#5 is also pretty weak. It's just a link to a post where someone is complaining that the admins won't remove some free speech that they disagree with.
You can't just call people bigots because they are enforcing certain rules. The admins aren't the ones posting the content.
This is exactly why I can't use the website.
I switched to an app (Jerboa for Lemmy) and that works, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do on PC.
Reddit was going in the wrong direction long before the API changes. We've been fighting the company forever.
I'll be honest that I haven't completely stopped using Reddit, but I'm trying really hard to make the switch to Lemmy. As long as other people are doing the same, and I can find the same content here, I'll never go back. I'm here because of decentralization. After Twitter, I'm never going to put effort into something that can be controlled by a corporation again.
Look. I've been part of subreddits that have bots that downvote EVERYTHING automatically.
There are malicious people everywhere. It's one thing to inform people about how the system works, but it's almost pointless when the system is designed in a way that is abusable.
These are things that Lemmy needs to change in order to evolve with the larger userbase.
That's what I'm more upset about.
Who gives a shit about a couple of billionaires. Why does this have to be a world-wide news story? Why don't we care about the 100s of refugees that die all the time in maritime accidents and why are those things dominating the news?
Time and time again we give the rich people all of our attention. Fuck that. We shouldn't be letting the media direct our attention like this.
Tax payers already paid for the damn thing... We might as well get some use out of it.
And some massive lawsuits to handle.
I'm not sure how quickly that process happens. I heard that the hooks that hold the ballast slowly dissolve in salt water, and the ballast will eventually fall off, but there was no information on how long that process would take.
I'm assuming that it isn't necessarily an emergency system, and it could be weeks for that to happen. Seems more of a recovery system that an emergency system.
If you read the articles closely, the banging stopped a long time ago. They had 40hrs of oxygen, max, left on Tuesday, so time is running short.
Supposedly a Navy drone sub has arrived in Newfoundland that is capable of lifting the Titan. But they're really running down to the wire and they still have to locate the sub and get the drone out to the location.
I think there's probably a reasonable explanation for this. The entire idea of Mastodon was built around getting away from companies like Meta. The admins arent going to just do a 180 on that.
It's more likely that Meta wants to do a similar thing as Truth Social and they are doing some consultation work. It would be good money and I don't blame them for taking it.
Obviously Reddit is going to retain strong control over the default subs. Personally I miss all the NSFW content on the frontpage, but when I saw all these subs making a statement with it, I knew immediately that it wouldn't end well for them.
It was a good protest, but anyone surprised that Reddit removed those mods is naive.
Plus, overall reddit interaction has barely gone down. Daily visits went from 55 million to 52. That's a drop in the bucket.
One thing I learned a long time ago is that internet people just don't give a shit about doing what is right, only doing what is easy.
So yes, spreading news about Lemmy is more important than trying to take down reddit by not posting.