Hehe, the actual "old internet" resembles the fediverse of today, it's what we thought the internet was supposed to be back then. Once corporations found the internet, we got the bullshit we have today.
Reddit: You can't be private, people need to see the content, reopen or else!
TIHI: No.
Reddit: Fine, mods are gone and we've reopened the community. People who want to be mods speak up
Crickets: Cricket noises
Reddit: This sub is unmoderated, so it's now banned so nobody can see it
So... Reddit just reclosed the sub they said MUST be open.
Sound logic. Real class act.
Whenever people say "Somebody should do something!" they very rarely ever add "and the somebody is me"
"Far Right" and "Extremist" are not Christian. Christian is John 13:34
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."
That's what being woke is. Loving one another, regardless of how we may or may not have sinned.
Democracies work when the voting populace is educated and informed. Unfortunately, humanity willfully avoids being either in favor of opinion and bias.
@v13 Here's what I wrote to him, in case you're interested.
Dear /u/Spez,
I am tired of the value I provide as a contributor and user of Reddit not being fairly compensated while Reddit makes money. I'm gone until I start getting more money than you do for my content. It's not fair that you should be making money for something I freely provide.
Yeah, that's YOUR argument, funny how it doesn't go both ways, isn't it? You're such a hypocrite, and your ego has killed any desire for me to interact with Reddit anymore. You provide infrastructure, and you provide a name brand, and that's all you provide you arrogant little man. Your users provide all the value to Reddit, and they don't get paid either. Stop acting like you provide any fucking value, because you don't. You are pathetic.
I actually sent spez a private message on my way out, calling out what an arrogant hypocrite he is. He probably won't ever read it, but man it felt good writing it.
allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular. He said the new system would be more democratic and allow a wider set of people to hold moderators accountable.
blinks loudly What could go wrong? 🤣
Despite what advertising executives believe, the majority of us would gladly pay if it meant not having to deal with ads. I hate ads so much.
Once upon a time, people thought that it would be fun to have a place to learn and play and talk together, and the more people that came, the better they would all learn from each other. So they got together and built this place in one fixed spot. And they DID learn from each other, and it was fun and amazing. But some people were greedy and wanted to control all of it so that they could feel like they were better than everyone else. These greedy people forced the people to give them more and more money to be able to use the spot. The bad guys would treat the people who wanted to have fun badly, and use information about them against them. This made people sad.
Then one day, somebody said, "Hey, why can't we just have a bunch of little spots, so that nobody can hold us hostage?"
But the other people were afraid they wouldn't be able to play with some of their friends or learn from other people if everybody was separated. Until some people came up with the idea that all these small communities could agree to share everything they were doing with each other, small spot to small spot. Nobody owned all the spots now, and people were free to choose spots that were more convenient for them, without having to be afraid that others wouldn't be there, because all the small spots still made one big spot!
And that dear, is basically the fediverse in a nutshell. Now go to sleep, you have a big day tomorrow. tuck tuck
Aren't these the same people who claim that an unborn baby has every right to live, even if they're only like 4 cells and still dividing? Does like... that right to life just end once they're birthed? I really don't get how these people justify their stupidity.
Or "Just google it"