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I didn't think it was possible to sum up reddit with a single image, but... (media.piefed.world)
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[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 9 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago) (1 children)

i actually knew one of these powerusers in the early 2010s. he had leukemia, and i signed up to be a match to donate spinal marrow for him. i visited him in the hospital a bunch. he hasn't acknowledged me since. that was a real bummer, but, i tend to see friends where they don't exist so that might be on me.

i am a little bummed that i got permabanned just because i was so close to all of the reddit founders and early employees. i personally prevented alexis from getting arrested for trying to openly smoke weed on the street in pittsburgh when it was still the kind of thing that got you put in prison for a few years if your skin is darker than popcorn.

steve huffman in particular is a shitter and always has been. think of that kid you knew growing up who would make up that his dad worked at SEGA and that Goku was going to be in the next Sonic game — that's spez, still, to this day. he is "mr. namedropper." steve, genuinely, i do not care that you saw Beyoncé at the airport.

ETA: since people are being weird about phrasing, i signed up to be a match. his alias back then was Dacvac. i literally sat in bars and watched him mod /r/pics on an iPad. believe me or don't, i'm just some schmoe online after all.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 28 minutes ago (2 children)

he had leukemia, and i signed up to donate spinal marrow for him.

if you had actually donated bone marrow, you would know that's not how this works.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 3 points 18 minutes ago

i had signed up to see if I am a match, which i would have donated if i had been selected. please show me where i mentioned actually donating bone marrow.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 17 minutes ago

Interesting... Can anyone verify one way or another?

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 17 minutes ago

I had a bizarre run-in with a mod who harassed me in DMs. It was the mod to a TikTok group and this was around the TikTok ban.

Other than that, I got banned for three days multiple times for telling conservatives to go fuck themselves in as many words and as great detail as I possibly could.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 hour ago

One of my older Reddit accounts was blocked on several top subs for abusing the report button.

One of those super mods posted a photo of someone endangering their pet on multiple subs. The content was literally against site-wide rules but also broke sub-level rules on each of the subs it was posted. I reported the photo on each sub it was posted to separately. Unbeknownst to me at the time, that super mod was a mod of every single one of those subs. So, they had the ability to ban/block me on each one for "abuse".

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'd be curious to see what their AI permaban tag words are. So many words must be listed since they will ban you for violence if you even mention Luigi or say the word "dead."

I'd also love to be a fly on the wall for those conversations to see their thought process for how they deny the first amendment and how many bots they need to replace the one person they banned to make the site seem full.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

i've been banned twice the past two years... for talking about my cat killing rabbits. once on a local sub and another on a cat sub.

apparently animal on animal violence is now too controversial for reddit.

i was also constantly blocking people the past year because i go sooo many harassing DMs. Never used to get those until like '23. i remember using reddit for like 12 years without every having to block anyone.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 minute ago

SRS was the original DM harassers like over 10 years ago.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

This is how Digg fell.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

Which explains why the Tetrarchs are so hardcore about deleting messages about it. Digg's death brought Reddit to prominence; they don't want the inverse to happen.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

No that happened because they rolled out a completely new method of submitting posts where paid partners could have direct access to the front page.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

That rollout further cemented the superusers dominating the front page issue, who were likely already being paid to promote certain sources/topics. Half the front page was dominated by mrbabyman.

It just made it more official.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Ha! I had forgotten about mrbabyman, thank you for that reference!

I think we are kind of splitting hairs, myself included.

I believe we kind of all collectively share an understanding that Reddit is controlled and users are shown what the powers behind the curtain want the users to see.

Something about the way Digg went about announcing how the front page was literally for sale, as a good thing, seems like a very quaint memory. From a naive time when somebody at the c-level literally thought it was okay to broadcast to the entire user base that now the site is for advertisers and whatever messaging was bought & paid for.

[–] ValarieLenin@midwest.social 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean....

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I'm deleting this message with this edit because it was ill-conceived and hastily dashed together and submitted without appropriate thought and care

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 2 points 37 minutes ago

Your message just killed my parents.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 35 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know there's at least one admin that also moderates r/news. That's how I got permbanned a second time. They don't like it when you point out obvious bots.

You'd think Spez's "landed gentry" would have better things to do.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago

So thats why Ibwas perma banned too

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 59 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Digg went sideways because of "power users," among other things.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

I think we are in a much different time than the Digg days. Reddit has much more power over their users than Digg ever did. If you leave Reddit, you are leaving all your niche communities and the boatload of user created content.

I left as an active user, but if I want to see conversations about the latest episode of whatever show I’m watching, there is always an active discussion on Reddit. Or if I’m looking for some BIFL suggestions, I almost always end up on a Reddit thread from 2 years ago with exactly what I was looking for and 8 different opinions.

