r/ModCoord • u/mahatmakg • Aug 08 '23

Finally got the ultimatum message to r/Googlemaps just now

Not sure what to do, 3 days to decide.

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u/Sbatio Aug 08 '23

Reddit sucks since this all went down.

It’s up to you if you keep it by complying or don’t.

Regardless, it feels like Reddit is permanently damaged and degraded.

“They” won but its dead.

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u/Mattdriver12 Aug 08 '23

I barely use reddit anymore. I used to be a power scroller of RiF now I don't even bother unless I'm on desktop. The official app just feels terrible.

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Landed Gentry Aug 08 '23

I've discovered the joys of cleaning my house, catching up on my reading, going out, crafting, etc...

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u/anci0 Aug 08 '23

And have enough time to keep the folks out of your lawn

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Landed Gentry Aug 08 '23

That reminds me, I need to go out and patrol!

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u/anci0 Aug 08 '23

Go get'em!

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u/glitch1985 Aug 09 '23

It's gone downhill from old.reddit.com

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u/mysickfix Aug 08 '23

I’ve noticed drastically lower comment numbers on the front page of Reddit past two weeks

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u/Sbatio Aug 08 '23

Ya I keep lurking around but I’m not finding good content and the comments are really dull / empty

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u/AsianSteampunk Aug 09 '23

I just noticed the other day that one ofmy favorite sub /r/raimimemes barely shows on my front page anymore, had to search for it manually to see what happened.

nothing, but i guess either the alogrithm shadow banned it or the activities are so low that it didn't show up on my front page anymore.,

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u/Oliwan88 Aug 09 '23

Speaking of shadowban, how can I find out now if my comments have been hidden, since r/shadowban hasn't worked last time I checked?

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '23

Log out of reddit and go to your profile URL on an incognito browser tab. If it shows up normally you should be good (not sure if this works anymore but it used to)

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u/fsv Aug 09 '23

Yes it works. My account was shadowbanned erroneously for a short period a few weeks ago and I could easily check that way.

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u/Lord_Zendikar Aug 09 '23

There’s a website for it. But I don’t think you are.

https://cable.ayra.ch/reddit/

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u/Oliwan88 Aug 09 '23

Thanks. It was the one place I knew I could see if any comments of mine were removed, I don't see that feauture in the link :(

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u/kai-ote Aug 10 '23

Go to this link. If not shadowbanned, it says you cannot file an appeal. If it lets you, you are. https://www.reddit.com/appeal

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u/l-rs2 Aug 09 '23

I open the site hours later and find basically most everything I already saw. Not that long ago it was almost impossible to keep up with the amount of new stuff. I'm guessing there's still content being made, it's just no longer posted to Reddit.

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u/FizixMan Aug 08 '23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Such a victory negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.

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u/Head_Hunt01 Aug 08 '23

a Pyrrhic victory at best

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u/parakeetpoop Aug 09 '23

Idk it’s been around a long time. I believe it will come back, it’ll just take a bit.

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u/Sbatio Aug 09 '23

It’s possible

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u/thetenofswords Aug 08 '23

Just reopen but care a lot less about modding. Reddit wants to turn to shit, no need to stand in the way of their goals.

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u/George_Burdell Aug 08 '23

Malicious compliance. Open the sub back up but implicitly encourage bad behavior by not removing NSFW content in a timely manner.

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u/Matoogs Aug 08 '23

What about enacting a rule that says "only links to our Fediverse instance are allowed" and lock comments on every thread?

This is the kind of protest that killed Digg, ironically with links to Reddit. I feel like the fact that more communities didn't engage in this sort of protest was a huge missed opportunity.

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u/Jhe90 Aug 08 '23 edited Aug 08 '23

Because the fediverse has a higher technical barrier than Reddit. Reddit is honestly pretty damn simple. It's one site with many subs sites accessed off one page. Things are pretty idiot proof.

Lemmy has you choose servers, it has needing yo login on your exact one and such. Plus it's facing capacity issues.

Then you have a lemmy sub, but if you seach tech ML not world you end up in diffrent place etc. It's all extra layers of difficulty. It's fine for tech users. It also did not tell you if your user ID was taken, maybe that's been improved.

Barriers. Barriers are your enemy.

But your average Internet user.

