The worst part is the Contributor Quality Score, which is the subjective version of karma.
If you're not a bot, then you have to spend a lot of real time producing acceptable content to get to do anything YOU want to do. You literally have to grind Reddit to be able to post in some subs, even if your account is older than the hills and has positive karma.
White streaks mainly.
Got one for free
That's the main problem. NFTs are almost free to create.
I gave up on reddit the day the mod teams of were allowed to ban you from their community not because you did anything wrong, but because you were a member in another sub that they didn't like.
If I understand correctly you can buy a NFT to use as your profile picture. But its completely useless since the only place you will ever see it as a tiny icon next to your name in the comments and on the profile page that no one visits.
Reddit says that most of these are "limited runs" but that's BS because "limited" can mean they made 5 or 5 000 000.
Unless you talk openly about surviving suicidal thoughts, rape, or other family-unfriendly subjects.
I just remembered the one that really pisses me off: 'to use reddit anonymously you must log in'.
Like cant you just give me a "are you a robot" test and let me use a VPN????
It's run by a fucking dickhead worshipping Musk.
Yeah, and Reddit will permaban anyone talking about "political violence", ideas like punching Nazis and harassing MAGAts, all the while giving the bastards a free ticket to do shit they want over there like destroying LGBTQ symbols.
Yeah I still don't get why people use Discord, it's so shitty and knowledge just gets locked up there to die
Hate that shit, Reddit’s decline started when individual users started to become sanctioned superusers and did away with the veil of equal-ish participation.
Generally all things done there to scale your feed based on recent activity suck too.
It’s infuriating how much time and energy is extracted from everyone chasing hidden and arbitrary metrics that serve some opaque corporate interest.
That happens here constantly
I’ve only ever seen this from the kids over at .ml.
The other day I made it off hand remark about my desire to take out pent up rage on several sexual predators being shown in a video.
Instant ban of a 13-year-old account for "threatening violence." I consider it a badge of honor against the fascist platform. Honestly it's no better than Twitter these days.
It can be a little more popular imo. We're still just under the "critical mass" needed to get more niche instances in good shape in terms of users and discussion
Most people talking about "punching Nazis" are advocating punching people who are certainly far right but who have not themselves committed or threatened any acts of violence.
The Nazis of the early 20th century were committing genocide and conquest, and the only way to stop them was through violence. But if you're talking about "punching Nazis" in the context of the UK and Frogage, their odious policies are a long way from justifying threats of violence which are rightly not legal.
In the US where Trump is attempting a fascist takeover, time will tell whether it will take violence to dislodge. But from our position it's easy to see why a lot of these people get banned.
Same reason people never bothered to do a proper search when all knowledge on the internet was indexed on forums - people can't be bothered, and want another person to find information for them before they make a real effort to find it themselves.
Cake day: 23 October 2023
Guess what made me leave lol
Well look here, for instance:
Looks like a combination of:
A power trippin’ mod looking to promote their discord.
A feeling of nowhere else to go as Reddit enshittifies.
Unawareness that https://sh.itjust.works/c/localllama exists because Reddit shadow bans anyone who links Lemmy.
And this is literally a self-hosting community… Look at the comments, they all know Discord is bad, but the mood is “WTF else are ya gonna do?”
For some context, localllama itself is kinda a refuge from Twitter/Linkedin spaces filled with Tech Bro stink, and it’s already been shattered by random niche LLM Discords (like BeaverAI, which you will find in another thread).
