[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the same with most ways that we euphemise or censor words. It's so pathetically redundant because everyone knows what the word is supposed.to be. You may as well have said it.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Nobody in the real world cares about this though. The only context in which this pyramid has has any veracity is in the extremely rare case where you have a group of people who are interested in useful outcome.

Generally, people argue for the appearance of having won, so will resort to any and all measures regardless of their argumentative quality. In fact, the lower below the belt you can go, the more you will resonate with the layman.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

So is this community just going through Reddit and verbatim reposting old threads?

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What are you doing to your phones mate? I've had two androids in the last 8 years and only because I dropped the first one under a bus.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

The fact that the Reddit API scandal has now been spun into some 'battle' of salty users vs Reddit is, in microcosm, a win for Reddit. By all appearances, when viewed under that lens, they 'won'.

It was never a struggle, it was a statement of intent. And that statement of intent has, in my opinion, been actioned because here we are now, with a promising alternative.

Reddit will probably flourish under its new guise, accepting that isn't a sort of capitulation. Just move on.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Give it time, man.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's my point. The fact they were suddenly asking for astronomical fees was conveniently skimmed over in favor of this 'greedy 3rd parties want stuff for free' narrative.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same setup Love it.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago

The blatant astroturfing is what really icked me out. From day one of the API changes, it was clear that Reddit had spun up the spin machine and had begun to misrepresent the issues.

The main one was how they tried to push the "they just want the API for free", "we're entitled to charge for our services" narrative.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can someone explain how Jerboa up/downvotes aren't karma? I don't quite understand how karma isn't already a thing here.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Everywhere Reddit goes, it takes the cringe with it, it seems.

[-] BobosGonnaeGetYe6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He also continues to stick the boot into Spez and Reddit to this day.

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