being open source and the devs not directly financially profiting from the spread of Lemmy (although it certainly raises their public profile).

It's definitely unfortunate that they're Tankies.

 
  • Charging for certain types of posts, such as job/gig postings, apartment listings, car listings, etc while allowing every other type of post for free

  • Keeping employee headcount low (Craiglist reportedly only has 50 employees, but I'm unsure how up to date that stat is)

  • Avoiding significant development/infrastructure cost by keeping the UI/UX essentially unchanged

On top of this, I assume Reddit became a lot more expensive to run when it started hosting images and videos itself (presumably to prevent users from navigating away from Reddit). Could Reddit have reached its current state of growth (for better or worse) if it had continued to rely on third party media hosts?

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