Old Man Fire

we knew we had the power position when lemmy’s world stood it’s ground and didn’t explode on the day before yesterday.

web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they’re trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed

when has the narrative ever changed away from that attitude? look at how mutahar has acted - knowing that we’re doing the right thing but still throwing as much contempt into everything as he possibly can. the only times that people side with mods is when we’re taking enormous damage so that general users don’t cop it instead, or if there’s a power-mad despot who should never have control of anything larger than a toy train

nah, crypto is smoke-and-mirrors and he knows that this isn’t, so he’s run away

the instance that i’m typing from is being hosted in someone’s cupboard with some pretty off-the-shelf parts. i’v probably got enough parts for something similar laying around my house. if instances stay to low populations and the workload is distributed amongst all of them, it’s not actually stressing the system all that much at all.

that being said, as soon as the aussie zone sysadmin asks for financial assistance, i’ll be putting my hand into my pocket. again, if enough people do that then it’s not much of a cost at all

the thing that did happen with digg that didn’t happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.

now, people deliberately don’t use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change …

lol nah, the best mods are the ones that nobody notices because they just deal with everything immediately and with a friendly and happy attitude

oh cheers, thank you! i was not aware of that. thanks again!

spotify, believe it or not. for the genres of music that i nose around in it has an amazing catalog, i can listen all thru the house thanks to alexa, and i can favourite or skip a track with voice commands. i pay for the premium version because i hate ads and also because i want to listen to music at higher quality than 192kbps

shazam is one click away from being opened after i unlock my phone at any point. holy shit that’s been a good resource when i’m out somewhere and hear something i like.

after that, however, i spend a lot of time on bandcamp hunting for obscure and decent sounding remixes of popular songs. THAT’s what i dump on a dancefloor full of hippies. if you get the girls dancing then the boys dance with them and with charismatic music you can turn it into a party instead of just a bunch of people dancing to music

oh, and when you’re listening to music that you’re thinking about DJing with, you absolutely utterly NEED an enormous subwoofer and a surround sound hifi so you can hear it the way it’s supposed to sound

general user experience is more important for a userbase leaving a website. mods are a vast minority in those numbers, and people don’t notice them gone until the shit hasn’t just hit the fan but has splattered everywhere and they’re looking for whoever the fuck is going to clean it up, or to put it another way a few days during which the mod in question has been sipping wine and sunbathing my the pool instead of, well, cleaning up shit

excuse the rant. as far as i’m aware, most mods i speak to use a desktop with the mod toolbox extension installed

i rekon you’re right. the exodus from digg that populated reddit in the first place was a result of a UI change that users wouldn’t tolerate, and thanks to the shit quality of the official reddit app compared to the third-party apps, a large chunk of the userbase is going to have to decide whether they want to deal with a shitty UI or not

personally i ran my sub thru the protest, opened up as planned afterwards because the users were spamming me with requests to join the sub as approved users, and then started thinking about what the next step is going to be. i’ll take a day or two to make that decision too, because it’s not a tiny community over in that subreddit and those users are who i work for, not the reddit admins.

figuring that we’ll shut down for two days every week for the rest of the month, and depending on what the users opinions are i’m not sure if the sub is going to continue operating. i DO know that if the sub moves website that i don’t want to moderate any more. i lost interest in the topic of the sub a few years ago and have only been moderating out of generosity and simply to keep the place operating. i would have done it if nobody else did, but someone did, and they can have fun with the role.

“fun” /s

my priority is the user experience and making that as pleasant as possible before doing anything else. i asked the users of the sub whether we were going to do the protest and followed what their answer was. not sure how many people realise that experienced mods are kinda vital to internet forums actually working and not descending into shitfights and nazi recruitment zones. the number ain’t big, i know that.