I am hopeful that all this stuff will slowly make its way to Lemmy, but until then, Reddit is in no danger of losing its user base.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

a lot of people aren't old enough to remember that when the digg exodus happened, reddit didn't even have subreddits yet. it was just links on one page, and we built our little subculture in the comments of each thread. that's why there is such a culture of commenting before reading the article (if at all) — it used to be a big, disorganized blob of chatty nonsense, much like Fark or MetaFilter were at the time too.

reddit is a lovely example of how tech companies from 1995 to 2020 fell into success and figured out what their product does later down the line. to quote homer simpson when asked what his tech company does, "we're a website that sells computers.... or.... a computer that sells websites, I haven't decided yet."

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

Wow, I’m definitely old enough, but I didn’t realize that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 30 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Eh. There's more than one kind of poweruser. The "people who are too online" are very different from the "accounts that exist to leverage social media for advertisement".

Social media thrives on the whale users who are churning out content and hungry for engagement. It goes to shit when you've got your front page clogged with Native Ads and other shameless marketing gimmicks.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 39 minutes ago

Rest in peace, I_RAPE_CATS.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Digg's powerusers were often revealed to be selling their influence.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Many of these accounts weren't just freelancers. They were set up by marketing agencies, often with the explicit support of the social media hosting firm.

Like, its in the fucking business model to sell artificial engagement and promotion.

Might not even be a bad business model per say, if the promoted material wasn't so consistently slop.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 40 minutes ago

Mrbabyman

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

"churning out content" aka reposting old memes

The Internet, the fediverse included, seems like it's mostly just different buckets all containing the slop.

[–] piskertariot@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

While this is true, it's funny to watch them wrestle with the exact same problems right now. Literally on the front page of new Digg right now is converstions about fragmenting the user-base with blocks/bans, and how to establish friend groups.

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[–] AngularViscosity@piefed.social 18 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder how Lemmy compares.

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 2 points 24 minutes ago

At the moment the Threadiverse has not enough users. But as soon as this is becoming a problem, it is the instance Admins job to carefully manage power user moderators. If the Admins don't do their job, the instance should be federated.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Well i just saw pugjesus move ~10 comms to piefed so…

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly, even moderating ~10 comms is a bit much. I couldn't imagine doing 25, much less 125.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

I absolutely think that's part of the strength of Lemmy.

I have no idea why the Lemmy devs copied the reddit "lords and peasants" model of moderated interactions, and I don't know if Lemmy will survive long term against the tide of corruption that Reddit is in the late stages of right now. But at least it's pretty easy to move to a different fiefdom if you want to. If, for example, your home server lemmy.world gets all enshittified and filled with obnoxious interactions, you can just up and leave and still keep nearly all of your engagement if other people are in agreement.

You can take a look at lemmy.ml or blahaj and see what Lemmy could look like if that wasn't possible. To me, moving servers when stuff gets weird is a healthy thing.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 15 seconds ago)

the problem is people.

no technology can prevent people from suffering from the errors of human psychology.

people want to feel powerful and control other people. they want to boost the things they like/agree with, and silence those they don't.

some people do that by becoming internet site moderators.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Defederation by nature will help that. On Reddit if the admins didn’t want “RandomTopic” they could ban it or lock it and other variants. On Lemmy you always go to another instance and make it there and the admins of the original instance can pound sand. And if they go as far to defederate there are still other instances out there that federate with it.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago

I had a conversation with a particular Lemmy-instance admin after getting banned for having the wrong opinions, and you could feel through the screen how frustrated he was that he couldn't just mechanically prevent me from saying certain things, because of being accustomed to being in an environment where he could dictate what conversations were allowed, and everyone had to be nice to him. To the point that it was this wild out-of-pocket thing if someone could speak to him without having to "talk up" to him. It was kind of fun honestly lol.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy recreating the free market haha

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Definitely more than 10.

Some people have the time to be terminally online, and end up running everything just by sheer omnipresence.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Most communities in the fediverse, to be fair, are pretty empty compared to their reddit counterpart

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So like early Reddit.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Eh, we are a lot smaller still I think. Reddit may have had about ~40x the users that Lemmy has at this stage. But you never know, we may get some random spike down the line. When you have 1 or 2 people in a community people give up, but if you have 20-40 it may seem pretty active and stay alive and grow.

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[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Move as in Moderates or about posting content?
Because the mods here aren't an absolute force since the instance owners have the final word about how someone moderates or if they have control over too many comms.

Can't remember right now, but there have been some problems about mods power tripping and getting banned for it, that said, when the instance owner is the problem, the only smart move is to jump instances.
That's why I've always said to think of your account as disposable, shit can always go bad because we are all humans.

If you mean because he posts a lot... Well that's everyone's fault for not posting.
If more people posted at least once, you wouldn't see only the same dudes posting everywhere.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

We had a whole drama cycle about /c/196 trying to move. But this one didn't even get a peep :D

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