• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Someone made a post years ago of all the super users and I blocked them all and it was a really fun experience until others rose up again and I didn’t have a list.

      I ended up blocking anyone with 6 digit post karma that I came across.

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        5 months ago

        Wow, I remember that awesome post. I did the same thing as you. And you’re right, it made for a much better experience for a while there.

        I have discovered blocking early and often helps a lot on lemmy, too.

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          5 months ago

          Lemmy is too quiet though, I block and sometimes tag but I genuinely see the same people in these threads every day, I wouldn’t be long being alone in the platform.

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            Lemmy should have shined when the API kicked in, but we had a number of users being shouty ass hats that probably helped to drive users away. Fortunately they seem to have quieten down since for one reason or another, but Lemmy adoption doesn’t seem to have increased again yet - maybe one day.

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              Ultimately the super loud leftists were super annoying. I’m not saying their message or stance was good/bad or anything, I’m just saying that most folks don’t come to places like Lemmy or Reddit to talk political theory. Those lemmygrad hexbear types can’t get through a post about a bump on a log without talking about politics and social theory.

              Conservatives would get the same opinion from me but they are far fewer here, so I have no notes on them.

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                5 months ago

                For what’s it worth, I’m glad the shouty ones were leftists because otherwise I wouldn’t even give lemmy a chance.

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    5 months ago

    Given how rigged the entire experience became over the years, what with the relationships between supermods and admins, the number of openly broken promises and the sheer amount of asshattery involved in everyday happenings, the neverending lies, and then marginalizing the visually impaired in one stroke with a response that seemed like a useless long form of “so what are you gonna do about it?” just like they did with the API call debacle, this seems far more like a toilet factory reserving shares in shit for its biggest shitters more than anything else. And at least a toilet factory would have something tangible in porcelain to show for it in the end, but Reddit’s just a huge steaming pile of ad riddled bot shit now.

    I think this IPO reserve probably sounds reallllly good to both the very guilty and the very gullible, and to absolutely no one in between.