There is something I don’t understand with people who rant about Reddit: if you hate it so much, why do you stay there?

I had a Reddit account myself. I wasted it and moved on. I certainly don’t torture myself with it anymore: the communities here on Lemmy are smaller but they’re a lot nicer to be a part of, so it’s a no-brainer.

I don’t know if it has any legal value, but here’s what I’ve been doing with online services that really matter (not Reddit, I don’t give a shit about Reddit, but things like my bank):

I read the TOS - which, in the case of actual serious online services, tends to be shorter - and I make a note of anything I don’t like in it. Then I click agree, then I send an email to info@, support@, legal@, webmaster@ and whatever other vaguely relevant email I can find in the TOS’ issuer’s domain telling them this:

"I clicked okay because I needed to do XYZ and there was no button to discuss your terms or disagree. But I disagree with the following points. Here are my counter-conditions:

[…]

If you disagree with my conditions, please send me or my lawyer - who is copied on this email - your counter-proposal within 1 (one) week. If you do not sent me or my lawyer an email within 1 (one) week, I shall consider my conditions accepted, legally binding and superseding the relevant sections of your original TOS."

And I copy my lawyer.

I’ve never gotten any reply, because no actual human reads those email addresses. If anything comes up, I’ll pull the counter-email I sent them with my conditions, which they agreed to by not answering. I’ve never had to use them, but I really wish I’ll get the opportunity to test them in court some day, just for shits and giggles.

And yes, I have enough disposable to pay a lawyer to do this kind of shit. I’m a spiteful man when it comes to tech companies, and I’m quite ready to bankrupt myself to fuck them in the ass.

I used to like cocaine, but I hated the addiction and I hated what it did to my nose.

But here’s the thing: you can’t have cocaine without the side effects. So I chose to stop cocaine. It’s less fun in the short term, but getting your life back together and enjoying the simple pleasures in life more than make up for it in the long run.

You need to choose Reddit with the side effects, or no Reddit and work on making Lemmy fun. You can’t have the Reddit hit without the side effects.

But if you put in the effort of trying to make Lemmy fun, it’ll be more rewarding, and it will help rebuild worthwhile communities away from Reddit for the benefit of everybody.

Up to you.

I know you jest, but pirates - real ones - were among the most honest people there was with one another. They were honest mainly because if they weren’t, they quickly walked the plank.

Also, pirates shared the loot a lot more equally than modern capitalists share the wealth today, and they set up one of the first form of mutualised social security system in the world. You can read more about it in this article.

In short: I would trust Reddit pirates a lot more than I’ll ever trust Reddit itself.

This boggles the mind on two levels:

• Who the hell pays for Reddit upmods?
• If the point is to convince other Redditors to pay for something scammy, who the hell parts with any amount of money on the basis of something posted on Reddit?

Everybody knows you shouldn’t talk about periods, silly.

Wow… The land of the free is really starting to fell like 1933 Germany now…

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I’ve been very busy on Reddit lately: I actively deleted my entire posting history by hand recently - which took a long time - and I’ve taken to removing all my posts and comments the next day, or after whoever the comment was destined for most likely read it. And yet despite all my activity of late, I’ve not unlocked any achievement. How odd 🙂

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Strange because the first thing I see when I open my profile in a private window is that single community I moderate.

It’s nice of you to want to help but it’s the kind of community you typically join only when you’re unlucky enough to be concerned 🙂

I’m all for staying here on Lemmy: Lemmings are nicer than Redditors and the place is a lot higher S/N ratio.

But… sadly, due to inertia, Reddit is still where a lot of stuff is squarely at. There are long-established Reddit communities - often nice, well behaved communities - that don’t give a toss about the Reddit drama, and are simply not interested in moving out.

I’ve been trying to kickstart an equivalent Reddit community here on Lemmy for almost a year. While there’s a handful of members, it’s basically just me infrequently posting in it. The original one on Reddit has almost 10K members, is fairly active, and clearly none of the members know anything about Lemmy - much less want to create an account and join my insignificant equivalent community. I keep it around in case Reddit enshittifies to such an extent that even those who don’t care start taking notice. But at the moment, inertia is much too strong.

Ahead of the Reddit IPO, I’m finally done purging most of my Reddit posting history and subtly modifying the rest to poison whatever AI is trained on it.

I have no doubt Reddit didn’t really delete any of the posts I deleted, but I am hoping the poisoned information will find its way verbatim to an AI’s training set.

The problem with people who have strong convictions is that they often have a simplistic, polarized view of everything that allow neither subtlety, nuance nor meaningful discussion.

Usually it’s pointless and frustrating to talk to such people because you know they’re not trying to share ideas, nor are they open to questioning their own beliefs, but rather they’re just telling you how things are and never listen to you.

Exactly like religious people in fact - which I avoid like the plague also, for the same reason.

Politically-engaged anyone anywhere tends to be toxic.

I avoid people with strong political convictions like the plague.

From TFA:

moderator u/Mcgillby. On-chain data reveals that this moderator transferred more than 100,000 MOON over two different transactions on the Arbitrum Nova blockchain, turning it into more than $23,000

If there’s a dollar sign, it’s not play money anymore and the FTC should get involved.