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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Shit we will get flooded by hitlerite swarm again.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably an even bigger wave if they put the porn subs behind a paywall

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

We'll be alright as we don't federate with porn instances.

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

And potentially worser yet, just the cheap hiterlites.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

"I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has," Huffman said per Engadget. "But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature."

  1. This will be used by sex workers first.

  2. Gonna do the funniest shit with gamingcirclejerk that the community will absolutely freak out about and take seriously instead of laugh at.

  3. Next blackout protest = paywall all of reddit.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Basic normal public social media = altruism, if it's not behind a paywall

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

paywall all of Reddit

We’re back to SA forums!

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we bully /r/neoliberal hard enough, they might paywall themselves

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago

Why would we need to bully. Sounds like a wet dream for them

[–] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Facky@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there already a subfront that needed reddit gold to view?

[–] naom3@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

r/lounge

Edit:

Welcome to The Lounge, an exclusive Reddit gathering of esteemed gentlesnoos from all walks of life. Memento Humani.

Like a fucking parody of itself

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got into century club and it was really fucking awful. There was one user in particular who was a real beard as personality late middle aged dude. He would post about his mundane suburban life constantly, as if anyone was interested, and would refer to his wife as Mrs WhateverTheFuckHisUsernameWas. It was so incredibly condescending and cringe. But because this was Reddit his boring ass self commentary was fawned upon by other century club users, wanting a bit of parasocial interaction. If you were particularly lucky and lived nearby he might swing by and then post pictures of himself drinking and smoking cigars with you.

To top it off he was a veteran. A real arsehole of a veteran. I think I made some comment about Afghanistan and he responded to me with a story about how he got drunk and ran over a bunch of camels with an LAV, thinking he sounded really cool and unconcerned. True or not, it was just the worst, most childish thing anyone had ever said to me. Just oozing with this need to be seen as some sort of cool dude who couldn't care less about silly little things like human rights or illegal wars.

I left that sub pretty much because of this one dude. Oh, and some other user called MrPants who also referred to his "wifey" as Mrs Pants. 🤮

Ugh, I'm getting angry just thinking about them again

[–] Facky@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

What if she insists on being called Mrs. ThickFoamySharts?

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never believed that chuds would pay for the blue check, but they did in droves.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tons of people ostensibly "on the left" started doing it too in more recent months, I've noticed.

I know it's not as simple as "heuhheuh stop using Twitter dipshits!" but, well, it sort of is that easy individually and what's even easier is not paying for the checkmark because Elon unleashed 4chan on you and you're tired of seeing literal Mein Kampf quotations get 1000 likes because it's shown people while your post is pushed to the bottom. Seems to be what a lot of people did. Instead of going "oh, so this is unusable now. Ok, moving on." they just paid the money. Just ensuring Elon will continue the strategy on one hand and on the other digging in heels because downloading another app or bookmarking another site and just actively avoiding twitter was "too hard."

It's kinda funny too, additionally, that Elon whines about some invisible collusion against him and his "new Twitter" which I refuse to call by its moronic new name. If Microsoft (MSNBC), Murdoch (Fox), CNN (whoever the right wing fuck is there), and all the others had actually seriously wanted to stomp Elon's little Nazi dream under the ground it would take zero effort. Google and Apple take the app down (hate speech problems is a super easy and "defendable" reason although they need no reasons because, you know, capitalism). Microsoft and all the other large tech companies, media companies, etc. overwhelmingly ran by conservative liberals who are incredibly racist, right wing, etc. but have zero interest in all the groyper shit spoiling things for them, just communicate between their top executives and PR people to say "hey. Ol' Zucky has this app over here. Microsoft has some stuff. Let's all just support each other and leave fuckwad Musk boy out to dry. No more Twitter for news, k guys? Alright." If all the pundits and reporters at CNN, NYT, Fox, etc. get the silent memo "do not post in an official capacity on Twitter unless told otherwise" like, that's it. It's gone in a couple weeks at best.

Apple saying they don't want a white genocide conspiracy theory directly under their ad for iPhone is not some vast conspiracy. It's just what every sensible capitalist corporation is gonna do.

So, now that libs are just caving to that addiction to likes and content creators feel they must use it, well, Bluesky was probably the best chance at killing it and Dorsey sat and didn't do a full public launch for way way too long. Yes I know mastodon and stuff exists, but being super realistic, people are generally dumb and they don't think or care about decentralization or centralization or why Twitter sucked to begin with. So, as much as I want that stuff to work, well, I'm not on Twitter or mastodon nor will I be. I'm not on reddit either, speaking of another "we truly deserve the worst fate" situation. People were rightly pissed and then just went right back to taking the shaft happily. Even using and paying for that objectively dog doodoo official app. And now that anger over that has basically all gone away I've seen their teams working on killing the last few alternatives people had to maintain the old site (like sideloading the Apollo app on iOS which still worked, still does actually, but they'll chip away and kill it eventually. They could do it just by changing the API anyway. Then on mobile you're stuck with their constantly changing popup ads, their shit app with ads, or nothing (paying isn't a real option fuck that it was meant to be a free site. It's just an aggregation site). Seriously those cockflaps change the code seemingly multiple times a week to evade the updated adblock lists. It's actually pathologically insane that the Steve Nazi weirdo guy seems to have a team of "your job is just "make the popup work at all times.")

So anyway, hopefully Steve and Elon, you know, well, you know. Funny things.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Apple saying they don't want a white genocide conspiracy theory directly under their ad for iPhone is not some vast conspiracy. It's just what every sensible capitalist corporation is gonna do.

so-far

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the demand destruction will be great for lemmy comms.

Facebook and Instagram should do the same thing asap.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah but then we would have redditors here

[–] BrownMinusBlue@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not if we paywall it for new comers

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10bux for an account but all the slop is free

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lowtax was right (about this one specific thing).

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still can't believe he killed himself

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

It was discovered in his last years that he was a serial spousal abuser, so don't feel too bad.

[–] HumanAnarchist@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

The Reddit blackouts are what motivated me to jump ship from reddit-logo to lemmy (beehaw). I was already a “radicle lib” but lemmy gradually exposed me to more and more hexbear takes. I eventually ditched lemmy and slowly started only visiting hexbear which is what truly radicalized me.

So yes, we will attract annoying libs, but every so often we will radicalize some comrades.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Always have astronaut-1

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

There really should be a "no-politics" (actually communist) lemmy for hobbyists that the inevitable redditers can land on and slowly de-indoctrinate on.

But I'm not signing up to do it, it sounds incredibly tiring.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

excited for when someone posts hexbear to gaming circlejerk and we do a slow motion slaughter of g*mers

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Great, looking forward to the end of that website.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The funniest outcome possible is if only the porn subreddits get paywalled.

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Pay-walling the sub as a joke wasn't funny

[–] HotAtForty@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Enshittify yourself out of existence fucking do it hit that button

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Excellent news! Here we go fediverse!

[–] ahriboy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More people joining Hexbear and *Grad soon.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago
[–] newmou@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I mean no one likes paying companies more than liberals and chuds

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

what the fuck is storm front

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago

Stormfront is a neo-nazi website.

Reddit is a website full of neo-nazis, and is thus often called Stormfront.

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a nazi website that used to be on reddit until negative press forced them to ban it. Hence the reddit-logo logo, that's clipped from an old screenshot. We use it whenever redditor types say racist things, as a "well, what do you expect from that crowd."

[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Please. Just end that site already.