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Eh those rules seem dumb and are in some ways… but as someone who moderated a roughly 200 and 250k subscriber subreddits for around 6-7 years, I can say from experience that an insane amount of people just tried using the platform to shotgun links to their bullshit youtube channels or content mill tech blogs.

You’d see one of those links, look at their profile and sure enough they just had a huge list of them firing off the same link to 10-20 subreddits, then the next link, then the next. No discussion, no commenting history in those subreddits for the most part. They were just using them as a way to get clicks and nothing more.

Left unchecked, that shit destroys the quality of a community. I know because the first big sub I grew from about 10k to 250k had been left open to that stuff for years and had totally stagnated. As soon as I started cleaning house the place blew up in numbers and quality of content.

The vast, vast majority of people linking their own off-site content on reddit (in my experience as a mod) was definitely people just spamming. And if you let them do it the subreddits go to hell.

Insane waste of money

All that said, I resigned from my mod positions on a few pretty large subs, wiped my 120k karma account of all comments and posts, and haven’t submitted a single thing to the site in about 2-3 months.

Good riddance, tbh

Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago

I want to believe this is due to the protests and people noping out (and I bet some of it is) but this observation ignores the Covid effect.

Reddit aside, basically every online community I frequent has seen a major dip following the end of the worst of the pandemic. Slack and Discord communities I have been in for years have tanked considerably. Tons of YouTubers I follow have dropped off majorly in the frequency of new videos. Forums are way sleepier. Engagement on a lot of social sharing platforms I use is way down.

I think a big chunk of this is people being able to go out into the real world again and also having spent a couple years being chronically online because that was kinda all there was to do. And now they’re wanting anything but that.

Both mods have been MIA for 2 months from the looks of their profile activity so I’d assume the sub is basically abandoned from a moderation standpoint

Big step forward

This is some of the most uplifting news I’ve seen today

Wugen

Yeah I don’t really get the fanaticism around that browser

Old news but this was a huge self own. Wordpress runs over 40% of the top ranking websites on the internet.

I don’t even work for someone and I fully support this. 5 day work week is an artifact of a different time.

Life isn’t about working.

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I’m assuming you mean the Weekenders. Those are great boots, I own a pair myself. I really like that they have more of a wedge sole than an actual heel. For some reason I just don’t like how I look in heeled boots.

Yeah I just kinda accept that even a really good a non stick is gonna eat it after a while but I’ve found with proper care they’ll last a long time. That means no metal cooking tools and I even avoid really hard plastics. Definitely never use the dish washer and will opt for a long soak type of clean where I don’t have to do any abrasive scrubbing. And then also just not cranking the heat ultra high. Someone else in this thread mentioned the thermal expansion thing and I really think that’s true.

This. The internet is just fucking toxic now. And wherever you go, we’ll… there you are.

That gelatin tip is pretty money. I could totally see that working. Thanks!

Yeah I think if you enjoy the hobby then it makes a ton of sense to spend the time on it. Even if it’s costing you some real money to do it. I definitely have stuff like that.

But generally if something isn’t a hobby for me, I’ll avoid essentially paying myself minimum wage to do it when I can just pick up that thing at the store pretty easily and usually much better than I could do it myself. I already work plenty of hours and I feel like free time is valuable.

Reminds me of the one time I made legit pho broth from scratch. It was a cool experience, but I will never ever do that again for how much time and effort it took and how much it stunk up the kitchen. Especially not when I can get a €10 bowl of it from somewhere that still does a better job than I did.

Yeah I know multiple people who have tried it and said getting consistent results is not easy.

That aside, unless the process itself is like a hobby to someone, it’s almost definitely not worth it from a cost savings perspective. I feel like people often forget the value of their free time. And I doubt I’d ever do any better than one of the local roasters I could buy from.

Neat to try yourself anyway though. Definitely a process most of us take for granted.

Total piss baby energy

He has like zero credibility ethically or technologically speaking. Who would anybody in the right mind go all in on some bullshit system he’s pushing? Especially something so hypothetically pervasive in your life.

Only his nuthuggers and the weirdos who will never be able to quit Twitter would be on board.