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dumptruckdan , to nostupidquestions in Why is there such a negative reaction to certain self improvement practices here?
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swimming upstream

I know you didn't mean it this way, but the context made me chuckle.

Also I commiserate with you OP, as I am part of a fashion community whose name we can't really change due to circumstances, but which attracts certain kinds of unwelcome attention online.

Edit: gahh I meant to reply to socialjusticewizard's comment

marco , to technology in Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?)
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And so, it begins old.reddit.com/…/new_admin_post_if_a_moderator_te…https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/57777d9b-990f-4340-9204-40f82421ba1a.png

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Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he’ll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Thursday that he wants to bring an end to a user-led protest that has made large parts of the influential website inaccessible this week. Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”

The protest took down thousands of message boards, known as subreddits, starting Monday, and some communities say they plan to continue the action indefinitely. The action has been led by Reddit’s unpaid, volunteer moderators, who have a high level of control over how their subreddits are run. Participating communities went “private,” making them unviewable even to members. The protesters oppose changes that will most likely cut off their ability to access Reddit through third-party apps, and their action has hobbled much of the site.

Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.

Reddit’s current policy says moderators may be removed by higher-ranking moderators or by Reddit itself for inactivity or violations of Reddit-wide rules. They may also remove themselves. Many have held their positions for years.

“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.

“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

Moderators have argued that the high level of control over their communities is well-deserved because of the hours of free labor they’ve put into making and enforcing rules on their subreddits. Any plan to reduce their influence might result in another backlash.

Huffman, who co-founded Reddit 18 years ago this month, said he believes the leaders of the protest may have had popular support when it started Monday but have lost most of it since.

4bh1j47 ,

Can users vote out the CEO?

GoodEye8 ,

Interesting point about the future of Reddit in that article:

Huffman said, however, that he’d like some form of revenue-sharing.

“I would like subreddits to be able to be businesses if they choose,” he said, adding that’s “another conversation, but I think that’s the next frontier of Reddit.”

The long-term goal is monetization of subreddits. I’m glad I won’t be there to see that happen.

bbbhltz , to linux in Which office suite are you using and why
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I’d say 95% Markdown + Pandoc for when I make documents. The other 5% is LibreOffice.

When it comes time to make graphs and charts I really like wasting my time so I always try out something new (or old) to get the job done. Last time I used Pygal.

When it comes to dealing with docs from colleagues, it is all LibreOffice and Zathura.

Zaphodquixote , to youshouldknow in YSK That if you delete your lemmy account, your comments/posts made on other instances will remain there forever.
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That’s true.

But, everyone should be working from the assumption that whatever they put on the internet is there forever anyway.

sandriver , to warframe in Mirage or Saryn?

I have two answers.

The first: fun factor.

Saryn is a great weapon platform that you can slap any weapon on and buff the heck out of. She can also spread spores that constantly degrade enemy health while they get in range of your guns. She’s great at every level of enemy durability, from star chart to long Steel Path runs. On scaling content, Saryn lives and dies by Molt and shield gating, although she’s very tanky for the first couple hundred levels.

Mirage is an evasive and parkour-based frame who necessarily locks you in to weapons with big hitboxes, radial effects, or homing and autoaiming capabilities, due to how her clones can’t aim. As long as you like moving a lot, I find Mirage a lot more chill on SP because I very rarely have to shield gate. Having to constantly be aerial and moving might be more taxing for some people though.

Having played both, I like Mirage a lot more. She’s one of the funny number frames of all time. I can’t argue that Saryn has some of the highest kills-per-minute potential in the game, though.

The second: functionality and numbers.

They both have their uses. Mirage can potentially balance personal power and party support with a range-based Total Eclipse build. I find she has a bit of a comfier pace due to the inbuilt evasion from Hall of Mirrors and her passive parkour boost. Both are good SO/ESO focus farmers.

I think the tie breaker is that Saryn can be built as an infinite scaling ability nuker for SP Circuit, whereas Mirage lives and dies as a weapon buffer.

rubikfrog , to ukcasual in Gotta get down on Friday
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We live in Edinburgh, where the schools finish at lunchtime, so I have about 3.5 hours of freedom.

And this weekend we’re going through to the Play Expo retro games thingy in Glasgow tomorrow! Last one was in 2019, so looking forward to that.

TeaHands ,
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Ah that sounds fun! We went to the one in Manchester a couple times, and there’s a smaller more local one called NERG which is usually a good time. I hope your venue is adequately air conditioned, that’s all I’ll say!

