According to users on #lemmy#reddit is now restoring users deleted and edited comments. We expected this but what I didn't expect was to find an FAQ from Reddit stating that they cannot ever restore deleted comments.
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Once again Louis Rossman knocks it out of the park with his summary of the #Reddit situation. In short, u/Spez thinks "You are noise". Nothing but noise, of no value. Lets keep up the strike and show him he's so so terribly wrong.
Hey, any other Reddit mods on here participating in the Reddit Strike? Us fellow Rubyists have noticed a pattern of 5-10 messages per-day from users asking to join the sub-reddit, but they're predominately new users with 1 karma and were created in 2020... I've seen this on /r/ruby and another mod confirms it on /r/rubyonrails (which is much smaller). Could be lurkers trying to join, but could also be bot accounts trying to infiltrate the sub-reddits. Given the recent comments from the Reddit CEO about allow users to vote out striking moderators, this pattern seems ominous. Anyone else noticing any unusual patterns or upticks? #reddit#redditblackout#redditstrike
New thoughts and feelings spark to life as long-dormant neurons reactivate. My attention returns, a natural inquisitiveness about the world around me coming back to the forefront. The endless grey has some dabs of colour returning, life's endless wonders beginning to wow me like they once did. I want to do something, make something, build something as an act of worship to the wonder of the world around me!
The ease in which I quit Twitter didn’t surprise me, but how I just up and peaced out from Reddit is wild. I never was a big Twitter user (mostly lurking/consuming) but I used Reddit All. The. Time. I think having faith in the #Fediverse after using Mastodon has helped ease the emotional transition.