Bozicus

I hear you on Twitter, I think the only reason they're not going down even faster is that there are people there who are staying for other people. Facebook has that advantage as well. I don't think Reddit has that kind of specific-person pull, but it's too early to tell.

The Twitter advertising thing comes up in the news coverage because it's subject to quantitative analysis, and because advertising is Twitter's main source of $$$. People can point to dropping ad numbers and say "this is how much worse Twitter is than before Elon bought it." And I find it extra funny that Huffman is using it as an example of how he can make Reddit profitable by trashing it, because Twitter is most definitely not profitable, and no one but Elon thinks it's going to become profitable any time soon.

Not to mention the EU privacy laws touching on the right to delete information posted online, even if a company's terms of service say you don't have that right. I just don't understand why they would bother restoring data that bots already have, since it's been free since it was posted, and will continue to be free until the end of the month. (And even then, it's still going to be possible to scrape the site for free).

This is exactly the point of the deletion. Very few comments are actually crucial to the sum of human knowledge, proud as we are of some of them, but anything that makes Reddit more annoying decreases their chance of being profitable. And at the end of the day, people have a right to delete online comments if they want. (Also, most of Reddit is backed up somewhere, anyway, so anyone desperate for a specific post or comment can probably find it. ;) )

Logically, yes, but in the context of journalism, it's actually doing a company a favor to give them a chance to comment before the article is published. If a company wants to say "no comment," or be rude, that's a choice they can make, but a poop emoji is refusing to comment and being rude.

Imagine you're writing an article about Twitter's policies, and you know all your sources are angry, so you think you should try to get Twitter's side. Maybe your sources are distorting the facts. So you send a polite email to Twitter, because you are a professional, and regardless of your own feelings, you want to present the facts. Twitter auto-replies with a poop emoji. No matter how you look at it, that's inappropriate.

And at this point, I don't think anyone is asking Twitter about the facts, politely or otherwise, lol. I'm not sure if a publication would even print a correction from Twitter, if they bothered to submit one. If you tell the press to screw off and not ask you for facts, you will find it very difficult to get them to publish anything you say ever again, even if you want them to. Reddit isn't there yet, but that's the kind of fire they're playing with.

Thanks for the link, that article is delightfully savage. I laughed so hard my cat came over to check if I was dying.

Same, their coverage has made me feel way less terrible about all of this. Just knowing someone is out there calling Reddit on their BS makes it easier for me to accept that Reddit is no longer a safe place for me and move on.

Elon himself has gone really right wing, and coming out in public with some of the same hate and nastiness that Twitter showcases. There was a stink a while back because companies were seeing their ads posted next to full-on neoNazi content, which is absolutely the last thing a large company wants when they pay for advertising on a social media platform. I'm glad it's not affecting you personally, but it's part of why people are trying to move to p. much any other platform.

A friend of mine once told me that a lot of the south is large communities of marginalized people being oppressed by a minority of right-wing shitwads. It blew my mind, and I think the demographic data supports that description in a lot of places.

There's a Dorian Gray joke in here somewhere, lol.

The ads disguised as posts annoyed me so much I nearly left a year ago. I found a way to block them, but I'm glad to have found a substitute I can use.

I've been deleting my content on Reddit, and while I'm sad to see some of it go, I would not be happy to find it's been copied over to Lemmy without my permission. Also, a lot of what I post on any forum is meant to be part of the conversation happening when I post, and having it sit around getting stale for 10+ years isn't necessarily a good thing. If people liked what I wrote and wanted to hold onto it in their own records, that's fine, but that's not the same as migrating my content to a different platform, context, and audience. Reposting takes control of the content out of my hands, and puts it in theirs, and possibly makes my content benefit people I don't like. (Fortunately, it is extremely unlikely anyone does want to repost my content, lol).

As far as whether it's good for Lemmy... I think it depends on whether or not we want to recreate a subreddit. Putting up the same content as a particular sub is going to tend to recreate the vibe of that sub. IMO that could be either very good or very bad, depending on the sub.

Slightly off topic, but OMG I would absolutely love a community that's "NSFW, but actually OSHA violations." It would probably be a pain in the buns to mod, though.