I accumulate lots of knowledge to counteract my lack of self-confidence.

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Cake day: June 28th, 2023
  • apemint@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•How I imagine most Reddit moderators look
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much this.

    I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.

    Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.

    I just can’t understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?

  • apemint@kbin.socialtoMoving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social•What was supposed to be "The Next Big Thing!" but flopped?
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    1 year ago

    Most of these issues come down to insufficiently advanced tech.
    We’re just now getting to the point where advancements in display and lens technology make it possible to get rid of the screen-door effect at no cost of clarity or FOV, for instance. (Varjo XR-3)

    I think 2 major things need to happen for VR to be truly mainstream;
    -Size needs to decrease, which increases comfort, so it no longer feels like strapping a toaster to your face. (Bigscreen Beyond)
    -More quality content needs to be developed for VR.

    PC gaming is mainstream as hell, and people easily spend over $2K on hardware, so I think price is kind of irrelevant (to a point) if people can shift the majority of their desktop gaming, and comfortably spend 10+ hours in VR.

  • apemint@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•Reddit has started assigning power mods to subs they took over.
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    1 year ago

    Bingo.

    Few years ago I was invited to mod a small but growing community.
    About a year later the sub founder (and other mods) just gradually disappeared.
    When I brought this up, the top mod (a month later and without warning) removed everyone and asked to DM him if we wanted to continue being mods.

    Every single person re-applied, but the inactivity continued.

    When I looked at their profile, it turned out they were moderating dozens of subs, and according to the moderation log, I was the only one who actually performed any mod actions in the last 6 months.

    This was when I took my leave.
    Again, we’re talking about a small ~20k community.
    I can’t even imagine the kind of clout chasing that goes around in large subs.

  • apemint@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•This is the Reddit app. They are making it really easy to want to migrate
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    1 year ago

    I feel your rant, I really do.
    You have no idea how disappointed I was after the Wikipedia redesign until I found the full width button in the bottom corner.

    Most sites are optimized for mobile and are completely asinine looking on a monitor.
    Especially text heavy sites where even a single sentence is broken into 2 or more lines, meanwhile 70% of the screen is empty.
    And it’s not like it’s hard to implement a button like Wikipedia did, web designers just don’t give a crap.
    I payed for a full monitor, let me use the full monitor!

  • apemint@kbin.socialtoReddit Migration@kbin.social•Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience.
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    1 year ago

    The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

    Yeah, about that…
    Let’s see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

    I really hope you’re right because I love this place right now. It’s much smaller than other platforms but there’s enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

    Outside of the fedi, I don’t remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.