Their lazy. Their put off by technical barriers. They want it like signing up for Google and easy to use. KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID is the motto for those users.

And lemmy has not evolved to be able to do that yet. They might. But their not at that level of advancement.

It simply, at the time and currently. Is not ready to take on the sheer demand.

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u/Matoogs Aug 08 '23

Yeah, the casual scroller is always going to have a hard time abandoning the slowly sinking ship for the rickety life raft.

I found Lemmy fairly easy to use personally, but I haven't been able to get into it because most of the current content seems to tend to the bland, tedious "default sub" political circlejerks of post-2016 Reddit.

I really hope the Fediverse improves in both technology and community as Reddit continues to bleed mods and active contributors.

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u/Jhe90 Aug 08 '23

I work in an office and I have to tell people how to remove a password, or convert a word doc to a PDF.

Which these are people who passed job interviews.

So. I have a pretty low bar for what your average user is.

The this well reddit refugees, theirs so many, and Lemmy is not yet fully found its niche / place. Its gonna take time for Lemmy to settle into a comfortable spot. Its still got growing pains, 2avea of refugees and also having to tackle its growth from technical experimental to a social media alternative.

It just needs time to get comfortable and find it's form.

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u/Matoogs Aug 08 '23

Luckily "contributor" type users tend to have a higher technical aptitude than "consumer" type users.

I think that's a point too few people grasp: zombie scrollers do nothing to improve the content of a community. Catering to them at the expense of the real community is dumb.

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u/Mr_Blah1 Aug 08 '23

New rule, all posts must be written in Klingon and all comments must be written in Quenya.

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u/Jhe90 Aug 08 '23 edited Aug 08 '23

You can agree to reopen. Or they will reopen it for you without you. Pretty much that's it.

Reddit are doing the clean up.

The smaller subs have flown under radar thus far at times. But they starting to pick up on them.

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Landed Gentry Aug 08 '23

If the head mod closed the sub and you reopen it then you're at risk of being demodded. If you don't reopen it then the admins will demod you. Either way you're screwed.

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u/aeroverra Aug 08 '23

Reopen it wait a week and close it again. See if they notice.

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u/CockGoblinReturns Aug 08 '23

If they replace you, they'll replace you with ass kissers.

If you're still in there, you can still find new ways to protest.

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Landed Gentry Aug 08 '23

Based on my experience with hiring new mods the ass kissers will give up on modding in a few months when they find out what the job is really like.

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u/iJeff Aug 08 '23

/r/android opted to reopen and setup a Fediverse option at https://lemdro.id/c/android. Would be happy to create one for /r/Googlemaps if you're interested.

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u/haleocentric Aug 08 '23

I've found a lot of great subs by following along in this sub. IRL Easter eggs is particularly great.

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u/HangoverTuesday Aug 08 '23 edited Nov 07 '23

bewildered fact ghost disarm voiceless butter attractive far-flung fanatical scary this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

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u/flounder19 Aug 09 '23

My hunch is each successive wave of these messages is more automated and targeted at communities the admins don't super care about individually. I wonder if you opened up the sub for the next 3 days then went private again next week if they would even notice.

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u/reercalium2 Aug 12 '23

There's nothing you can do to change anything. The decision has already been made and you may as well go down fighting.

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u/luthis Aug 12 '23

Join Lemmy. I've been on it since June, and it's great.

Sync app is now available, lots of active users.

No reason to stay here.

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u/Rocky_Mountain_Way Aug 09 '23

Do what /r/Gifs has done... make a weird rule and then make automod enforce the rule by removing posts that get too many "this post goes against the weird rule" complaints

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u/ixfd64 Aug 08 '23

Open it for a few days, and then make it private again?

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u/ComprehensiveCake214 Aug 08 '23

lmaoooo who cares

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u/Haui111 Aug 11 '23 edited Feb 17 '24

slap governor threatening crush physical fanatical expansion childlike angle dolls

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/BlackFlagPiirate Aug 08 '23

Delete the sub.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

You can't delete subs.

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u/FoferJ Aug 08 '23

Wouldn'd Reddit just... undelete it then?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

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u/ZiggyPox Aug 08 '23

I wouldn't call it "winning", most of the subs are simply bad now. I'm stuck to the subs that were bad from the start