Me, too. Is r/science still there? Last I heard they opened up the sub again, contingent on very specific benchmarks for Reddit making their app functional for moderating that I sincerely doubt they will meet …
While i agree r/science was terrible at this, it at least kept the conversation relevant. On new discoveries its nice to read about the science rather than: “here comes the end” or some fart joke.
Id like to think this meme is directed towards user exodus rather than moderation to keep things on topic. I hope that the fediverse keeps things on topic and doesn’t complain too much about moderation when it’s necessary.
If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn't hate the place so much. There's a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it's not because they're beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.
The best part is if you got notified a comment was removed you couldn’t see what the comment was and they wouldn’t tell you what rule it broke most of the time. If you asked they’d blow you off.
r/science didn’t allow jokes, off topic comments, low effort references, or anti-science rhetoric from morons who barely passed high school chemistry so anything that hit trending would have to get nuked from orbit.
All r/science was, was r/politics…every fucking “study” was from sudo science bullshit that just allowed everyone to circle jerk each other about their own bias. Hell that meav mod was just a repost bot that posted non stop from that psychology today website and then sold their account…and it’s still a fuckin mod.
I quit that sub when I got the 100th study with a sample size of 20, talking about some clickbaity shit that was going to be silently disproven a few years later.
That shit was sooo fucking annoying. “We went to a klan rally, and polled the 10 white guys there” All said they vote republican…Title: “All republicans are KKK members study shows”…like what in the literal fuck
I just got eventually banned every time I posted that mvae or w/e the fuck that mods name was, was a bot just posting political shit hidden as “science”.
Any time I’d use reveddit or similar sites to restore comments deleted from there, it was always stupid jokes or anecdotal stories, never anything directly about the post.
I think /r/science is misunderstood. The moderators had quite a clear vision on the kind of discussion they wanted and the kind they did not. This caused some friction every time a post reached /r/all but I don’t see that as a bad thing.
If anything that’s an ideal situation. People encounter a new community they’re interested in, break some rules in ignorance, the mods interfere and the violations are rolled back, the new users then either follow the rules or leave.
Not sure how they’re doing with the API changes, pretty sure they had some automation going. Don’t think they’re compatible with reddit’s new view on making communities as interchangeable as possible to stop friction from interfering with ad revenue.
That’s what it was like for the past year because the mods felt a need to lock and delete comments on 1/4 of all posts on the front page for “reasons”. Fuck that shit hole. Let it die.
All it needs is a fuckton of awards next to one of the [removed] comments, so you know that what you missed was worth reading.
Fuck the major subs. I don’t miss that arbitrary shit at all. And may I just add, fuck AwkwardtheTurtle in particular: seeing them get eaten by their own antics was just -chef’s kiss-
They got on the wrong side of their admin buddies somehow, and the admins did what the admins always do: the leopards ate the face of the top-scoring face-eating leopard. Awkward then spent the next several days whining about it publicly in every forum they could think of, in the most nauseating way, like “this is what I get in return for liking the taste of your boot, how could you do this to me after all I’ve done for youuuuu” type posts, when the reality is that they’d spent the last decade being an actual fucking putz to average rule-abiding Redditors just for the fun of it.
The actual Reddit posts have all been modded away, of course, but there are some good non-Reddit overviews:
I never get tired of looking at it. Almost like when a former shitposting president got booted off Xitter: too little too late, but quite pleasant nonetheless.
Wow. I’ve seen then mentioned a few times on here before but never knew the background. I’m a particular fan of them claiming they made john oliver famous through the spam.
The cynic in me absolutely suspectes reddit kept them around just for the traffic they generated. But as soon as the protests started it seems to have been “not like this”.
I am ashamed to admit it but I was happy to have my search resources back when the protest slowed down till I clicked on a few and found out people with my interests care about Reddits bs too, therewasn’t much left of many threads! 😂
I used web.archive.org to browse the Reddit communities during the blackout, I still actually use it in most cases because it helps both with subreddits that are still private, but also ones where people have deleted their threads.
It might not work with every single one, but it should work with the ones that appear in Google.
I honestly think the Reddit thing is over. Redditors are a little toxic and condescending. There may not be as much content on Lemmy but it sure feels peaceful.
Reddit notifications scare me, usually it’s a bot telling me I did something wrong or a human who wants to call me stupid and down vote my opinions. I stopped commenting because of this.
It is, but its well worth it. What i found is that my comments from 2 or more years ago weren’t showing on my profile. So although my profile seems empty, I still have historic comments on the platform that I can’t get to unless I know every comment I made and where.
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