Oh and now you combined DARVO and projection.

DARVOing too I see.

“overconfident willful ignorance”

Well if that isn’t projection.

That was a ride. I’m poor AF but even if I wasn’t I can’t see myself coughing up money for reddit.

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They wanted to switch over to a subscription model. I assume many people like me who used to use infinity just bailed.

Edit: I actually dug up the source for this. It still worked for non subscribers until now. Apparently that will stop on august 30th. The headline is misleading. Starting in September it will be the aforementioned subscription model.

Good to hear an update on the issues that blind moderators face even if it is not a very positive one. And of course they came up with fancy stickers and flairs for helpful mods for a community where Admins are supposed to help mods. That’s what the mods really needed!

We are animals.

I winder if there are real users among those who actually are long term subscribers. Because the idea of the users uniformly organizing and doing the same task like ants has a certain appeal.

It’s fascinating that reddit is still continuing it’s crusade against moderators after their attempts to find new moderators are so extremely successful. You’d think you can only shoot yourself in the foot so often.

Their complete inability to read the room is impressive. Like I’m autistic and I’ve never been this unable. They really have a special skill to self sabotage with that. I’m in awe in the worst possible way.

I’m slowly reaching the point where I wonder how the majority of mobile users apparently always used reddit official “app”. Like… there’s more effective ways to torture yourself if you’re into that…

Any day now.

I think the number of devs compounds the fuck up rate.

Wow. I’ve seen then mentioned a few times on here before but never knew the background. I’m a particular fan of them claiming they made john oliver famous through the spam.

The cynic in me absolutely suspectes reddit kept them around just for the traffic they generated. But as soon as the protests started it seems to have been “not like this”.

I haven’t used windows in about a decade. I’m … Floored. Seems thats really not an experience one needs to have.

Ah I see. I view spez as not stupid but terminally selfish (obviously not mutually exclusive tho) so I have different priorities. Thanks for explaining! :)

The mobile site, however, still shows an annoying popup asking users if they want to open a post in the app, as many users pointed out under the announcement post.

So the page looks prettier while harassing you to download the ad and tracker infested app? That’s EXACTLY the improvement everybody was waiting for!

You’d go back to reddit while spez is still in charge? 😱

I think 7 years? I browsed reddit for a while before that reading up on my interests but eventually I created an account. Spent a LOT of time on subs for people who were abused as children. Therapy was used against me as part of the abuse. I am triggered by therapists now -.-" so these online self help spaces were a major part of my journey to understand and start recovery. It became a cornerstone to help me become a person.

Eventually several of these subs had a lot of internal drama. Back then I felt fealty to these communities and tried super hard to fix it. No avail. In a way I did my reorienting and mourning my lost community back then. I cut back on reddit use like 80% already going from many hours a day to maybe a few times a week? I’d still engage if something caught my attention. Especially in the refugee subs about childhood abuse that sprung up.

The recent protests brought that down to “only if I need some specific information”. Maybe twice a month? I don’t engage at all anymore. I also didn’t feel like talking to a brick wall again to attempt to fix an online place. The rhethoric and even some methods between spez and some mods I tangled with is similar enough. I just left this time around. Let my actions speak. I can’t bring my self to delete my comments tho.

I still miss a place where people intuitively get what I’ve been through because they have similar stories. And I’d like to pass it forward some more. I haven’t found anything similar on the fediverse yet. But I’m in a place where I don’t need it much anymore. It’s still just sad that a handful of humans can destroy communities like this. It had such a big impact on my life.

Thanks for reading my sad ramblings!