Lockely

joined 2 years ago
[–] Lockely@pawb.social 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Everyone who cares about their instance and the fediverse as a whole needs to defederate and block their instances as soon as they pop up.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's worse than that, because the official app spams your phone with tracking requests. I know most apps do some tracking, but users with apps that track the trackers have reported as many as 500k requests in 24 hours.

This is not only an invasive breach of privacy from a link aggregator forum, but also straight up murders your battery life.

I just got a brand new Pixel 7a before this nonsense started. I installed the reddit app because Baconreader is like twelve years old and I'd figured I'd see if their official app had gotten any better since I last used it. It hadn't, of course, but I also noticed my brand new phone wasn't holding a charge at all. Like, 20% battery left at 5pm while I'm still at work and barely using it.

Reddit was using over 40% of my battery while fucking IDLE. I brought this up over there and a few other people looked at it. Someone reported it was using 60% of their iPhone's battery in the last week. It's repugnant.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

As has been said before, you've always been allowed to criticize Discovery, Picard, and any other new Trek property. You just can't be lazy or fill it with nonsense dog-whistles.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

The latter exactly. Because Spez and Reddit as a whole have refused to take action on them for literal years, they built up a critical mass, and were able to both plan a migration and do so successfully.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a_knife is a powermod sitting on 35+ subs and squatting. He just removed all the other moderators as of 10mins ago.I'm sure reddit will rectify this immediately. /sarcasm

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit bought AlienBlue, yes, but it didn't turn it into their own app. Their app doesn't even closely resemble AlienBlue. I still have no idea why they purchased it since they never used it.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So... Spez lied again. Please raise your hand if you're surprised?

Also they had a revenue sharing agreement that Reddit terminated in 2016 after Spez became CEO again?

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh interesting, it's not showing as a link for me. I've edited. Thanks for the heads up!

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Because it, as a massive problem instance for the alt-right to congregate, was allowed to build up and do whatever it wanted unfettered, once they did action it it was far too late. They immediately moved offsite to thedonald.win (which was r/thedonald 1:1), and continued their actions there. It allowed them to conglomerate, coordinate, and show each other that there was enough of them to try and pull off heinous shit.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 39 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Jan 6th literally was planned and executed on thedonald, which only got to the critical mass it did because reddit refused to handle it.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I agree. Hopefully that's something that can be added. Imagine we decided to hold a banner contest for a fancy new look, right? At the moment, nothing is stopping folks from remote communities we're tangentially linked to from brigading the vote to be a BoatyMcBoatface situation. Since each instance is it's own community that connects to a wider community, there really should be the ability to keep some things local.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This thread and the admin actions you had to take makes me wonder- is there a way to defederate a specific community within an instance to keep it 'private' to that instance? Like, why does the rest of the fediverse need to weigh in on feedback and suggestions or the admin log or ect inside another instance?

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