Gallowboob basically destroyed the site by popularizing “safe” feel-good subreddits like r/nextfuckinglevel. Then of course, the tumblr diaspora fiasco.

It’s textbook enshittification. Start with a great but unprofitable idea that attracts users, monopolize the market, then debase the service to extract cash from the cornered userbase. We have to show them that we aren’t going to put up with it. Any enshittified service should be immediately boycotted.

Leave and don’t ever look back. Fediverse is growing by the day.

While it may not be the most noble cause, this is proof that people, specifically young people, do have the power to change things if sufficiently organized and united.

The less organized and fragmented the populous, the easier it is for the rich to take advantage of us.

Dictatorship. Voting is democracy, and they don’t want you to have it.

Do we even know where he is? Or if he’s even alive?

Just instance hop bruv, you cannot be banned or censored from Lemmy.

Enshittification.

It’s insane that there isn’t more pushback against this. Like karma wasn’t enough, they needed to add a hidden gestapo system to degrade user experience even more.

As they should.

True, but the difference in the moderation suite is immense. Reddit makes it laughably easy to ban and black hole users with a single button press. Some users are banned preemptively by auto mod rules and subreddit settings. I believe there are more banned users than active users on most large subreddits.

Honestly the biggest problem is that people don’t fight unfair moderation in the first place. Mods should be shamed for these practices and if they engage in them, every tool at our disposal should be used to annoy them into quitting moderation altogether.

Exactly. Our detention facilities are literally designed for torture. People will say they are simply built cheaply or carelessly, but I don’t buy it. These places are specifically designed to maximize psychological suffering. And there is absolutely no reason why they need to be that way.