Anders429 @ Anders429 @lemmy.world

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I actually had to temporarily block the memes community because of this. Sorting by hot resulted in nothing but memes, and it was driving me crazy that they were doing the whole "post old memes" thing.

I'm with you, but judging by the number of upvotes this post got, apparently we're in the minority on this.

I love how you didn't even read the sidebar of this community and just posted whatever you wanted anyway.

Yes, because bicycles sharing the lane with cars for random stretches works so well. No one's life is in danger here! /s

And it sounds like Jefferson was already familiar with it anyway, if he was thinking it was the best system. I find it very doubtful that the only holdup was that there was no one to demonstrate it.

My first job was as a seasonal delivery helper for UPS during the holidays. We would work crazy days, 8 am to 8 pm usually. We wouldn't even stop for lunch, I would take bites of food I had brought between stops. I figured that was just the way things were, never had a job before that.

When I saw my paycheck, I noticed they were taking out time for both lunch breaks and other breaks that were required by law. I never took a single one of those breaks, because the driver I worked with didn't. I felt powerless to complain, because I really needed a job, but looking back it pisses me off to no end. That was blatant theft of my time.

Assuming you live in a bike-friendly area. Bad biking infrastructure means you're basically risking your life every time you go out on one.

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Rule #1 in internet privacy: don't assume best intentions of anyone. Just because it is open source does not mean whoever hosts the instance didn't modify the source.

I've mostly seen it in r/ModCoord, where a lot of discussion around Reddit protests goes down. Lately I think the mods there have been trying to stop it, but it definitely shows. These are the ones I assume are bots, or at least some of them, judging by the way they argue.

The other random place I saw it was r/PokemonROMHacks when it reopened. People there were super critical of the mods, and I think it's mostly because they aren't users who normally use reddit and are only there to try to download and troubleshoot Pokemon hacks. To them, the mods making the sub private seemed incredibly selfish.

I think you accidentally responded to the wrong comment. I assume you meant to respond to the comment below asking whether spez was with Reddit since the beginning.

I think they do understand this, to a point. That's why they keep threatening their mods instead of outright removing them.

I have no idea what you're even talking about.

I wonder if public freakouts was told to remove the NSFW tag. That sub definitely should have been NSFW all along.

There is a whole set of users who apparently think the mods are in the wrong and that Reddit is right. Whether these are real users, and not armies of bots using ChatGPT to generate content, is up for debate. (But they're definitely bots lol)

They're going to have to stop at some point though, because they need moderators. The platform can't function without them. That's why they're sending these warnings in the first place, instead of just removing entire teams.

What's crazy is that Reddit admins have so much more to lose by removing these moderators than the mods themselves do, but the mods have somehow convinced themselves that they have to stay, no matter how bad it is.

Relevant article: https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf

It was this bad a few months ago when I used it as well. I saw almost nothing but gambling ads.

Or don't use it.