If you spot a Marble Madness machine give it whirl for me.

rubikfrog ,
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Can’t beat a bit of Marble Madness. I believe it’s in Braehead Arena which is used for Ice Hockey, so hopefully it has a beast of an AC system!

aspseka , to youshouldknow in YSK That if you delete your lemmy account, your comments/posts made on other instances will remain there forever.

Can’t you edit those comments?

randomperson ,
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I think after recent example of beehaw defederation it's possible that after instance defederates you lose control over your comments as they don't synchronise anymore.

BigPapaE ,

Yeah it seems like this only applies after defederation but idk

TrippySquidsman , to android in How to debug broken compass?
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I don’t know a whole bunch on the matter but it could be that the actual IC is damaged. As in, the mechanical components of it are broken or in a state that the IC can’t compensate for. Not sure what you can do other than replace the component…

Atemu OP ,
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Not 100% sure this device even has a chip. SatStat doesn’t show values for orientation; only for magnetic field which I heard Is used to emulate a compass but I’m really not sure.

mdwhite999 , to maliciouscompliance in How to close down Production 101

Did you end up returning to work for them?

sleepyducky OP ,

Oh hell no, I had already relocated to another city in the meantime. Plus the HR manager was present when I tendered in my resignation and said nothing. So no way I would return there

Otome-chan , to piracy in Recommended Torrent/Direct Download of pirated movies
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My secret is to have an ISP that is fine with piracy lmao.

I get all my movies from yts.mx though and haven't had issues. I also used rarbg but rip they're dead now.

mdwhite999 , to maliciouscompliance in [REPOST] Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

Is it legal for them to remove people’s accrued benefits?

dystop OP ,
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probably yes, if they give you time to use up the benefits.

corsicanguppy ,

Depends: Is it America?

Etoilebane , to cooking in What is your favorite meal using rice?

Over easy eggs and caramelized onion over day old rice is some of my favorite comfort food. Or garlic rice and eggs. Maybe some red hot dogs and banana ketchup on the side if I have 'em.

sourcery , to nostupidquestions in Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

Search for ‘Enshittification’ if you want a pretty good analysis of what’s going on. But basically greed, capitalism and the never ending pursuit of growth.

preciouspupp ,

Capitalism created reddit.

iByteABit ,
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Capitalism is good at creating things, but terrible at maintaining their quality over time, because at the end of the day profits don't always go hand in hand with product quality

odigo2020 ,

The sad truth. For example, Insta Pot has gone bankrupt recently because they built their stuff too well, and no one needed to buy more than one. Capitalism is the reason we have planned obsolescence and deliberately poor build quality of products.

makr_alland ,

Workers created Reddit, like everything else. Economic systems don’t create anything, only determine who profits from those creations.

BobKerman3999 ,

workers created the platform, Reddit is the content that is freely created by the community. see how now all the search results are useless because users deleted their own content, but the platform is still there.

Edit I just found out that all my content that I edited + deleted a week ago and wasn’t visible then, is back.

To check if your data is still available on reddit just do a Google search putting site:reddit.com and your username after it in the search box. Google has still the username in the cache so when you click on the link you’ll find your content under a “deleted” username.

makr_alland ,

You’re right, I should have specified I was referring to the platform. My point was against the dumb narrative that capitalism creates anything.

FloatingBye , to nostupidquestions in Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

Capital only looks out for itself. Online communities are a product to be exploited in the eyes of investors. The purse strings are getting tighter with rising interest rates, and investments that relied on potential are suddenly less exciting when the price to service goes up. Profit is king at the end of the day. It sucks, but that’s capitalism.

TempleSquare ,

But the good news is, tech is a highly disruptable industry. Barrier to entry is accessible for regular people.

And that’s why we’re here.

Reddit doesn’t die because we left. They die in a few years when the Fediverse just works better than Reddit. And we fund that.

Speaking of, how do I kick in a few bucks to help out various Lemmy servers? Anyone know?

RedditExodus ,
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I was able to donate to Ernest who runs kbin. I can't find the link at the moment but it is floating around here somewhere.

RomeCallen ,

its the little heart at the top of at least lemmy.world

aeternum , to nostupidquestions in Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

What are the dumb updates discord is doing? I haven't noticed anything different, except for the username change that doesn't have a gamertag anymore.

VoidCrow OP ,
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There is also that weird hidden alternate layout that is an ungodly eyesore (I think it can be accessed either in the settings or if you double click the sparkle emoji for some reason?) Admittedly I’m not as familiar with Discord’s issues, mainly heard others talking about it

ReCursing ,
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New layout? I've seen no hint of that and I use discord all the time

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