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Tashlan

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Don't talk shit. One does not hear of Abraxas by accident.

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Tashlan,
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Blackout curtains, melatonin, whatever you can to control your sleep and block out noise and light are a must. The ice cream man can be your enemy. Stock up on emergency 5 hour energies, I like to have soylent in reserve too because sometimes food and shit won't be available.

I won't lie, night shift strained many of my relationships. It took quite a bit from me. But it can give back too. Things like audiobooks and videogames replaced drinking at bars with friends. Have solo hobbies prepared.

There's a temptation to become diurnal on weekends that will work against you.

Also, you have to be firm about your schedule with people. They don't consider night shifts in their plans, so you want to make sure you let people know often what can or can't work with your sleep cycle.

Tashlan,
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What does the Open in the name stand for, then?

Very, very tired of companies embracing openness and share-alike mentalities when it's their turn to take and then skulking pit when it's their time to give. Reminds me of how Crunchyroll started off selling a subscription to stream other people's pirated and fansubbed anime.

Tashlan,
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Not really, but I had already habituated myself to nuking accounts and deleting posts routinely long before now. I regret Reddit became what it is, not disconnecting from that.

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I'm not online so I can stare at websites, and any website will do. I want discussions, people and content. A platform with five users, as you say, has relatively little value to me unless they're like my best friends.

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Nsfw is also dead on mobile web. And just a reminder that nsfw isn't just porn, it's also cannabis and vape content, and likely other content that touched "sensitive" subjects.

Tashlan,
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Yeah, Reddit, like so many other websites, seems to have gotten into its head the idea that it wants to recreate the 90s AOL experience, but not in the fun way.

Tashlan,
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Just to say, I 100 percent would pull RIF up in downtime but doomscrolling is not ubiquitous; I would pop into really specific communities to read about specific interests and shit that didn't expose me to current events. I am an extremely politically plugged-in person, despite avoiding it almost entirely on reddit (unless I was in the mood), but I found shit like RIF actually allowed me to be more selective about what content I want at any given time. That kind of fine-tuned control of my information intake, of course, is completely lost on New Reddit with its barrage of random recommendations.

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Honestly like, the dude you're responding too is referencing BBSes and using the web before tabs. If a user like that is expressing some confusion, disorientation, or irritation, you should regard it the way you might your grandfather critiquing your home. He could be cantankerous, but he probably does have some insight stemming from decades of experience. NTOG and I have been on opposite sides of almost every thread I've encountered them in but it's pretty clear they know their way around message boards, so if something is confusing them it might be a bit confusing yet.

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Reading it on mobile so not seeing anything wrong here, just black background and white text, like I've always liked.

Tashlan,
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I think the dirty secret is that social media is both an incredibly vital part of people's lives and businesses, but it's free and ad revenue doesn't really make anyone the crazy profits their valuations suggest it should. That it's happening all at once is I think partly attributable to financial tightening -- higher interest rates mean people have less patience with money they've floated, partly that Twitter going weird gave everyone else cover to do the same, and my personal opinion, the Writer's Strike gives a little room for the companies to do dumb shit without having to worry about getting roasted on late night.

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I burned accounts frequently so karma didn't matter, except in terms of meeting posting thresholds. Upvotes/downvotes mattered to me because they were "feedback" for what I said. Other poster's karma mainly mattered to me when trying to sus out if someone was an alt/bot/troll account.

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Fuck u/spez

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Honestly as an early user of Facebook, Reddit, etc., we shouldn't forget that when people first came to these services, they were the smaller, cleaner, more text-based alternatives to bigger corporate bullshit. Myspace was busy, bloated, Malware prone, Facebook was light and organized. Digg became super corporatized overnight, Reddit was clean and simple. Once early users are on that shit when it's good, their friends follow, and eventually communities form and it's very, very difficult if you care about a community to abandon it for an alternative. Websites aren't just "websites," they're people, and just like tech companies eventually always put profits over people, people put people over software. They'll put up with a lot of shit to stay on touch woth the people they loved.

