I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Use the report button if you see any of that too, we will not tolerate it here.

    Reddit thrives off of letting homophobes and transpbobes ruin everyone’s day, because it drives up their engagement numbers. We aren’t going to allow that here.

    • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is so relieving tbh its mindboggling to me why all these massive sites never took a stance against homophobes/racists/transphobes like this. its been proven to hurt profits when hate is allowed on any site as people dont like being abused like i swear it cant just be that the CEOs were complacent although its sadly a dumb enough reason to be true.

      Also been loving your app Dessalines its been great so far :D (if you tab out of the screen while writing though it does delete text but that aint a real issue though lol)

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Thanks! Ya spending any amount of time on reddit or in youtube comments is a hair-pulling experience.

        Huffman was always a white supremacist libertarian (and one of those ultra-rich preppers

        • Arystique@beehaw.orgOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh my lord was he one of the idiots that tried to get a study on how to force a militia group to serve them after an apolcolapse? I remember that story from years ago

          • GraceGH@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            Yep. My personal “favorite” quote from that article is incredibly telling of how spez thinks of himself.

            “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.” - Steve “spez” Hoffman

    • Sunspot@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s a real relief to me. I see enough of that living in a very red town in a red state. Online communities are one of my only ways to talk to people who don’t want me gone.