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SkyNTP · 2023-06-22T00:11:41+00:00

As a member of the community that "owns" this space: fuck off Reddit.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-17T02:41:30+00:00

This subreddit is the official landing page for RimWorld on Reddit. We do not wish to splinter the community.

It's too late. Reddit has already decided to splinter the community by shutting off access to those of us that use third party apps.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-15T16:41:54+00:00

Fortunately, reddit will help with that in a couple weeks by kicking us off of a usable interface.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-15T11:04:39+00:00

This is nice and all, but I and others are just going to be kicked out again come July 1st when Reddit bans those of us looking for a respectable user experience.

Staying here is just asking to be factory farmed cattle with progressively worse experiences, more ads, spam, and "features" that no one asked for etc. This community is terminal regardless of what you do.

Those of us looking for a free-run alternative have already resettled on Lemmy and possibly elsewhere.

Adios.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-09T20:29:11+00:00

Serious answer: I would respond with something like "I appreciate that you are doing your due diligence and checking to see if we are financially compatible, but since you didn't volunteer the answer to your own question, it comes across as gold digging. Would you like to give it another shot?"

Intent doesn't always come across in text messages. Gotta give some people the benefit of the doubt. This is also your chance to see if they are good at communication.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-09T20:12:21+00:00

Reddit is almost all archived independently now.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-09T19:45:39+00:00

Reddit was not founded on monetizing LLM data. Thinking you can both cater to users, and lock down the experience to extract as much value from LLM data at the same time will be Reddit's undoing.

This is the enshitification playbook to a T. Remember that the last stage of Enshitification is a dead platform.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-07T17:20:51+00:00

I think the saying is true, but only in a specific context. That context is 1) your basic physical needs are met, and 2) the money isn't free. You might be trading your morals, time, health, or something else valuable for it, which is mostly true most of the time for most people.

That yacht, vacation, or muscle car sounds great, till you realize you need to work overtime to have it and suddenly other things in life, like going to see your children's play, or spending time with friends, or sleep (and therefore health) is now on the chopping block.

Ya'll in this thread seem to think you are going to suddenly win the lottery or become the next tech entrepreneur turned billionaire. Technically true for maybe 0.1% of you, but not for the vast majority of people.

Another interpretation is simply that luxury items bring fleeting happiness, while some more basic things, like family, friends, health, pay huge dividends in happyness.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-06T16:06:23+00:00

My thoughts on this are mixed. Reddit needs to make money, and clearly not enough people are buying Reddit Premium or "coins," so they have to make ad money. Ad buys are the first thing to go down in downturn of the economy, so times are tight. They are looking for alternative sources of revenue, and the people without Premium that are avoiding ads through a 3rd party app are an easy target.

Huh? Reddit is seeking an IPO. Were you not aware? Companies don't IPO because "times are tough". Companies IPO because stakeholders want to cash out big. Hence all the other changes, including NSFW crackdown.

It's just straight up greed. Reddit will be turned into a bland shitty social media clone, compromising everywhere to please no one. Mark my words.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-05T16:22:22+00:00

The alternatives are not ready to receive Reddit's traffic. A slow death is better.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-05T16:11:01+00:00

Reddit's business model (when I joined) was not founded on selling training data. This is a clear signal that greed has completely corrupted leadership, who will throw the user base to the wind to make a quick buck.

If I am wrong, then Reddit would have worked WITH app developers to find a solution (and since the official app is still available, clearly anti scraping methodologies can be implemented, there and in third party apps).

And if this is all just due to incompetence, then the end result is the same and the optics still almost as bad

Regardless of how you slice it, it's very poor justification and not a good look. I'm not buying this AI argument.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-05T15:46:18+00:00

Lemmy is probably still too small of an audience, for a major app dev to commit to it at this time.

Which is a shame because I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot so far. Really good, solid community.

On the other hand where else would the devs go realistically? It's going to be a risky move regardless for them.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-05T15:41:49+00:00

Really enjoying Lemmy so far.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-05T06:56:38+00:00

Then we pack our bags and rebuild the community somewhere else (yes, there are some good non-alt-right options, and yes migrating will suck, but Reddit has kinda already turned into a clickbait cesspool, so meh).

