Not really, but I had already habituated myself to nuking accounts and deleting posts routinely long before now. I regret Reddit became what it is, not disconnecting from that.

Yeah, Reddit, like so many other websites, seems to have gotten into its head the idea that it wants to recreate the 90s AOL experience, but not in the fun way.

Nsfw is also dead on mobile web. And just a reminder that nsfw isn’t just porn, it’s also cannabis and vape content, and likely other content that touched “sensitive” subjects.

Most recently Spez said the IPO is further away now than it was last year lmao

Honestly like, the dude you’re responding too is referencing BBSes and using the web before tabs. If a user like that is expressing some confusion, disorientation, or irritation, you should regard it the way you might your grandfather critiquing your home. He could be cantankerous, but he probably does have some insight stemming from decades of experience. NTOG and I have been on opposite sides of almost every thread I’ve encountered them in but it’s pretty clear they know their way around message boards, so if something is confusing them it might be a bit confusing yet.

Just to say, I 100 percent would pull RIF up in downtime but doomscrolling is not ubiquitous; I would pop into really specific communities to read about specific interests and shit that didn’t expose me to current events. I am an extremely politically plugged-in person, despite avoiding it almost entirely on reddit (unless I was in the mood), but I found shit like RIF actually allowed me to be more selective about what content I want at any given time. That kind of fine-tuned control of my information intake, of course, is completely lost on New Reddit with its barrage of random recommendations.

We didn’t vote for that shit over in DC, this is some nonsense they’re doing in the states. DC doesn’t even get a vote in the Congress or Senate, why punish the 700,000 people here not involved in politics?

Like “my elected officials cut the whole state off from porn” is entirely something voters IN THOSE STATES need to work out for themselves lmao

How do we define edge case? Incarceration is a fact of life, and in the US we have somewhere around one in a hundred Americans jailed. It’s not an insubstantial sum of people, and like military deployments, is something that should be accounted for when looking at scenarios where someone might be away from their computer for a sum of time.

if you haven’t even accessed anything in an account in several years, why have it?

Email is a bit different to me than like cloud storage, because so much gets tied there – social media, banking, etc., that I don’t like the idea of gambling with it unless I’m sure an account is a throwaway. People incarcerated, hospitalized or dead may not be able to regularly access their email, yet the information inside may be vital to them and their family.

Ghoulish, but as I mentioned earlier, now I have to remind people to be sure to log into their dead relative’s email accounts to preserve information.

Someone in jail for a two year stint that ends in December may be emerging to find the email they had for twenty years, which may be the key to most of their other accounts, is gone, which could be hugely impactful.

In my personal life, I do now have the unfortunate task of reminding people to log into dead relative’s email accounts so they can preserve some shit they need, which kind of sucks.

Reading it on mobile so not seeing anything wrong here, just black background and white text, like I’ve always liked.

I burned accounts frequently so karma didn’t matter, except in terms of meeting posting thresholds. Upvotes/downvotes mattered to me because they were “feedback” for what I said. Other poster’s karma mainly mattered to me when trying to sus out if someone was an alt/bot/troll account.

I think the dirty secret is that social media is both an incredibly vital part of people’s lives and businesses, but it’s free and ad revenue doesn’t really make anyone the crazy profits their valuations suggest it should. That it’s happening all at once is I think partly attributable to financial tightening – higher interest rates mean people have less patience with money they’ve floated, partly that Twitter going weird gave everyone else cover to do the same, and my personal opinion, the Writer’s Strike gives a little room for the companies to do dumb shit without having to worry about getting roasted on late night.

Fuck u/spez

Honestly as an early user of Facebook, Reddit, etc., we shouldn’t forget that when people first came to these services, they were the smaller, cleaner, more text-based alternatives to bigger corporate bullshit. Myspace was busy, bloated, Malware prone, Facebook was light and organized. Digg became super corporatized overnight, Reddit was clean and simple. Once early users are on that shit when it’s good, their friends follow, and eventually communities form and it’s very, very difficult if you care about a community to abandon it for an alternative. Websites aren’t just “websites,” they’re people, and just like tech companies eventually always put profits over people, people put people over software. They’ll put up with a lot of shit to stay on touch woth the people they loved.

Fuck spez.

I uninstalled RIF. For old time’s sake I fell asleep last night browsing many year old threads on r/tolkienfans. Truly relaxing, ad, clutter free, just text, just reading. I hate the idea of a world without that.

Maybe an actual FAQ would be good – people during fractious times have a tendency to catastrophize and create misinformation.

Spez mistakes being cynical and greedy with “maturing,” as is typical of the cynical and greedy.

Is this like when they let AOL onto Usenet