reddit is rage fuel. i’m so glad to be done with it. it seems everything written there is driven to make you upset or your day worse somehow.
Hate to say it, but Feddy verse is no different.
Nowhere is safe from the shrill endless war of shitty middle class Americans with nothing better to do than stink up every available channel with whatever you dumb shit politics they refuse to shut up about.
could be worse, they could be whatever dumbfuck you are from whatever dumbshit country you’re from with it’s dickfaced politics and shitbird opinions you post.
the crap is always browner on the other shoe, fuckwit.
Thanks for being a shining example of what the Fediverse is about.
NGL it totally depends. For general news/politics etc yeah.
Some of the more niche subreddits…Its definately much less of that and some of the folks that have been around, arent using default subs. My “home page” looks severely different from the default.
how bout that IPO now?
Probably the best written article I’ve read on this subject. All concerning things in the article that Reddit absolutely doesn’t care about. Canning milk? What the fuck.
Edit: I forgot that condensed milk is a thing…wondering if people can make it at home?
Mmm. Nothing I like more than a 5-year-old can of milk.
Ah yes, the 2018. That’s a good vintage. Aromas of pestilence and disease overwhelm the nose. An enticing menagerie of dumpster and botulism coats the palette with a subtle finish of garlic sharts lingering between sips. A pronounced effervescence from years of fermentation leaves a most pleasant mouthfeel. 95/100
Would that technically be a delayed action grenade?
Chemical warfare agent for sure
I always buy dehydrated/condensed milk in cans, is that not normal?
Oh I’m dumb lol…can you do that yourself?
Yes you can. Take milk, simmer for an hour. Thats basically it
Edit: step 3 would be NOT canning it. Keep it in the fridge like a normal person.
Take milk, simmer for an hour. Thats basically it
I feel like you’re one of the people this article is talking about.
Dromio05 showed me several posts he deemed questionable since Reddit took away his own mod badge. For example, this post shares a link to an article about “rebel canners,” which Dromio05 argues “gives a public platform to people who openly encourage methods and recipes that are known to be unsafe, like canning milk and open kettle canning.” The post is labeled unsafe, but Dromio05 would have removed the link to the article.
Now there’s a difference between cooking and canning.
You can safely make sweetened condensed milk in the home kitchen. What you can’t do is safely preserve it.
Safe: I want to make a key lime pie tonight, I’ve got my limes, I’ve got a pie crust, I’ve got my eggs…no sweetened condensed milk. Grocery store is closed too. Okay, but I’ve got milk and sugar, so I’ll just mix some sugar and milk in a saucepan and simmer it down, then I’ll use that to make my pie tonight.
Unsafe: I’m going to make a big ol’ batch of sweetened condensed milk, pour it into mason jars, boil 'em for ten minutes and put them in the cupboard so that it’s ready whenever I want a key lime pie.
There’s LOTS of stuff that’s safe to cook and eat immediately that’s not safe to put in jars on the shelf.
Thanks, I think I misunderstood the above, I thought they were saying you could make canned at home.
Never knew what was in key lime pie (it’s not much of a thing here), so that’s cool to know!
It’s not all that hard to make; you may have to substitute ordinary limes for key limes as they can be difficult to find in most of the world but you should give it a try.
What’s reddit?
Some sort of bad lemmy clone
Good. Fuck Reddit.
I love watching them crash and burn. Greedy dicks
They’ve definitely entered the second half of FAFO territory!
Or the third step in enshitification.
Dromio05 showed me several posts he deemed questionable since Reddit took away his own mod badge. For example, this post shares a link to an article about “rebel canners,” which Dromio05 argues “gives a public platform to people who openly encourage methods and recipes that are known to be unsafe, like canning milk and open kettle canning.” The post is labeled unsafe, but Dromio05 would have removed the link to the article.
Another cited example is this recipe for canned sauce. It includes already-canned tomatoes, which experts like the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP) recommend against, as there’s no safe tested process for this. The recipe also includes nuts, though the USDA doesn’t have any recommendations for canning nuts, and NCHFP and other experts advise against canning any nuts besides green peanuts.
No comment. Moderators are the key to Reddit’s success, and they have been treated like shit and will continue to be treated like shit.
Jesus. I can from time to time, I used to be a regular on /r/canning. The attention to detail re food safety was one of the best things about the sub, as you really can kill yourself and others if you piss about.
Botulism is nothing to fuck around with. I’d rather play with something safe like burning thermite than that stinky crap ever again.
Botulism has no smell, taste or colour change though.
Won’t someone think of the poor landed gentry!?
How did volunteers who run reddit’s for-profit business for them for free end up equated with landed gentry?
That’s a really good question to ask Reddit’s CEO as he is the one who said that.
I think you’re responding to a half-assed attempt at sarcasm. It was spez who originally called mods landed gentry.
Maybe so! Always hard to say with the range of opinions I see on the internet these days
I’m certainly not defending spez and I wholeheartedly agree that this business model is daft, but with all that said… for every responsible dedicated knowledgeable reddit mod, there’s a dozen who find fulfilment in being fief lords.
