Gullible

joined 2 years ago
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

it’s explained in book 6 and 7 of Harry Potter that Dumbledore lives a lonely life where he kills what he loves and enriches the lives of those he sees as lesser. His story is akin to Harrison Bergeron, but far less sympathetic as he was a gay nazi in the 40sShit

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Close the sub for the day when you “don’t have enough mods operating today.” Then open mod applications. Accept no one. Just continue until the subreddit bleeds to nothing in a few weeks, as you’ve broken no rules and redditors are impatient

Edit: and read nothing that you’re sent. Just mark all as read. They will complain loudly. It will spur a reaction that will hinder your plan. Remember your mental health!

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Elon is the sort of person to (pay someone) to play universal paperclips and then wonder why they didn’t ask the AI to instead make money.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy bar? Like an Internet cafe but with lemmy and booze?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works -3 points 3 days ago

2/30 for an ethnic group that comprises 1% of the US population seemed a bit odd. Noticing a minor peculiarity and believing it to be negative are entirely different. What offered you the impression that I would view their ethnicity in a negative light?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I’d hesitate to call lemmy users free thinkers or smart. I’m bog standard, at best, and others here are usually about par with me. No, it’s been pretty apparent that they enact change because of pressure from above and outside, leading to constant issues. The company’s leadership is simply incapable of creating anything better.

They chase money, respect, and trends, in that order, but rarely successfully and even more rarely proactively. They’re a poorly coordinated, reflexive, and myopic behemoth, and have been for a long while. The company’s just too unwieldy for them. But, the intentionality of their mistakes is irrelevant.

TLDR; The only thing of import is the frequency of their mistakes and my lack of tolerance for them.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

banned for upvoting an article from the guardian about the dorito despot

I’m not sure why people still use that website. “Move fast and break things” works out occasionally, but this feels like every decision Reddit has made in the last 10 years. There were some good early choices mixed in with the bad, and denying those would be silly.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or just ants. Ants ruin plans

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still cost me less than a new printer every two years if they multiplied their prices by 10.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I foresee complications if one is inside the other at the wrong time

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Reddit is scared (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to c/reddit@lemmy.world
 

“There doesn’t seem to be anything here”

Reddit search pulls in the most arbitrary posts when given a single keyword, even deleted comments remain indexed to the post. But they somehow have nothing about lemmy. That seems suspect, considering search isn’t otherwise broken.

Edit: getting results for lemmy now? Did I happen to search within the 10 second window where search was broken? That feels unlikely

 

Now Reddit’s not just promoting ragebait and AI generated stories, but divisive conservative rhetoric. Anyone else notice the non-political subreddits spontaneously hosting a population of chuds and propagandists where a few weeks ago they weren’t tolerated?

Has reddit changed the algorithm? Has some nation begun its bot operation? Has reddit deployed bots at musk’s behest? Has twitter sent its worst users to brigade? (All of twitter’s users are its worst users) I don’t know, but the effect is striking. All I’m certain about is that I’m avoiding reddit even harder now.

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