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Crabhands, in How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?
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Pros:

  • my friends join
  • larger community = more content
  • meta funding would likely contribute to fediverse growth and improvements
  • any instance can defederate them from said instance, which would mitigate almost every con

Cons:

  • Meta is evil and wants all your information to profile you and sell to other companies for profit
Weird_With_A_Beard, in Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?

sadly... yes. I'm just not finding the community here that I built up there over 11 years. I know, I know, give this 11 years and we'll get there, too... but it's still over there.

I did the whole "delete all comments and posts and replace with the API reasoning text" thing, for my main and my few alts. BUt I find I still am heading over there on browser through old.reddit and lurking.

Greg, in Why vote on posts?
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Voting creates a signal about the quality of a post so other users can rank posts based on the collective perspective. You don't vote for yourself, you vote to help other users.

rollingFlint, in Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?

No, I won't return.

This whole episode taught me the importance of diversifying the online communities/platforms that I use, and how NOT to rely on a single platform controlled by a for-profit entity.

From now on, it's communities based on open platforms first for me, and proprietary ones the distance second and only if I really can't avoid it.

xtremeownage, in Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?

…xtremeownage.com/…/what-happened-to-reddit/

100% fuck u/spez.

They have messed up pretty badly, and anyone who still trusts them, is wearing a blindfold.

cwagner, in Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?

When this started? Yeah, no question. Too few people here, crappy UI.

A few days ago? Maybe. Same issues, but reddit would have to do a ton including firing fuckhead.

Now? No way. I unmodded myself even from the tiny communities I was modding that will never exist here. This company now sits believe Facebook in my estimation.

_haha_oh_wow_, in Why vote on posts?
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The intent is to rank whether something is a useful/meaningful/worthwhile contribution or not.

madmaurice, in What is Kbin?
@madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This should give you an overview: https://kbin.social/about

Steinsprut, in What is Kbin?
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Yeah, it's another platform, heavily inspired by wykop.pl, which combines reddit-like link aggregation and twitter-like Mikroblog

MustardCabbage, in Is it possible to set Lemmy (web) to show "Subscribed" posts by default?

yes, it's in 'Settings', in the drop down menu under your username. Scroll down to 'Type' and 'Sort Type', and you can set your defaults to whatever you want.

trachemys, in How do I block entire instances?

I don’t think users can block an instance. But you can uncheck “show nsfw” in your settings.

Kyoyeou, in Do you need to vent about something?
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The world is way too loud, and people don't seem to care about it, blocking the problem with Noise Reduction but not at the source of the problem

Haily, in Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?

Nope. Not a chance. I have no love for giant corporations, and Reddit has always been particularly shit even by that standard. Say what you want about the evils of Meta / Google / Apple, ETC ETC ETC, but at least they generally try to keep their users happy, or at least using their platforms. Reddit just seem to have absolutely no idea what their users want half the time, Reddit premium anyone? The way they handled, or rather failed to handle, the accessibility issue also leaves a rather bitter taste in my mouth.

lysistrata, in Why vote on posts?

Upvoting a post releases the Good Chemicals in the brain. You do this when you would like the person who made this contribution to do more of that.

Downvoting, in turn, produces the Bad CHemicals. The downvote button was famously invented to replace the previous disincentivizing mehchanism, Hammers.

LollerCorleone, in In your opinion, what is a thing that lived up to the hype it had or still has?
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Smartphones.

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