It was all fun and games until reddit threatened to de-mod them, then suddenly “for the good of the community” they decided that bending over was the only option.
The purpose of reddit is to keep people engaged while seeing ads. That’s it.
100% correct. It’s a powerful illusion because back in the day it was a real site with real people on it. It’s taking some folks a long time to pick up on this.
There is almost no real content on there. If it’s not a bot / AI, it’s some shill with an agenda. It’s all about the ads and clicks.
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Upvotes and downvotes on ads are just cosmetic, they don’t do anything.
Anything but. They’ll be using that feedback to profile you, to better target ads at people like you. It’s like Facebook’s “I want to see less ads like this”. It’s to give an appearance of control. But really it implicitly means “show me more of what I didn’t reject”. Even if you’re there anonymously they’ll be associating any interaction you make with the ad with the subs you visit, the types of comment you make etc
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It hurts their feelings, sometimes that’s enough
Or even better, block them.
it’s odd because I find lemmy more engaging, but perhaps its because of clickbait discussions that come up on the first page.
Lemmy is built for the community. Reddit just wants you to stay long enough to look at ads.
Wait, reddit has ads?!
Good grief, thank God I left
Try the official app. It’s awful.
Replace “reddit” with any free service. Welcome to the Internet.
And before you “ackshually Lemmy” me, someone is paying for it. Perhaps even you, if you’ve donated to your home instance.
People donating aren’t pushing shitification in search of profits though…
I know we all are in rage about reddit’s fuckery, but this says nothing about the state of the website.
we already knew reddit was not the objective truth or wikipedia, but mostly an echo chamber. incrementing the check on the information objectivity will NOT hamper reddit’s growth. we’ve already seen other social media thrive without the weight of fact-checking or their intended purpose (facebook, instagram, I’d dare to say the new twitter as well).
I as all of you would love to see reddit bomb so badly that they’ll all end unemployed and spez under a bridge sleeping with cardboard sheets, but that’s not going to happen soon.
we should stop looking at how badly is reddit doing, and start watching at how to make Lemmy a better reddit instead.
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This. The whole circlejerk about how much better Lemmy is and how people are so glad they left reddit is getting really old, really fast. Meanwhile, any interesting post that would be normally spur fervent and meaningful discussion on reddit has maybe a dozen comments on Lemmy, most of them low effort. Heck, this exact same article on reddit’s r/technology has 10x more comments and way more total engagement.
The spam and toxicity here are the same as on reddit with a different tone. Lemmy is just another echo chamber with a different coat of paint, and the only differences are a lack of ads and way less people and diversity to interact with.
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Yea. I felt like the article was just nitpicking about not much change at all. Just past mods reminiscing? The nut graph of the write up was not great to begin with and the body wasn’t really news…
I don’t even think about Reddit anymore. Let it fade into obscurity.
Yeah I haven’t been back once since they blocked Sync. Hopefully it rots and dies, just like Digg before it.
Delete your account
Delete your account
Look at the quality of mods they’re getting.
The r/diving subreddit got a mod who claim to be an avid diver with 21 dives across 7 oceans. And the subreddit drama link
I’m still not convinced that the /r/diving mod wasn’t trolling the admins with that post.
That mod is hardcore powertripping, lol. Why do people get so puffed up for being essentially forum janitors? At least 4chan mods could take it on the chin when the community made fun of them. Reddit mods have the thinnest skin and the arbitration skills of Judge Dredd.
I got irritated with the asshole mods on AITH and gave myself a new alt aita_mods_are_all_incels. They really really didn’t like that, some incel girl mod actually sent a message saying she’s not and deleted it.
Fucking tools the lot of them.
One day, I had to tell someone that they should research pet safety before giving other people pet safety advice. This person was recommending people to feed their dogs things that are well known to seriously poison and harm them. Apparently, according to that person, all dogs can eat anything because their grandma’s one dog was fine.
I responded with links showing that the food was in fact harmful, and a lovely mod banned me for “arguing”. It filled me with rage. Not because I was banned, but because the OG misinformation was still up, but all of the corrections were removed. Other people’s comments correcting it were removed, too. Fuck accurate information intended to keep pets safe, I guess.
I hope that the random people who saw the post looked it up before trusting that person.
Reddit went from “I append site:reddit.com when querying google for well-founded and nuanced info” to the opposite.
That user is the alt of a well-known troll. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Insert pikachu face
We find that our deeply engaged users are quick to challenge and downvote harmful or misleading content across the platform.
Yeah, right.
They forgot the “unless it supports their bias” part.
All 7 of them. The other 993 will upboat it for having a meme in the comment
I wonder what will happen if I fire my volunteer work force
You can’t fire me, I quit!
Personally I just stopped going to Reddit and don’t even check the mod queue. I’ll let it burn to the ground.
Is there really a community named reddit here? I came here to not be on reddit…
You could block the community (I think - we can certainly do that on kbin, not sure about lemmy).
Better to keep it contained. You’ll see the same article posted to less specific communities. Ideally it would all be here and you could just block the whole community.
Some people like to watch the news, some people like to stop and look at car accidents… some people like to watch reddit.
This community has a low enough volume that when I notice it, it’s interesting.
