Blakerboy777

@Gordon_Freeman

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568 they only work if people care about it, so double edged sword.

@wjrii

@Madbrad200

my experience is eerily similar to yours. Used it a bit in the first few days, popped in on occasion. Deleted my account today. When I first went on, one of the questions I asked was “is this FOSS or privately owned” and got bombarded with that cadre of users explaining why it’s better and safer for it to be owned by one person and that Jake would never make bad decisions like this exact one. At one point a user was being so agressive about how I should just trust Jake that I said I must be talking to his mom.

I also briefly had a Voat account when I thought Reddit was cracking down too much/too arbitrarily, and quickly realized that I was not in good company. I’ve been very optimistic about this Reddit exodus because it really doesn’t have the same ideological bent to it, so the diaspora isn’t just the dregs of reddit.

@PlatinumPangolin

@delitomatoes @NABDad @danielbln @fartsparkles @Potatos_are_not_friends

Fair points, I have only watched a few episodes myself and was merely copying the source since others weren’t seeing it.

@Potatos_are_not_friends

@delitomatoes @NABDad @danielbln @fartsparkles

There are examples in the second link, but I can paste them here for you:

Scrubs:
J.D. started as fairly emotionally needy due to him wanting a father figure to replace his own dysfunctional family. Fast forward to season five where J.D. is an appletini (light on the tini)-swilling “sensey” (that’s “sensitive person”) who can’t hold on to his “man cards” (which would be taken away from him if he did something girly) for a full day. This is lampshaded by Zach Braff in the bloopers to Season 8.
“You haven’t been here in a while, my character’s really gay now.”
Carla was initially a tough cookie Team Mom. As the seasons went on, the writers Flanderised her obsession with gossip and her domineering tendencies over Turk. She also went from giving advice to forcing her opinions on everyone else and admitting that taking the moral high ground “is like crack for me”.
Elliot went from being a pretty normal, slightly quirky, girl with no interest in kids and a high degree of efficiency coupled with no personal skills to highly neurotic, obsessed with getting married and having kids, and the most compassionate doctor in the hospital that was only there because she wanted to help people. The family part is at least somewhat justified by the fact that she as she got old she had a stronger desire to settle down.

@beefbaby182

@delitomatoes

It sucks when a show is spinning it’s wheels and a significant actor moves on to greener pastures, but you get it. It really sucks when a show rockets off and actors leave because the show has made them into a star who get offered bigger projects to capitalize on their fame. Mucking things up for the thing that made you famous is such BS.

@HobbitFoot

@delitomatoes Many sitcoms have an overarching romance arc between two leads that gets stretched out for eternity. I don’t know how much I can vouch for “The Office” handling other storylines, but the getting Pam and Jim together 1/3rd of the way through the series, and then not having them constantly breaking up and dating other people and then getting back together (like Friends) was a real breath of fresh air. The show really proved they could survive as an anthology without having the main romantic arc to fall back on. Of course, later on they introduce serious romantic arcs for other characters.

@infyrin

@fubo I’m confused, this literally backs up what he said.

@garrettw87

@Aityz @NotTheOnlyGamer @Sephtis@kbin.social

I’m following Midwest.social on mastodon, which is an instance of Lemmy, not mastodon. I give it a 6/10. It’s far from ideal, but you’ll basically come a cross comment chains in your feed. It’s much harder to take in the WHOLE discussion and kind of gage the general sentiment of people on the platform, but it is functional and easy enough to leave your own comment, as well as keep track of specific users replying back and forth. I could definitely see people using a more Twitter-like app as a reddit replacement now that I’ve test driven it myself.

@be_excellent_to_each_other

@Aityz @Ignacio @NotTheOnlyGamer

Judging a platform by its users or vis versa is really shitty unless it’s something truly extreme like Nazi’s. “Do we really want normies who mostly follow celebrities and l brands?” Yes, we do. I’d love to follow Matt Mercer and Wizards of the Coast on here. I’d love to follow my favorite youtubers and politicians and game studios. That probably sounds pretty palatable to many users here, but if my mom follows movie stars, TV networks, and crafting influences because those are her interests, how is that any less legitimate? And is it wrong for me to want the accounts she’s interested in to join the fediverse so we can have a common platform to share things with eachother?

@cyberian_khatru

@zalack @FreeBooteR69 google never “depended” on Android in any real sense. It was developed by a for profit entity that was bought by Google while it was still in its infancy and has always been wholly owned by Google since - the source code is open, but it wasn’t a community project that Google EEE’d, it was a privately owned project that they’ve made all the investment in and done all the work on, except the apps themselves which they assert little to no control over. The same company literally EEE’d a chat protocol with Google Talk so this was just a really oddball example to pick.

@bioemerl

@Roundcat @Ensign_Crab

What does “dies” mean in this circumstance? We already only have 1% of their users. Are we afraid that access toore content here will cause users to leave for Facebook?

@numbscroll

@rimlogger

Yes same. I’m making a conscious effort to leave a comment (like this one) rather than just up voting.

To my understanding it’s a somewhat reasonable approach that has its upsides and downsides. I believe Twitter apps were all designed that way back in the day as well.

They are presented with the same choice every single day to condemn people to die by hoarding their unfathomable wealth. Anyone of them could singlehandedly end all deaths from polio or TB, but instead every single day they decide that the idea of only being worth $2 million dollars is so horrifying that they’d rather allow the deaths to continue unabated.

I think this is going too far. Reddit isn’t doing something SO horrible that we need to drive them out of business by boycotting advertisers. Boycott reddit, 100%, but do we really need to try and punish companies that just do business with them? It’s not like Fox News or Twitter where they’ve directly taken an odious ideological stance, they’re just running their business badly. I disagree so I won’t be their customer. I’ll tell other people that they’re doing dumb things with their site and should leave it. But I’m not going to go further than that.

Yes, this! I have been thinking, everytime I would have liked the Admins to step in and help, it’s been “our hands are tied”. I’m fairly certain the subreddif /r/XKCD had some weird shit going on so the main sub for it had to be like /r/XKCD_comic or some shit like that. And the Admins refused to do anything about a troll controlling the main subreddit handle. But now they mods are using their godlike powers for good, Admins can’t wait to jump in and fuck things up. I guess mods are gods only when it hurts users, but when they are actually doing what their users want- fuck em?

Same, I’m developing a crippling fediverse addiction right now. Hopefully this drama wraps up soon because I’m using this new platform way too much watching it unfold haha. Maybe in July I’ll only spend a couple of hours a day on here.

And it lives on even today.
Digg shut down, was sold, and the present website is completely different.

I pretty much agree with this. If you look at the accounts of the people complaining, how many of them have posts hitting the frontpage? I’m not saying I have any data, I’m just speculating that most people who are power users, whether they use 3rd party apps or not, can recognize how shitty reddit went about this and won’t complain about the protest.

I’ve heard that if you tried to edit a comment in a community that had already gone private, that it could prevent you from editing it. Are you sure you were able to edit and delete the comments you’re seeing? Normally if you delete your account without editing/deleting, the comment stays up and it just changes the username to deleted. I used Power Delete Suite on Sunday and don’t see any of my comments have been restored, but most subreddits hadn’t gone dark yet on the 11th.