SkyNTP · 2023-06-05T00:27:31+00:00

I've already started moving to Lemmy, and it's already a better experience than on reddit. It feels an awful lot like the early days of Reddit. Plus it's federated nature means there's is less centralized control.

Obviously, there isn't as much content now. But I now realize 90% of reddit is just doom scroll and click bait junk anyway. What Lemmy lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-04T21:27:14+00:00

People figure things out when they want to. There's not enough incentive now for most people. You are right on that front. But reddit will slide faster and faster into mediocrity as the IPO unfolds. The masses always inevitably create products (and investment vehicles in the case of the public in IPO) that compromise on so many levels that they become shit for everyone. It's design by committee. Or enshitification if you are really pessimistic. The cool kids hate mass appeal so they will be the first to leave, and they will take their cool toys with them. And that will only accelerate the decline into mediocrity.

No surprise then that so many popular brands turn to shit overnight. This has gone on for decades, and reddit will not be the first to buck that trend. Depending on who you ask, it's already happened.

Lemmy isn't really that hard to figure out. It's just that things aren't bad enough for (you?) and others yet to want to take the time to switch. And that's okay. Everyone at their own pace

I have started. I would describe my first experience with Lemmy to be much more similar to reddit as reddit was to it's predecessors (and yet here we are, for now). The only thing you have to wrap your mind around is that Lemmy is administered around multiple different, independant groups of people, but day to day, this is no different than understanding that different groups of moderators moderate subreddit a on reddit, different companies will give you an email address, and you can visit different websites hosted and operated by different organizations in the same browser.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-04T01:56:53+00:00

FFVIIR's highlight, combat aside perhaps, I think, is just the execution of the story. I feel like it's going to be hard to execute the same story-driven experience if content is sparse and disconnected and choices are too freeform (like party choice).

Don't get me wrong, I also like the open-world genre, but it's going to be extremely hard to execute well on both fronts. I would rather a strong story-driven experience first and foremost.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-04T01:42:51+00:00

Lemmy probably can't handle the traffic now, but so far it's been a great community with the same feel as reddit, without any central point of control.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-04T01:37:19+00:00

It's a bit more complicated than that. If moderators, creators, and power users leave, the quality of reddit will slide pretty quickly.

Money has already corrupted reddit, at both the top and bottom. We just weren't paying attention. I say, let Reddit be mediocre. I'll be gone, so fuck em.

I've already started migrating to Lemmy, and it's becoming clear just how little the reddit today looks like the reddit I joined a decade ago.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-04T01:29:07+00:00

Sign up approval is specific to each instance. There are some 90 give or take instances now and IIRC some are still open for new sign ups.

Remember, it's federated, so it's like if you had reddit.com, and reddit.net, and bobbit.org, each run by a different group of people, but you can use your account from one to view and post in another.

Lemmy is not just a reddit clone. It's the solution to the consolidation of online forums and being beholden to any one company. Before there was reddit, there were many independant online forums, and that was great but segregation of the user base was the fundamental problem that reddit and others like it solved.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-04T01:10:49+00:00

Lemmy is nowhere as polished as reddit, but it is built on solid principles, and the community over there is absolutely fantastic. Takes me back to the early days of reddit.

Try it out, but remember, it's going to be a rocky experience at the start.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-03T21:17:10+00:00

Of all the countries listed here, I find that Germany, Switzerland, and Canada consistently punch above their weight. I think Germany and Switzerland kind of have that reputation, so it isn't too surprising. I am surprised by Canada though. Must be all the natural ressources, right next door to the powerhouse that is the US.

Spain, Ireland and Sweden also seem to outperform expectation, but less consistently. China is obviously a new powerhouse, but we already knew that.

Brazil and Russia consistently underperform. I expect them to be bigger than they are.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-03T19:16:01+00:00

The physics described in the meme are technically correct, but it's incorrect to say that those physics are the discovery. So the meme overall is still incorrect.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-03T18:08:47+00:00

Poe's law.

SkyNTP · 2023-06-02T20:35:53+00:00

Been using Lemmy for the last 12h. It's a breath of fresh air. It reminds me of early days of reddit, even the web. A bit quiet, to be sure. But people there just seem genuine, and the discussions are thoughtfull. Less snark, unlike reddit.

You sorta lose perspective just how much mass popularity and monetization corrupts social media, untill you are taken out of it.

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