Will a critical mass be reached where we can create our own communities? At least at beehaw that seems to be handled top down, we had a poll asking what we’d want - does it work that way everywhere? I’d like a local area community, but as you say, who’d participate? I might be it.

Looking at the tracker comments seem to reaching parity with posts again, as they were pre-blackout. For the two days of the protest 67% of subs were private, yet posts hardly deviated from the norm - and comments only slightly below. Is the implication that people in subs that didn’t join in like r/news etc just posted/commented that much more in a show of support ha ha ha, or is this a de facto admission that much of the site’s traffic is just bots? Are investors down with that? I haven’t seen this actually hashed out in discussions much.

There’s another sub with GPT in the title, r/subGPT or something. The subreddit simulator always amused me, it was blatantly artificial - the content on this new one made me queasy, it was precisely the kind of one note jibber jabber we’d skim past constantly.

They never shut down, along with a few other biggies. TiL just reopened.

That was Yahoo! Answers. Quroa is…a titch better.

I wonder if things are as tense as was shown in that video from reddit HQ.

Looking at the Blackout Tracker it seems a few subs have folded early - r/adviceanimals and r/travel being the largest. Also the news subs and random ones like r/movies or r/photoshopbattles never joined in - were they not on board of their own choice, or controlled from on high?

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

Power Deleted mine yesterday. The idea of them making $$$ for AI training is creepy.

I’d like to be able to hide the story summaries on community pages, so you just see the topic. Reddit was super compact that way, which I really preferred. This was constantly abused too, of course…

I read that people were really impressed with how dedicated the RiF developer is working on their app - bugs or features were reported and bam! Fixed asap. I mean to join up at Tildes when they have another bidding round, it is interesting in its own way - same with Squabbles.

Didn’t know we had an app. The RiF developer is working on an app for Tildes, which bums me out, RiF was my weapon of choice.

I’ve only convinced one real life friend to become interested in reddit, I asked her if she’d heard about all the drama there, and found out she’d been using the official app all this time…she was super shocked when I told her the stories about peoples’ phones heating up using that thing.

Rebelling moderators, we have a special jail for rebelling moderators.

A couple times a day when I go to kbin they Cloudflare me…kinda irritating. beehaw or Squabbles are down with a VPN dropping by, apparently. Or whatever’s at work here.

It’d be fitting if admin u/CorrectScale’s response became the boilerplate response to anyone trying to use 3rd party apps post July 1st.

First Post! As we used to say on /. Actually this is the first thing I’ve posted on Lemmy, period. Old time slashdotter, then I was on reddit for years, but see the writing on the wall. I too really liked the cogent and thoughtful lowdown on what you’re aiming for, and wish you the best. There’s a whole army of really sharp people who want to help you out, and good on all of you!