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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Here are the subs I used to go to…

    • Askgaybros - Doesn’t exist on the fediverse
    • Gaybros - exists but barely gets one post per day
    • Politics - I’m banned because of my username, but plenty of subscribers. Interestingly I can’t figure out how to contact a moderator to get unbanned. The information page doesn’t list who the moderators are. I had a similarly “offensive” name on Reddit for a decade and never got banned from r/politics
    • askreddit - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
    • Android - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
    • Linux - plenty of subscribers on Lemmy
    • Economics - maybe a post or two a day

    When I go back to Reddit, on desktop, all of those are operating as they normally do, with no perceptible change on the amount of posts.


  • There’s two problems…

    1. There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)

    2. Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn’t matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don’t give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.






  • I had to log into my 84-year-old grandmother’s YouTube account and unsubscribe from a bunch of stuff, “Not interested” on a bunch of stuff, subscribed to more mainstream news sources… But it only works for a couple months.

    The problem is the algorithm that values viewing time over anything else.

    Watch a news clip from a real news source and then it recommends Fox News. Watch Fox News and then it recommends PragerU. Watch PragerU and then it recommends The Daily Wire. Watch that and then it recommends Steven Crowder. A couple years ago it would go even stupider than Crowder, she’d start getting those videos where it’s computer voice talking over stock footage about Hillary Clinton being arrested for being a demonic pedophile. Luckily most of those channels are banned at this point or at least the algorithm doesn’t recommend them.

    I’ve thought about putting her into restricted mode, but I think that would be too obvious that I’m manipulating the strings in the background.

    Then I thought she’s 84, she’s going to be dead in a few years, she doesn’t vote, does it really matter that she’s concerned about trans people trying to cut off little boy’s penises or thinks that Obama is wearing ankle monitor because he was arrested by the Trump administration or that aliens are visiting the Earth because she heard it on Joe Rogan?