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[-] Tinawebmom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Remember secret Santa?

I was talking to my tech kids (programmers for a very well known company) I told them how puzzled I was. The guy that created secret Santa was gung-ho to create a new one the second reddit announced they were closing it down. Then he disappeared.

The kids then explained non-compete and why it's always included with contracts.

Reddit closed secret Santa down but wouldn't let him bring a similar thing back.

Why? What is wrong with them?

PS this is conjecture only I haven't spoken to him as he truly is MIA

[-] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Secret Santa was back when Reddit still had a semblance of community, which I realize now means trust. I’d never trust a Reddit secret Santa these days. Heck, I’ve done successful 4chan secret Santa’s and I’m still not brave enough to want a modern Reddit secret Santa.

[-] GeekFTW@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Least with a 4chan secret santa I'd know there's an 80% chance of my gift being poop and cum instead of being surprised by it.

[-] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I actually ended up getting a really nice and thoughtful gift.

[-] GeekFTW@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

undefined> (And cookies which I absolutely did not eat.)

Smart!

[-] CadeJohnson@toot.cat 1 points 1 year ago

@setsneedtofeed this is not news! This is ?? You are destroying your "brand" - who wants to subscribe to this?

[-] bug@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Mate, why are you posting on random comments complaining about them being news? What are you on about?

[-] CadeJohnson@toot.cat 1 points 1 year ago

@bug well, it turns out lemmy and mastodon are not quite as compatible as hoped. I subscribed to a lemmy community from mastodon, and every comment to every news items shows in Mastodon as though the community owner boosted it. I mistakenly thought the comments were being boosted by moderators of the news community - totally my bad. I have unsubscribed now until some day when they fix that (for each news item I was getting that I wanted, I was also getting about ten comments - out of context in time order - with the rest of my feed; not a good user experience!)

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