Porn Historically Decides Tech Adoption... Fediverse? (kbin.social)
Historically, porn has organically decided which platform or formats become dominant. It's incredibly anti-censorship, but walks many fine lines....
What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful (kbin.social)
At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
r/ZeroWaste mod talks about ongoing "plague of bots" spamming comments at an extremely high rate (media.kbin.social)
Reddit Migration (kbin.social)
The real #redditmigration starts the 30th or the 1st, I hope lemmy and kbin are ready for the traffic!
Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out (arstechnica.com)
Things to think about and lessons to learn.
Top of r/all (old.reddit.com)
Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a “current event” that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today’s or any recent time’s 24 hour news cycle....
I'm no climate scientist, but it looks to me like we might have skipped over oops. (media.kbin.social)
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. (kbin.social)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778407/reddit-cannot-survive-without-its-moderators-it-cannot
Reddit plagued with 1-star App Store reviews over API debacle as users search for 0-star button (9to5mac.com)
This is a great idea. Let's get as many one-star reviews up there as we can!...
r/TIHI has been banned for being unmoderated. (old.reddit.com)
As Reddit protests turn to porn-bombing, advertisers face increasing brand safety concerns (www.thedrum.com)
Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sales and ad revenue. (kbin.social)
most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...
The Threadiverse hits 100K active users, 2 weeks after reaching 50K. (fedidb.org)
The next 2 weeks...any predictions/bets on what it will be then?
I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin
Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....
Goodbye RIF - Talklittle's Goodbye to Reddit is Fun users (www.talklittle.com)
From the site:...
iOS Reddit app Narwhal not going anywhere
Narwhal developer believes they can keep the third party iOS Reddit app running with a subscription....
banning and defederating communities
Hey all, I recently left reddit like many of you. I have a question regarding lemmy and the fediverse on the history of banning and defederation. I have noticed several posts calling for varying communities to be disconnected. were these removal requests as prevalent before the mass migration? Usually I am all for communities...
I still appear on Google and I edited and deleted all my comments, this is BS! (www.google.com)
BS, I say!
Reddit to Teddit/Libreddit Redirect Userscripts (kbin.social)
I have been trying to avoid Reddit. However, I still often end up being forced to click on a link to a post while searching for something specific. It is a hassle to manually change the link to libreddit or teddit everytime....
Minecraft is leaving Reddit (media.kbin.social)
Lemmy & Kbin reaching 100k active users within days. (fedidb.org)
Looking at Fedidb.org the Fediverse Network Statistics, I'm seeing about 98,000 Active users as of the 27th. That's at least 50k new users this month. Welcome to Lemmy, fellow migrants!
Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts (www.cnbc.com)
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Random Account Suspension
Title is pretty much it. Woke up this morning to an email in the inbox with a reddit message notification from u/reddit...