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Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit

I’m all for watching Reddit reap what it sowed. They absolutely should be considered damaged goods at this point. But the ones that are really going to suffer are the mods that moderate critical subs such as r/suicide r/stopdrinking and r/auntienetwork. Spez didn’t even give one brain cell to think about the consequences of subs that provide valuable support to struggle people.

Really grinds my gears on that part alone.

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What does 196 mean?

Thank you for asking. I too, had no idea and was too afraid to ask.

I feel like Reddit really suppressed my curiosity to post questions like this because they’d either get downvoted to hell, get shite responses, or just taken down.

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This is legitimately fucking depressing

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I read a comment that read something like.. I wasn’t addicted to Reddit, I was addicted to RiF. Now that it’s gone Reddit can fuck off.

As a former Apollo user, I couldn’t agree more.

I’m excited to see how the fediverse works out along with the developers who are enhancing the experience. It’s an interesting time for the internet that is for sure.

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New York approves the first congestion toll in the US: $15 to enter Manhattan

I live around this mess and I have mixed feelings about congestion pricing. I am for a congestion pricing scheme but the revenue should be shared among all transit agencies that travel in and out of NYC. Who the hell wants to travel into the city when PATH trains only come every 15-20 off peak and weekend hours? Why not beef up transit routes FIRST, and then implement the pricing?

The concept is a good idea. The execution is short sided and insular and I don’t see the MTA benefiting from any of this for at least a decade. That’s IF this money actually goes towards public transportation infrastructure.

I see this going the way of the mandatory 911 fee we all pay and then having almost none of that money going towards 911 service.

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TIL people travel to Canada for humane IUD insertion

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This is the reason they are traveling to Montreal so yes, it appears to be available in Canada. But it absolutely is inhumane when countless women who ask for basic and simple numbing treatment for an IUD insertion/removal are denied and then gaslit into believing that it’s not necessary and they don’t really know their own bodies. Im glad you’ve never experienced it.

Pain management for women, especially women of color, is a sick joke in the States.