Reddit Refugee

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Cake day: Jun 16, 2023

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Since moving to kbin.social from Reddit I have been 10 times more active in posting because I want the platform to be successful and engaging. It’s been a very refreshing change, but it only works if you participate.


I don’t know; I don’t go on Reddit any longer.

That said, r/worldnews was very pro-Ukraine. It could be that subreddit the Russians are referring to as well.


Putin might find some old Soviet Era Roubles underneath his grandmother’s floorboards. It might be worth more than current Roubles.


Russia fines Reddit for first time over 'banned content,' RIA says
Russia on Tuesday fined social media site Reddit for the first time for not deleting "banned content" that it said contained "fake" information about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, RIA reported on Tuesday, citing a Moscow court. EDIT Edited meme for spelling
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Reddit may have won…

Now let’s outline how they really lost in the rest of the article.


I use Firefox on mobile to access currently; I’ll switch over to Artemis after kbin.social instance is available. With Firefox I do experience logout from time to time, however I have my password and username autosaved, so login is as simple as a click.

It’s not really annoying at all, and quite frankly it’s much better then enriching that Reddit asshat.


What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing?
> > > One of the weirder phenomena of the low interest rate era in tech was a tendency to see companies primarily as investments. The goal was not to have a functional business, but an exit, often via IPO or acquisition. I have begun to wonder if that explains what Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has been up to lately. > > Umm...yeah.
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What a stark difference between last year and this year. Last year there was the outpouring of support for Ukraine. This year it will be a “fuck u/spez” shit show.


Oh, absolutely this is the case. Reddit could even run bot accounts to gain a lion’s share of points for any particular sub they want to control, thereby stifling any sort of protest or activism authorized by sub vote.


I will give you 2 shiba inu coins (worth $0.00001574).


Destiny went through the same phase as well. Remember how well The Dark Below was received? Granted, Bungie turned it around with The Taken King, and subsequently Rise of Iron, but the seeds of monetization were sown with Destiny.

In Destiny 2 they just double downed on the microtransaction and monetization creep, which has only grown worse since they left Activision. All of those that thought the monetization was an Activision thing were pretty much wrong…when FTP came along it made sense that monetization was necessary, however the creep over the past few years has been abysmal.

I play, but it always seems to be to diminishing returns. It’s not really fun or rewarding any longer; Bungie can’t decide who to cater to (casuals or hard-core gamers). They’ve pretty much abandoned new PvP content (no new crucible maps for two years and counting, no new Gambit maps with only four available for play). I paid for this year’s content and admittedly, I’m just thinking about sitting it out entirely and just be done with the game.


The article comments are linked to Reddit, if you click on “Replies” it routes you to the topic on Reddit where there are posts about leaving the platform.


Put anything to a vote
Run weighted polls to make big decisions in your community, like getting input on rules changes or deciding how to distribute Points.

Unlike regular polls, these polls give a larger voice to people who have contributed more to the community. The more Community Points someone has earned, the more weight their vote carries.

This will end well…

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What they’re really looking for are a bunch of whales to drive engagement.


You can now buy to max out your seasonal level at the beginning of the season for $100.00, so you can immediately gain the XP boosts and other stat bonuses. It costs 100 silver per level, and it’s available day one of the season, not halfway through or at the beginning of the seasonal content drought as it has been in the past.


I’m in agreement with you, however I’m going to also add that the creep to a “pay-to-win” game has pretty much been crossed. Not to forget that Bungie decided to drip feed expansion content laced throughout seasonal content this year…that has not been received well.

Destiny players are a salty bunch, but I have to say the current level of furor towards Bungie is pretty legitimate right now. They do overreact; I just feel that this in this current state of the game there is justification behind it.

Regardless, “I hate Destiny; I play every day.”


Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious
> > > The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s > > We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers. EDIT Edited a word
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There are like 2.7 million reviews. At a rating of 4.8 it would take tens of thousands to reduce that by just a tenth of a point even if they rated it as a 1.


(50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?)

Apparently you are, Reddit.


No regerts…not even one letter.

Seriously, I deleted my posts and comments by my cake day (June 26th), and deleted my account on June 29th. Good riddance.



It looks like that’s the case. I found a comment that was mine from 10 months ago. It looks as if Reddit recovered my deleted comments after I deleted my account.

At this point, I don’t care. I left all that behind.


Nothing ever replaced Google+, which was really popular in my own tech circle.

Except Slack and LinkedIn already kind of fed that niche.

Regardless…the article is pretty much spot on. It’s fairly obvious that social networks are going to come and go; we’ve seen that over the past few decades. Every iteration of social media will revolve around the tech of the hour. I like ActivityPub and Federation because it brings additional options to the user base. It’s an exciting shift.


Mine as well, yet she’d then recite the first few verses of The Canterbury Tales in Old-English; pretty much proving that you can’t police the way people use language.


BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense
[https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense\_is\_wrapping\_up\_operations/](https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/) 145,000 banned bot accounts...over 10,000 banned in January alone.
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