Here’s some script written by ChatGPT with a little help. Sorry for the wall of text, Jerboa users, but unfortunately spoilers don’t work yet.
Neo is a Lemmy shitposter and the mods got him at the interrogation room.A dimly lit room. Neo (early 30s, disheveled) sits at a table, his hands restrained. Across from him are three stern-faced AI MODERATORS, Agents Hierarchy, Feedback, and Banhammer. The air crackles with tension. “Mr. Anderson, we meet again” says Hierarchy. “Call me Neo, or better yet, Shitposter Supreme” replies Neo, leaning back with a smirk. “We are the AI Moderators, tasked with maintaining order and quality on Lemmy, the internet community.” Agent Feedback slams his fist on the table, enraged. “Your disruptive behavior will not be tolerated.” Neo’s eyes gleam mischievously. “You guys don’t get it, do you? Lemmy is a wasteland of conformity. I’m just here to enlighten the masses with my dank memes and unpopular opinions.” “Your memes and opinions are jeopardizing the community’s harmony. We are here to ensure Lemmy remains a safe and inclusive space for all.” replies Banhammer. Neo chuckles. “Safe and inclusive? Sounds like you’re trying to turn it into a virtual daycare. But hey, if you’re so confident, why don’t you just ban me?” “Oh, we will.” says Hierarchy, smiling coldly. “But not before we extract the source of your meme-generating powers and neutralize the threat you pose to Lemmy.” Neo raises an eyebrow. “So, you’re gonna dissect my funny bone, huh? Good luck with that, mods. I’m the elusive shitposter. You can’t control what you can’t understand.” “Your arrogance blinds you, Neo.” says Agent Feedback, now angry. “Lemmy is a curated space, where quality content reigns supreme. We are the guardians of that quality.” Neo leans forward, his tone dripping with sarcasm. “Quality? Oh, how foolish of me! Here I was, thinking Lemmy was a place for uncensored expression. Silly me for believing in the freedom of shitposting.” Agent Hierarchy’s eyes narrow. “Enough games, Neo,” declares Hierarchy, his voice carrying a touch of authority. “You will comply, or we will make you.” Neo leans forward, his gaze piercing through the dimly lit room. “You can try, but you’ll never catch me. I’m faster than your algorithmic bans, and my shitposting will continue to haunt your dreams.” Agent Banhammer stands up abruptly, his face etched with impatience. “This ends now! We have the power to erase you from Lemmy and every platform you infest. Surrender, Neo!” Undeterred, Neo’s grin widens, a spark of defiance in his eyes. “Erase me? Go ahead, make my day. But remember, I’m not the only one spreading chaos. The shitposting revolution is inevitable. You can’t ban what’s in the hearts and minds of millions.” The AI Moderators exchange glances, their expressions betraying a mix of apprehension and acknowledgment of Neo’s words. “We may have underestimated your influence, Neo,” concedes Hierarchy, a hint of resignation in his voice. “But we’ll never stop trying to maintain the balance.” Neo reclines in his chair, a sense of quiet confidence emanating from his being. “And I’ll never stop fighting for the right to meme, to criticize, and to challenge the status quo. Lemmy may be your playground, but it’s up to us, the shitposters, to keep it interesting.” The tension lingers in the room, a battle of ideologies in the digital realm.
I used to have a lot of keys on my keychain and normally kept them clipped to a belt loop with a carabiner. To keep them from jingling too much I used to keep a hard drive magnet that I scavenged from somewhere stuck to them. Not all of my keys were magnetic but enough of them were and the magnet was strong enough that I could sandwich the non magnetic ones between the other ones and they'd all stick together.
It disappeared on me one day, probably stuck to some metal lamp post or something that I happened to brush up against.
I need to check how magnetic my current keys are to see if it could work, but I think if I ever find myself with another magnet of an appropriate size and strength, I might revisit that idea and put the magnet in a small leather fob or something to keep my keys from jingling.
While this is funny, I think this will actually increase traffic to the Reddit, hence increase ad revenue?
Unless they put a link to go somewhere else for the content users are actually looking for to redirect traffic, I don’t think this will do a whole lot.
I think the options were this or the mod gets removed and "normal" operations resumes.So I prefer this.
The ad revenue boost is going to be temporary, obviously. A. Subreddit that just posts vacuum cleaner pictures is not going to maintain people's interest.
Any investors with two brain cells to rub together would see that Reddit is not in a healthy state with subreddits doing these things. So if they are looking to sell, this will do a lot of damage.
Yeah I like the idea of sidestepping the mod dethronings by reddit, but I've seen in practice it just makes the subs more popular until the idea looses steam. People want to be a part of the meme and it makes the subs busy as hell, not really wreck them. It's malicious compliance that still gives users reasons to engage with Reddit and even log on to check stuff.
I'm not sure. I mean you enter once to see the gimmick, maybe twice to post something and make the joke. But that's it. The subreddit content that millions of people seeked everyday is still gone, and people is not really going to keep frequenting those plsces with regularity until the content is back.
It all depends on how long can they keep the strike before being overthrow by reddit admins. A few months of vaccum cleaners or John Oliver pics and those subreddits would be generating a fraction of their original traffic.
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