Abridgedlife

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What Did People Do Before Smartphones? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Abridgedlife@latte.isnot.coffee 8 points 1 year ago

I remember reading an article saying the creativity that comes only after you experience profound boredom is what we’ve lost. We have so many options so easily available, the next dopamine hit is only ever minutes away a lot of people never need to make it past superficial boredom

Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest in c/reddit@lemmy.ml
[–] Abridgedlife@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Probably because he has back end control to make sure elections give him what he wants with the veneer of popular support.

Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest in c/reddit@lemmy.ml
[–] Abridgedlife@latte.isnot.coffee 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It’s not like they don’t know it’s not paid, if it’s a fun hobby people choose to support the communities they love they’d spend the time anyway. But with every move to make Reddit more corporate it makes the sites reliance on volunteers more exploitative.

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Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest (www.msn.com)
 

Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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That time the boys team had our back against sexist uniforms (latte.isnot.coffee)
 

This story sort of fits here, just trying to add content.

Some backstory, my old school used to provide new uniforms every year for certain athletics teams. For some reason staring two years before all uniform ordering was decided by the head coach for a completely different sport. He had a reputation for ordering all the girls teams the skimpiest clothes he could find in the catalog.

My sport had a boys team and girls team under one coach. The boys team were issued knee length shorts and jerseys, the girls team was given skintight spandex leotards. ( I think he knew a girl on our team really hated the things because he stopped ordering them as soon as she graduated) The first year we just sucked it up and wore them. The second year my coach dug out old uniforms from storage for the girls team and while we were required to wear the official uniform we just wore school branded clothes over it for competition.

So next season rolls around and there is a new rule, the girls team are no longer permitted to wear any clothing not part of the official uniform during competitions. Also the new uniforms include a pair of shorts that are slit all the way to the waist band. The boys uniforms have not changed. These are the official uniforms and we have to order them for the teams, but there is no rule saying the boys can’t wear extra clothes so the boys team put down their clothing sizes for the skimpy shorts and the girls ordered the knee length shorts in their size. The boys team competing in the uniforms caused enough awareness that all uniform decisions were handed back to the individual sports coaches.

for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Abridgedlife@latte.isnot.coffee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not sad. It started to feel a bit like a bad addiction. The huge increase in casual users also brought a whole bunch of corporate accounts running heavy PR activity on reddit, and quality of discussion has tanked, probably from a lot of bots commenting.

I stayed on Reddit a lot for support forums that were prone to brigading attacks. I know how hard the mods were working to keep the spaces constructive. Reddit is not only trying to sell my attention as a commodity they own, but also under appreciating the mods volunteer hours for why the site was worth it.