Reddit

I don't know if you've noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it's "dogshit" and "not going anywhere" get systematically upvoted.

Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like "yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org" 🤦‍♂️

It's frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that "Lemmy is not ready yet" and that there's "no viable alternative to Reddit".

This and the overwhelming number of comments being "against the mod protests" just prompts me to question whether there isn't some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.

Fuck u/ModCodeofConduct and fuck u/spez 🖕

I joined Reddit mostly because of one specific game focused community. When they went private during the protest and migrated to Lemmy, I followed suit. While Lemmy doesn't have a lot of the functions Reddit had, I like it here more and want to stay.

After reading a bit about the protest, it resonated with me and in an attempt to support it I deleted my 7 year old account with all the content on it.

Now, I found out the said community will be opening their Subreddit again in a few days. They will keep their Lemmy instance open but I feel like the majority of people will return to Reddit because there's years of content there already while they would have to build everything from scratch here.

I respect their decision but I feel fucking betrayed and need to went. Sorry if I chose the wrong place to do so.

Members of the Reddit community r/horny are posting photos of goats and cats following blackout protests over the site's looming API charges.

Why? Well, remember the power-tripping mods? Remember the admins falsely suspending accounts for ridiculous reasons? See? They are both our enemies. Always has been our enemy. But now, the mods are shaking in fear of losing their power. They can finally feel what the users felt like. The admins are also uncomfortable. They both are at war with each other. Remember, our enemies are fighting with each other instead of teaming up to ban us. I just love how they finally get to experience our suffering. I can feel the pleasure of the mods begging admins to not take away their power.

Rule 1: All Posts Must Be About Vacuum Cleaners
Rule 2: All Comments Must Be "Wellthatsucks"

Really funny and impossible to block

The shitstorm continues

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/14c9hlo/reopening_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_may_suspect/

Ya know what? I'm really enjoying Lemmy. The Fediverse is (at present) smaller than Reddit but feels welcoming and at the same time much more "exclusive" (?). It's just that you have to make the effort to join the Fediverse.. ..and I'm not going back. I'm getting as much out of Lemmy as I was getting from RIF but it's somehow much more fun. Cya Reddit it was fun but it's over.

Following in the footsteps of r/pics and r/gifs, r/aww is also holding a poll to decide whether to go back to "normal" or to only feature images of John Oliver, Chiijohn, or their lookalikes being adorable.

Poll is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14bt0c1

Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve Huffman, BetUS told Insider.

The online betting company said there was "very close heat" over whether Reddit will reverse its new pricing policy.

"So far, the betting public seems very much "at odds" and are undecided on this one so far," it said.

Almost all bets have been on Huffman still being CEO by December 31, BetUS added.

Consider instead editing all of your comments so that they link to one of the threads about the blackouts and say that you moved over to Lemmy, with a link to a Lemmy instance and something explaining the Fediverse.

You can use Power Delete Suite to mass edit your comments. I personally used the pkolyvas fork which adds a 5 secs timer to comply with new API rates (but then it's very long so you have to keep it running for a few hours).

For example this is how most of my comments now look like:

(don't copy the same text otherwise you're just helping Reddit justify undoing the edits by considering them spam)

I have some interesting NSFW images ready to go, do you?

Background

The ugly truth is, proven by the attitude of Reddit is unlikely going to change, especially when they are giving the ultimatum to replace mods and reopen subs by force. Even if u/spez back-off this time, Reddit isn’t going to get better, it would just be a slower and painful process

Given the stance Reddit is taking, there isn’t much Redditors and mods can do beyond leaving. Exactly like what we did for Facebook and many other social network or forum in the history. After all, it is their business, their servers and their bills to pay - we are merely passengers on this train wrecks, we are running but we should leave our brothers and sisters behind this time

Setting subs to private isn’t the best options either, the knowledge and discussions created by all the users are suddenly unreachable. That is not good for us and future generations

Humble suggestions

In my humble opinion, I suggest to consider the following:

1. Curfew mode

• only allow mega thread post to limit discussions, this is better than private as it provides more transparency on what’s going on and also allow knowledge to still be searchable for those who need them. It is a good transition instead of private, because private only encourage people to create alternatives and stay on reddit

2. Educate the crowd

• With great power comes great responsibility, if you are still reading, you are likely more tech savvy or at least care more about the communities we built on Reddit. It would be nice if mods/Redditors provide guide to educate Redditors on:
• a. The reason of the uprising
• b. Full guide on migrating to alternative services like lemmy, this way the communities continues without being bounded to the a single platform
• c. These two posts should be pinned so visitors knows where to go next

3. Preserve content and knowledge

• As mentioned, the collective knowledge for all these years are priceless, there should be effort to archive the knowledge or better, if migration to a new platform is possible

Discussion

I believe the most important is the education bit, it enables individual to not only leave but continue the communities meaningfully - the people is the community not the r/insert-sub-name

With people taken care of, the effort would be to preserve the our collective knowledge. It can be a long process, but it can happen in a curfew mode by restricting the sub

When both people and knowledge are taken care of, we can just switch the lights off just like how we did it with Facebook. Normal redditors can just give away our account to spammers and scammers and let u/spez moderate the empty platform

Call for Actions

I have taken action and created !AussieFrugal for members and mods of r/aussiefrugal. I suggest we collaborate and do the same for the subs we care if they does not exist here yet. Search before creating to avoid duplication. Use the same name so it is easier for new migrants

Also, since you are here, you should be able to help your community with migration as well by writing guides

Any discussion is welcome here or the same post on reddit. Also, great if you can share this post with mods, subs and the likeminded. So we can gracefully move forward together!

See you all on the better side of the internet

I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.

On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.

The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.