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I uninstalled RIF. For old time's sake I fell asleep last night browsing many year old threads on r/tolkienfans. Truly relaxing, ad, clutter free, just text, just reading. I hate the idea of a world without that.

Tashlan,
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Maybe an actual FAQ would be good -- people during fractious times have a tendency to catastrophize and create misinformation.

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Spyxfamily really surprised me. I don't expect new, popular anime to be good.

Tashlan,
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I call them "man on horse" simulators. I think open worlds have generally gotten a bit bigger than they need to be -- I remember feeling like FFXV was actually very empty, despite being massive, and while Skyrim is beloved, so much of current replay has been slogging through massive amounts of nothing. I tend to wish open world games were somewhat smaller but denser, with more variety instead of huge, empty terrains of sort of bad-feeling, filler quests between the good ones.

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They usually have two cities!

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Damn, ordinarily I'd follow this coverage at r/anime_titties

Tashlan,
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Is this like when they let AOL onto Usenet

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Jay Peters has been fantastic in his reporting on this, and generally stuck to observable facts. That Reddit is now being a bitch to him just further cements my impression of their leadership. They cannot even handle their own actions being described.

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Spez mistakes being cynical and greedy with "maturing," as is typical of the cynical and greedy.

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Opening RIF is, unfortunately, a muscle memory for me. For these next 7 days when it's still open, I'll probably be on there on occasion, although the subs I'm subscribed to anymore are either closed, or they're ModCoord & SaveThirdPartyApp. I've unfollowed subs that re-opened, and frankly, I was never subscribed to much beyond specific communities I liked to begin with. The "statistically insignificant" millions of users on Apollo, RIF, etc. (last I counted RIF had 5 million downloads on the app store to Reddit's 100 million -- that 5 percent so talked about is not a small number.) My post histories are deleted, all my accounts but one are deleted, I'm now just there to see the end, and see the drama with my own eyes (and part of that, for me, is that I don't wholly trust what I don't see myself, either.)

That the daily traffic is at "normal" levels, to me, is interesting, because we're not in a "normal" news cycle right now. With Trump indictments, the sub implosion, a new Marvel show, new Final Fantasy games, a potential Biden impeachment, and reddit's implosion as a news story itself, Reddit ought to be booming right now, not "normal". That there are incredible surges of people in subreddits participating in reddit drama should be a warning sign, the way a Fogo De Chao ought to be worried when two dozen PETA people sit down at each table.

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I assume the desired goal of the John Oliver thing is getting John Oliver's attention.

Tashlan,
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Tw reddit link: flashback to spez's apology for editing t_d posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_by_editing_some_comments_and_creating_an/

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Tw reddit link: flashback to the time spez started suspending people for saying fuck you spez

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/h7e893/rnfl_user_says_fuck_you_uspez_gets_suspended_by/

Tashlan,
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There's a case to be made on either end. The best thing would be for people to move to better pastures with dignity, but the malicious compliance and worse create headaches and embarrassment for spez that may pay off in the press, or at some other date. Mods getting banned for making their accounts porn accounts certainly know they're going out the door, but they'd prefer to be thrown out.

And ultimately, for the veteran redditors who are watching all this, they want to see the end with their own eyes.

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Editing their comments (which was a wave of fuck you spez pings) was a personal tantrum. As a human being, I could sort of get where it would seem mischievous and justified to go and throw it back at someone else. Awful judgment, huge breach of trust, but understandable from the POV of someone who just wants to be petty and immature for a moment. I can relate.

As part of a broad pattern though, he clearly has issues veiling his annoyance and contempt for his own users.

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Dated, but has anyone come up with a better way? Outside of having another human carefully curate your shit, or some kind of Zuckerbot doing it, you need some way to filter out bullshit or any community will be overwhelmed with spam and trolls

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No need for sarcasm -- I was ASKING if there were other ways outside of up/downvotes, AI moderation, manual/human curation, or no moderation. Hence question mark.

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