CoderKat

Honestly, we really do need more content that isn't just focused on what reddit admins are doing. Mind you, I do get it. I want to know how reddit is doing, myself. But the number of posts about reddit is just too high. There's a ton of duplicate posts across numerous communities, which makes the reddit drama take up a disproportionate amount of space on the feed.

I've largely stopped upvoting anything that isn't novel and especially only upvoting whichever post already has the most votes (ie, no dupes).

Yeah, same. I'm happy that they have lots of communities, but it is a smidge annoying having to explicitly block every individual German community. Definitely need some profile setting on the long run.

The fun thing about working in a place with a lot of vim users is that you'll regularly see chat messages containing vim commands from people who didn't realize what window they had open. It can be hilarious sometimes.

I genuinely think this is one of the biggest reasons that there's a push for people to return to office. A lot of CEOs and similar positions either feel embarrassed by how an empty office looks, or outright fear for their job. They think a bustling office simply looks better for their company, especially to outsiders.

Honestly, it probably does, but I don't think it's worth the cost. An utterly insane amount of time is wasted commuting. All that commuting also has environmental impact and basically means you're paid less. How many skilled employees will those businesses lose to competitors that will allow working from home?

Like, what the hell? You do the dishes and the next day they're dirty again?? What was even the point...

Some bowling alleys have good food. There's one big one in my city that has a gigantic Boston Pizza, arcade, escape rooms, and more all in one building. The Boston Pizza is great. They have solid food.

While I'm no fan of PHP, I feel like it gets a disproportionate amount of hate when there's some clearly worse languages out there. Where's the hate for Perl, Bash, Visual Basic, or Matlab (never mind specialty languages like Spice).

Or how about some controversial ones, to add some spice? C is often popular for it's simplicity, but it's arguably a terribly designed language. Undefined behavior is terrible. Pretty much no modern language makes the mistakes C made, so it's pretty clear we've universally agreed it was bad design.

Or for another one, Lisp family languages are popular in academic circles, but does anyone truly think all those parentheses made for a practical language? I think the near absence of any modern software being built with Lisp family languages speaks for itself.

There's a part of me that wishes I could help. I like the idea of helping the sub and site succeed. But I know all to well what kinda bullshit the mods deal with.

They'll spend lots of time having to read troll posts, death threats, porn, CSAM, and just general assholes arguing back and forth. When they ban someone righteously, there's a good chance they'll argue back. They'll have to carefully read some comments to try and get a feel of if they're written by an AI. They'll have to look through profiles and other comments to figure out if something is a bot copying comments.

People will constantly be complaining about mods not doing enough. Or maybe doing too much. Some users will get upset if they get acted on for something that wasn't technically against the rules (or unclear if it was), while others will be upset if mods don't respond to obviously awful stuff just because it wasn't technically against the rules.

And they have to do it with barely any tools. Reddit mods complained tons about their lack of tooling, but the very young Lemmy and kbin have even less tooling.

You have to be a very caring and patient person to be a mod, and it'll still probably drive you crazy. Or alternatively you can just be someone who likes a position of power and enjoys the feel of lording over others enough to deal with the downsides (or maybe even enjoy the feeling of people hating you). But that's not in the best interest of the community.

Honestly, Reddit is likely to keep on trucking with a decent sized user base no matter what. A massive number of people aren't gonna leave, if for nothing but simply not wanting to have to change. I think the most likely thing that happens is that Reddit loses a small chunk of people, their growth heavily slows due to competition and a slow trickle of people leaving (but likely offset by the network effect still favouring them for new people), and they take a revenue ding because advertisers aren't gonna like all this drama.

The Fediverse will probably have a bit more rapid growth as the blackouts still continue in some subs and more people become aware of alternatives to Reddit, but then just grows slowly, with usability being the big barrier to massive adoption.

So this is against the point, but I do wanna point out that AI can do fingers these days. Plus you can just try again if it makes a mistake. Finally, Stable Diffusion with Control Net lets you basically fit a new image to some existing shape with fine grain control. You just give it an outline of what the picture should look like and it'll fill everything in. That is effective at dealing with tricky poses. You can even just take a picture and pass it in.

Similarly, photoshopping stuff like a fake driver's license has always been easy. It's not like server admins can verify license barcodes and security features are often crippled in image format.

I think there's definitely some algorithm changes needed. I've noticed some weirdness with kbin's hot algorithm. In comments, it often puts comments with no votes or just one vote near the top, which doesn't make sense.

I also notice the front page hot algorithm has a duration option, but it doesn't seem to change anything.

And the top sorting looks like it might be local only?

That's exactly what I thought. I saw the post before the sub and thought "what is this, did r/antiMLM open a Fediverse sub?"