/r/notheonio . . . .

sight, that muscle memory is gonna take a while to rewrite.

We're conditioned to invest, both financially and emotionally, not only in what a game is right now, but what it will be in a year. We cling to roadmaps like lifeboats and wield Reddit threads as weapons of sentiment for or against the developers we've hitched our wagons to. It's a fuzzy parasocial relationship that only gets less healthy the more money is wrapped up in it. I'm sick of games that glare at me with dollar signs in their eyes from the moment I press play.

This review heated up fast

As a Skyrim fanatic I've got a Pavlovian attraction to any joke on the theme of "It just works." Then, as a PC tinkerer, reading this confirmed that this instance is probably a good fit. Happy with the vibe so far!

This was great to read, and reminds me of the joke that the stock market is just astrology for dudes.

I started (like 2 hours ago) a Poetry community in my instance. I modded a few microscopic subreddits that never got any traffic, so I'm used to imposter syndrome as a moderator 😥

My dim understanding is that "the admins" is one guy with a day job.

Reddit was authoritarian and removed communities it didn't like

After scandalous media attention perhaps.

I obviously don't know how long you were on the site, but most of reddit's worst actors lived long and healthy lives, while some interesting ones (e.g. Unidan) got zapped on easy technicalities.

Without looking to chum the thread with drama, is there a particular reason you're able to share for leaving this instance, i.e. anything users should know of?

Their announcement doesn't strike me as all that alarming. I could be mistaken.

It sounds like their mods have watched an unexpected expressway arrive at their door this week, Douglas Adams-style, and so they're closing the door momentarily to evaluate what the new traffic will look like. Honestly feels reasonable, unless I'm misunderstanding it.

The message seems to be that this isn't meant to be a permanent change.

I truly cannot think of a more poetic note to go out on. Welcome.

I don't necessarily get centrist take from this, just a PSA that defederation isn't a super ban hammer.

OP seems to be saying that there are more efficient ways to duck unwanted content than by playing whack a mole with the whole instance. I'm not sure that's an endorsement of said content.

I keep saying that it's like losing a shitty Library of Alexandria.

I'll necro a years-old thread without blinking. Never bothers me when somebody does it to a comment of mine, though I usually no longer have any idea what I was talking about.

As a 12 year reddit user, I assure you the majority of reddit is full of paid spammers and bots. The numbers have been as artificial as Twitter's for a while.

The majority, yeah. Users didn't go to third party apps out of spite toward reddit; I doubt too many will have hung around this long in the spirit of some symbolic D-day to stick it to spez.

Oh god, the loss of Sync was legitimately the straw that broke reddit's back for me. I would instantly pay Laurence for this

FOSS, donations

Nothing of value was lost.

Is that your position based on the actual content over there, or is that just a reaction to an instance (any instance) defederating? Because that would feel like a pessimistic carryover attitude from reddit.

Lemmy isn't reddit. Everyone, including mods who have been doing this for more than the past week, is adjusting to the reddit migration & inpouring of users who expect it to function the same as reddit, and may be frustrated that it doesn't. /edit

I don't quite vibe with the comments in the thread that seem to say Beehaw's four mods should have had server structure and manpower "long before now" just because the instance has been around for 18mos. That's a stupidly brief period to try and evaluate through the lens of a flood of new users.

I'm not sure I blame anybody who wants to hit the panic button this week. None of us know what the traffic in any instance will look like in another seven days.

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And the announcement is hardly a novel.

WHY are vulnerable people joining a decentralized system?

For the same reason wheelchair users leave the house after dark

Anyway, "public" doesn't mean "hate speech friendly."

I'm sour about losing Sync, but have you tried Jerboa? It's absolutely not as feature-complete yet as any of the big 3rd party reddit clients were, but it feels totally familiar and I've been happy using it so far.