True, but I figure a year gives me time to see how things pan out. You need some time to find out what the community patches will be like.

Such a pathetic state of affairs.

That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Just Tod Howard streamlining your RPG experience so that he can say “it just works”.

I have a personal one year embargo on starfield for this exact reason.

Not touching it t until a year after release, waiting to see if it’s fucked or not… Bethesda, eh.

Cool, thanks for explaining.

I doubt they’d be bothered too much by impacting the first part though, they’ve shown to be entirely willing to lose userbase in order to force their app, so retention probably doesn’t interest them there if people start using the RSS feed as a 3rd party app.

I think the crux of it would come more down to whether or not they want to deal with the potential SEO hit that could come from getting rid of it.

Should be interesting to watch how they handle it, at any rate.

On a personal note, I’m pretty much done with Reddit after how they’ve acted recently, but watching them running around in the road, trying to play with the busses is genuinely fascinating.

Wrong, fuck this guy: :)

Interesting, what does Reddit even use an RSS feed for? I’m trying to figure out why they’d even have that still going today and coming up empty.

That’s cool and everything, but if it’s scraping the site they’ll block that shit straight away, they’ve already said as much and scraper blocking is relatively easy to do these days.

Good luck though.

Ironic.

If you want to stop more people coming, just go and tell people on Reddit to come here.

The trick though is that when you do, give them url’s for both Lemmy and Kbin. From what I saw, doing that somehow made understanding this place so difficult that 95% of people would just start shouting abuse at whoever did it and refuse to ever entertain the idea of switching. :p

I came over in the reddit migration.

I have to admit, the thought definitely occurred to me when I first joined and had a look around, that the people that were already here before would be getting swarmed by masses of redditors that may well not have the same “site-culture” as the people who were here first. I’m actually surprised that this is the first post that I’ve seen complaining about it.

I mean it, I was legitimately expecting a ton of pushback from the existing fedi community over this, and was really surprised when it never seemed to materialize.

For my own experiences of being here (I’m on kbin), this place has been really good-natured, with a better level of well intentioned discussion than what a lot of reddit had, so it’s been a really nice experience so far. What I don’t have though, is any experience of what it was like before we all invaded en-mass, so I have nothing to contrast it with. I can totally see how someone wouldn’t be happy with what’s happened though, the migration has to have changed the space a lot for everyone that was here before.

One thing about my personal experience of how it is here though is that when I first joined I tried to do the thing that you first do with a reddit account, you know, where you immediately un-subscribe from all default subreddits and only join things you’re actually interested in (so, niche subs, etc). Found out that it isn’t quite how it works, but that the subscribed feed is pretty much exactly that but baked-in as standard. I’ve then spent almost my whole time on the subscribed feed since (unless actively looking for new stuff).

So the quality that I’ve experienced here is probably more down to my personal selection of subscribed communities rather than a more holistic view of the platform as a whole. There’s the caveat to everything I just said, I guess.

So yeah, I’m kinda sorry that this happened to you, and I’d also prefer if those people (I’m referring to the bad-actors and arsehole’s side of things) would have just stayed where they were too, but I’m not sure what to do about it other than just blocking/unsubscribing to the communities in question, or blocking the individual accounts of bad actors. I doubt that the second is even remotely scalable though if the userbase gets significantly larger.

where Spez edited comments to make the sub seem to be inciting violence, so he had an excuse to ban it

Not what happened. Spez, fuckwit though he is, actually managed to do a halfway decent trolling there.

A bunch of t_d people were slagging him off and insulting him in their comments. Spez got drunk as shit one night and edited their comments, swapping his name with Trump’s so that it made them look like a bunch of anti-trumpers. Much gnashing of teeth ensued.

Absolutely shouldn’t have done it, especially as CEO of Reddit FFS, but definitely funny as shit.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely a mark against him, but he didn’t get them banned. They thouroughly got themselves banned on their own.

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

That used to be true until they made the insane move of self-hosting all of the images and videos using i.reddit and v.reddit rather than continuing the previous practice of everyone posting all of the media to imgur and youtube, etc.

They just had to own everything themselves, even if it meant giving themselves running costs that would inevitably climb to youtube-like expenses because of all of the media streaming.

Pure madness.

You’re seeing a bubble burst.

The VC money is drying up and the current social media funding paradigm is breaking because of it.

It’s a bit like witnessing the Dot Com bubble burst again tbh.

It’s about time we moved on to a better way of doing things anyway, I’m pretty good with moving away from the old ad-based, exploit your community for profit model, personally.

Absolutely fucking let’s.

Been using boost over on Reddit for years, your app’s awesome.

Can’t wait to buy the fediverse one. You’re going to be appreciated for this, a LOT of us have come over here thanks to spez’s total goddamn madness.

Glad to see you here with us!

P.s. Any chance that it may also support kbin one day too? They should be sorting out their API soon since a lot of devs just migrated over and Ernest actually has help developing kbin now. Sure, I can just make as Lemmy account in the meantime, but it’d be a pretty cool eventual option to have