Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mstdn.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

15K
active users

mstdn.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.4

#redditblackout

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Public *
Pete Prodoehl 🍕

It makes me sad that an open source project that has a community on Reddit held a vote to leave and most users voted to stay.

What makes it worse is that I missed the vote because we were boycotting Reddit, then I just quit Reddit, so I didn't even know about the voting.

I get it that many open source projects run on volunteers, and their time can be stretched, and sometimes the easy way wins, but I still don't like it.

#openSource#community#software
Public
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES

"Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent"

You know what? I doubt that this will work. Dan Ariely in the book "Predictably Irrational" has a chapter dedicated to being paid for a service versus providing a favor.

AFAIK (and I could be wrong about this) most of the moderators that Reddit pissed are volunteers. They are not paid.

Now, the thing is that some people are willing to do volunteer work, for the betterment of humanity.

The problem comes when you want to start compensating them for the work they were doing for free. If you want to compensate them for the amount of work they are really doing, you'd go bankrupt. So you reason that you can give them a modest amount of money. You don't go bankrupt, and them getting something is better than them getting nothing.

Except that when you start giving them something, you've moved outside the gift economy and into the realm of pecuniary interest. People start comparing and they are not happy. So you lose more volunteers.

Reddit is apparently not going to pay moderators... so they may not actually move from the gift economy to some pecuniary realm. Still, it remains to be seen how their overture is received. I'm not convinced that "gifts" of digital trophies cannot be seen in a pecuniary manner. In his book, Ariely was looking at situations that were much simpler than the mess that Reddit made.

I'm still skeptical that this is going to make a difference.

#Reddit #RedditBlackout #DanAriely #PredictablyIrrational

techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/redd

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta

consent.yahoo.comTechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands
Replied in thread
Public
Mitchell :mapleleaf:

@cyberlyra A two-day boycott will in the long term mean nothing for a giant like Meta. Learn from reddit users protesting the fiasco there in June. The two-day #redditblackout came and went and now it’s like nothing ever happened.

Blackouts need to be indefinite or until real, positive change comes. No union would strike for two days and then go back to work under the same conditions.

As an aside, any reason to ditch Zuck’s empires is a good one.

Public *
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

Coming Tomorrow (i.e., Tuesday) to #SpaceHost

#SpaceHost is OPENING EARLY for its public beta phase, and ready to host your #Lemmy servers.

We are going to start inviting people on the waiting-list.

Each day we will invite a group of people from the waiting-list.

If you are already on the waiting-list, check for an e-mail from hello@spacehost.one

If you want to get on the waiting-list, sign-up here:
spacehost.one/

#SpaceHostBTS
#threadiverse
#redditMigration #redditBlackOut

Public *
Pete Prodoehl 🍕

I'm not sure if this is a recent development, but since I deleted the reddit app I hadn't run across this before.

Not just the "download our app" but the inability to view content on reddit from a mobile browser!

The content is accessible in a desktop browser. (I always prefer a desktop to mobile device for browser when possible.)

Let this be a reminder, the enshitified sites have a lot of power over access to the data we've given them.

A warning on reddit that content cannot be viewed unless you use the reddit app on mobile.
#kbin#threadiverse#fediverse
Public *
Pete Prodoehl 🍕

I ended up reading some posts on reddit yesterday. (I'm not posting there, and trying actively to avoid it.)

I forgot how many ads you see there! It made me appreciate kbin even more, and I signed up to support kbin with monthly donations.

Hopefully it's just a matter of time before we fill up kbin (and lemmy?) instances with knowledge that currently exists on reddit.

#fediverse#threadiverse#kbin
Public
mvario

Reddit Tells Protesting Mods It Will Remove Them If They Don’t Stop, As Reddit’s Subreddit For The Blind Can No Longer Be Moderated By Blind Users | Techdirt

techdirt.com/2023/07/10/reddit

TechdirtReddit Tells Protesting Mods It Will Remove Them If They Don’t Stop, As Reddit’s Subreddit For The Blind Can No Longer Be Moderated By Blind UsersAs you’ll recall, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman whined about what he called the “landed gentry” among moderators of subreddits that were protesting his ridiculous extractive API changes. He insisted tha…
#Reddark#RedditBlackout#Enshittification
Public
dasnet

Emotional about #threads. Since I've seen the opportunities of #activitypub and fediverse and how much opportunity there was to take back the internet from corporations...I hadn't slept in weeks since the #redditblackout. Learning leaders here. Adding my own developments. Spreading awareness.

I've been raving about this at home; I was asleep with a fever when my partner woke me up stoked about threads and single sign on. Didn't even make the connection. None. "It's for people like me"..
:(

ExploreLive feeds
About