CynAq

Absolutely agree.

I believe this was reddit's intention at least in part. People who care were also those constantly exposing their anti-consumer practices and greedy policies. I'm inclined to believe the administration will be pretty glad, at least for a while, that those who get what's happening are gone.

No, it doesn't, I say.

I don't think they have a particular vision for the future they want. In fact, I don't think most are aware they are supporting or opposing real life policies which have real effects on people's lives.

I think most of them believe everyone is posturing and playing pretend at the "theater of life", to signal their virtues for everyone to see and understand who is on their side and who isn't.

The reason I think this is the countless examples where something either affects them personally or causes some issue which gains attention, and they declare that wasn't their intention within the same breath they make sure everyone understands they still are conservative.

Take the many "pro life" women who find themselves in a life threatening situation with their pregnancy, eat absolute shit getting kicked around trying to find a hospital which will save their life with a necessary abortion, and then come up and say "I'm still 100% pro life but this isn't what's supposed to happen".

I really think they believe everything they hear, no matter they support or oppose it, is just PR with no real consequences for anyone, because they had been living the same mundane life no matter what the bigwigs did or said, for decades.

Edit: The fundamental cause of this behavior is a lack of empathy, I think.

Which one you choose does matter though, at least for the immediate user experience.

I don't think decoupling the content distribution system from the immediate interface works in the favor of large scale adoption of the whole system.

We can be honest by saying something like "the particular site you sign up for will look and feel different, and the people you first encounter will have a slightly different culture, but ultimately all of these sites can and do interact with each other's users and content. It's like choosing one of twitter or facebook as your main interface but being able to read and post on either one. It's a lot more complicated to talk about than it is to use it, really. You'll see when you try it".

Most importantly, people can start somewhere, and if they don't like the first site they choose, they can register with another. We should be finding ways to tell people this isn't the end of the world if they feel the need to go to another site to use the same overall ecosystem.

Most people won't even notice I think. Until that user pointed it out I didn't, and I know about the symbolism too.

I would wait for a while for things to settle down here and then ask ernest if it is possible to change usernames. The progress report he posted today says account deletions are stuck right now and needs manual attention, so I wouldn't delete my account just now, to save the guy some work.

They are basically the same reason. Forums put the comment box at the bottom so people at least glance through the page before commenting, in hopes of reducing duplicate comments.

Either that or trying to be the first one to post the same meme reply to the same meme repost you've seen for the millionth time.

-Hey, what's a huge red flag on a first date?(nsfw)

-(oh oh!!! I know!!!) Being a dick to servers
_____-And retail workers
__________-this

I think this is a sensible suggestion. Maybe it could be implemented through privacy settings. Right now, you can hide your subscriptions (they are public by default btw, fyi). Maybe it's possible to make it so you only upvote anonymously.

Fingers crossed, this place will take off and we'll have all the inside jokes we need!

Also, check the side bar. The site is getting crazy traffic in its prototype stage. With this much demand, I'm hopeful (knocks on wood).

The stuff you already boosted have a line under the boost button. You can take your boost back by hitting that again. It doesn't delete it from your followers' feeds obviously but it makes it easier for it to be overtaken by something that's boosted more.

I agree with both of you @Rexxiter and @Ole, and the best thing for me here is, people actually talking about things like a normal forum.

Reddit has that "everything is an inside joke and to get upvotes, you gotta post the appropriate inside joke first" feeling. It's a collosal collection of memes in that regard.

This here feels like a normal forum with normal people talking normally about normal things. It's amazing!

As far as I understand, the thrid party app developers stood in solidarity and they are scrapping the apps no matter what at this point.

The protest is more of a way to show reddit administration that they need to be community centric rather than profit motivated because the community can mess their shit up if when they need to.

I don't know what it will do, really. I'm just glad I got out and found this place. I hope more like minded people find it and move too.