I've been using RIF and old.reddit.com for as long as they existed. Reddit since the big Digg transition. Hope to never see the same happen to Lemmy!!

Yup! I recently read about aboriginal tribes doing controlled burns during the winter, rainy seasons etc. They even noticed certain plants would grow more afterwards, attract certain animals etc

In other news, water is wet!

We used to have laws and regulations in place for stuff like this, same with the USA. As years passed they lost their teeth

Wait so the US is lying to you because they're financially supporting Ukraine & with weapons, while they're being fucking invaded, because Poland (an independent nation) decides to send ground troops into Russia (maybe to slow down the invasion of Ukraine???)

Seems to me like you're operating under the assumption that the United States of America runs the entire world. They don't.

Rules for thee but not for me.

It's god damn everywhere these days

Unless if they be milling grain those are turbines if I'm not mistaken

Don't worry, they will notice a difference when the content eventually stops or drops in quality, or at the very least a large portion of it will move here

As for the app thing, they're clearly ignorant and don't know what they're missing. That or they grew up with gross filtered feeds that were literally engineered to be toxic and addicting. Even I remember how addicting that shit was before they went a bit too crazy with ads and irrelevant posts. Used to be you could scroll and scroll thru Facebook and you wouldn't run out of interesting posts from friends, groups etc. Now it's all pages I don't even like or follow. Adpocalypse 2.0

Neckbeard. Mouthbreather. "Retard" - third page of /r/all and I dgaf if it's /r/nbacirclejerk but the word "retard" should NOT be on the third "front page of the internet" with almost 5 thousand upvotes. This comment is extremely ignorant, it's the way a bully talks, and it's far too normalized. The go touch grass comment would be borderline lol, you're clearly angry and upset - and I completely believe there are ways to use colorful extremely foul language while if not maintaining respect, coming from a good place.

It's a slippery slope when certain levels of toxicity are allowed, and I hope that the moderator team my local group eventually develops understands this and finds balance. We don't need to be toxic posivity nazis, but everyone should be expected to discuss, agree to disagree with a basic level of mutual respect, no?

Too many times I've complained to the KingstonOntario moderator team. Too many times I see them ngaf, while they're constantly very active in a bunch of other subs, personal finance, wallstreetbets (I have a lot of mixed feelings about those groups of people, there's investing in businesses you believe in them there's the other 80% of the stock market which is gambling on the livelihoods of others).

I'll be damned if the KingstonOntario group here doesn't evolve into an actual safe space, IMO we don't need an LGBTQ group like there is on Reddit but if our friends, family, and neighbours need their own space to feel safe and welcome then I'm all for it.

I've been using Reddit since before it blew up, I still remember using Digg every day in my last years of high school and first years of college. It brings me back to the days of Kingston Computer Planet (they had an awesome forum). I've watched global movements like Occupy Wall Street rise and fall. I've watched Ukranians post maybe a few too many "bad ass" drone cottage clips where they drop bombs on brainwashed Russian teenagers while they take a shit or catch some z's (don't get me wrong, fuck Russia, I was very happy to see the footage where they used a drone to guide a Russian solder to surrender while his Russian comrades fired at him). I worked with a team or two when the first /r/place event took place which was awesome and historical. I've watched as the Reddit admins started what they're finalizing now, when they started adding prediction posts or whatever that I couldn't properly view in rif. I tried to like the new interface but I'm almost inclined to redirect www.reddit.com URLs to old.reddit.com from my router or windows network config instead of just manually editing all my bookmarks and whatnot, and I totally would if the platform wasn't dying.

Sadly I think it's just a sign of the times, let's call it late LateStageCapitalism, as we move forward the focus will be even more and more on profits while providing minimal levels of goods or services. If corporations can find a way to charge us to breathe, they will. The ones that seem like they won't, will just be providing regular necessities and make us feel like we're getting something back with coupons, sales, rewards programs... but no matter the appearance or the feeling we have these giant faceless corporations will continue to bring in historically high record profits, siphon wealth into the hands of the few, while stagnating wages as productivity somehow continues to find ways to go up and up.

Arrrr matey, I code all my pirate maps in base64. I suggest ye do the same, matey. Arrrrrrrggggh 🦜

😂 this is why I avoided programming, focused on hardware, and ended up cooking in kitchens lmao.

I was never a fan of sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen all day, even if I was good at it. Even with how complex hardware is these days, it feels more orderly and defined, if there's m wrong with your rig, it's most likely x, y, or z causing it, and it's almost always x etc

If the CEO got caught editing comments and posts, how do I know he didn't just pretend to be a defunct mod lol

Probably because it's one of their front page subs? My guess at least. Maybe the CEOs favorite 🤣

And yet I read something about them taking over one of the popular subs (adviceanimals or something) and removing all the mods and making it public again...