ZeroCool

I miss the good old days when reddit admins still pretended to be part of the community. Anybody remember the "when this post is [x hours old] reddit will go down for [xyz]" posts? Then the admins were in the thread cracking jokes with everyone about the fact that their servers were powered by hamster wheels and they couldn't afford a programmer? Oh how the times have changed...

I totally understand your point. Just saying, I did my time and I'm burned out. I like the fediverse and I like Lemmy. I trust that there are good people willing to do the work here though. It sucks that some of the niche subs I loved on reddit still only really exist there... But there was a time when they didn't exist on reddit either. People like me built those communities on reddit. People will do so here too.

Yep, she was a good girl that definitely deserved better. Tasty treats? Yes. Becoming the face of Elon Musk's neo-fascist movement? No.

Why not make 'em? That’s what I did.

The honest answer is, I was a reddit mod for 12 years. I gradually built my community up from nothing to just under 150k users when I quit, which was actually really impressive for my niche sport. I even paid money out of my pocket to host monthly contests in the early days because I cared and it was a simple way to bring people to the sub from other places on the internet...

But the API fiasco on reddit was my wake up call... I really should've seen the writing on the wall much sooner. But I didn't... So I have no interest in managing communities anymore. It's a largely thankless task and the work never ends. I truly appreciate anyone willing to step up to create/mod communities on lemmy but count me out. I'm going to contribute by posting interesting articles to relevant communities whenever possible - but that's as far as I'm willing to go these days. I burned out.

On a friday evening/night in the US? lol. Not exactly peak hours. I wonder what stupid shit they pushed to prod.

As a side note, I sideload Apollo for a few niche communities on reddit that don't exist here on Lemmy. But I was having intermittent issues a few hours before reddit actually went dark.

Presumably Trump? But that can't be right... We all know Trump is just President Musk's "coffee boy."

There is no debate about what Bannon did at CPAC outside of Fox News panels. And downplaying it is a bad look. So knock it off.

A cause of death hasn’t been released but he was 86 so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just natural causes from the stress of his upcoming trial and sentencing. But damnit, he really should’ve died behind bars.

It’s a shame this robs the victim of seeing actual justice. But I would still consider one less violent racist in the world to be a win.

I should hope so! The school deserves it. Multiple people would have had to drop the ball for this to happen. It’s just baffling because they were clearly making some sort of effort to help her. I can’t believe nobody bothered to even ask if her mother had been informed.

Downvoting because of the blue checkmark.

Sorry for being so pedantic, but I don’t want to support Twitter’s pay-for-engagement system, or anything about Twitter at all, even indirectly through a screenshot.

Downvoting because of asinine slacktivism. It’s a screenshot posted in a community that’s almost entirely screenshots of tweets. Get a grip.