[-] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago

Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Thank you @ernest for all you do and all you have done!

Absolutely do not want to see you run yourself into the ground over kbin matters, your family and your health come first.

I don't question your judgement, but I think the "step down" bit is a bit extreme, even if you fail to meet the deadline. Worst case, maybe let the community appoint a second-in-command temporarily to get some things moving along while you take a well deserved break?

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Spam from the past week on that sub hasn't been dealt with, despite multiple users reporting it.

I tried to message the two moderators directly, still waiting for a response. That said, the last activity for either moderator was from last month.

Thoughts on what can be done? I can volunteer to mod that sub until one of the regular moderators returns if there's no better solution (though considering how big that magazine is, I'm not sure if one person is enough).

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I got this when trying to report https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364640/Trendy-Reaction-Videos and also separately got the same when trying to report https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/364628/Home

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The Winnipeg Police Service is investigating a house fire in the Tyndall Park Neighbourhood after the body of an adult male was found late Thursday night.

My condolences to the family of that unfortunate man.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Not my own story, but my original retelling of a public one.

Back in the summer of 2017, Devon (in the UK) was suffering from a heat wave. The boys suffered the unbearable heat in trousers. Girls were luckier - skirts were part of the school uniform.

One boy, Ryan, asked his teacher for an exception due to the heat, but was told that all clothes worn must be a part of the approved school uniform, without exception. Another boy who asked was given a sarcastic reply: "Well, you can wear a skirt if you like."

Cue malicious compliance.

The next day, Ryan came to school in his uniform. Every item he wore was on the approved list - including his official school skirt.

Pretty soon, nearly all the lads were wearing skirts.

A few days later, after the worst of the heat wave was over, the headteacher announced that shorts would be allowed as part of the official school uniform starting the next school year.

TL;DR: School won't allow boys to wear shorts in extreme summer heat because it's not on the approved uniform list but sarcastically points out that they can wear skirts. Boys wear said skirts. School gives in and adds shorts to the list.

Original articles:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/23/exeter-schools-uniform-resolve-melts-after-boys-skirt-protest

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The best icons are behind a Reddit Premium paywall.

To add insult to injury.

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Rip Teddit (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working.

We all knew this was coming. Even so...

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

When I first started the timeline thread for reddit GDPR/CCPA requests, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread it seemed virtually no one got theirs.

Now, 11 out of 15 have received it. I even got mine via email, despite being permabanned and then deleting my account afterwards. Also, they are really pushing it, but so far no one seems to have gone over the deadline.

I do note that I seem to have gotten mine later than some others who put in requests later than I but got theirs earlier. In my case they were just one day shy of 30 days - but I did a request under 'Other' rather than GDPR or CCPA.

Hopefully this provides hope for others who want to grab their archive from reddit.

[-] [email protected] 264 points 1 year ago

kbin is newer and less polished. But yeah I personally recommend kbin over lemmy for exactly the reasons you posted.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

About nine months ago - it's from CMX Summit 2022, so either 14 or 15 of September 2022.

[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago

TIHI was a fairly large sub, with almost multimilion level of subscribers. If reddit wanted to increase traffic and get more eyes on ads, they're doing quite a terrible job of it so far.

[-] [email protected] 233 points 1 year ago

To all the folks saying that reddit couldn't replace the mods, that it was too big an effort, that they couldn't run a big sub all by themselves, I have only one thing to say to you.

You were right.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is a great idea. Let's get as many one-star reviews up there as we can!

How low can you go-oo-oo-oo

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API Madness (timemachiner.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Reddit's downfall is, shocker, Greed and Stupidity

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

"the amount of time people spent on the Reddit website by close to 16% between June 12 and 13" - what does that mean?

In the article, the full sentence is,

That "blackout" movement, which briefly caused Reddit to go down, dropped daily traffic by about 7% and the amount of time people spent on the Reddit website by close to 16% between June 12 and 13, according to the data shared by web traffic analysis firm Similarweb.

So basically the amount of time people spent on reddit dropped 16% between June 12 and June 13.

"Web traffic of the platform also declined to about 52 million" - 52 million ?

Yeah that could be worded better. No units. Resumably it's about the number of visits.

Again, the full sentence is,

Web traffic of the platform also declined to about 52 million on June 13, compared with averaging nearly 56 million in the days prior.

So a 4 million drop in number of visits.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

The reddit thing was even described as a "hack" to google search iirc

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

Again, not a surprise. Totally awful, outrageous, and immoral.

But sadly, par for the course. The mods should allow a vote to move to the fediverse, and leave the sub permanently private in that case.

Or if reddit won't give them the chance to vote, just do it anyways. Like the admins just do what they want, so turnabout is fair play, amirte?

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

That’s the thing they’re already stopped trying to justify. Why bother with that when you can lock a mod out of their mod account?

[-] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago

The mod team on r/worldpolitics didn't want to moderate properly and so folks tries to post anime pics and eventually the sub became dedicated to anime.

As part of the joke those folks also made r/anime_titties which ended up becoming the moderated sub to talk about world politics.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Talk about out of touch.

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