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   Flaky (flaky@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 01:35:35 JST Flaky

   God, Reddit fucking sucks actually

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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 01:35:34 JST Pawslut420

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     @Flaky the whole reason reddit does it too has to do with the powermod problem, where one moderator can moderate like 1000 subreddits and in part he does it using scripts.

     He does it for free financially, his payment is in the ego trip.

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     Flaky (flaky@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 01:35:35 JST Flaky

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     I was thinking about how the way Reddit works facilitates the "echo chamber" effect really strongly, similar to old forums and fediverse instances. They allow cultures where new information contrary to their beliefs isn't allowed to come in, and anyone delivering such will get toxicity thrown their way.

     It's not even just regular politics either (and I'm using that term in a general sense, not "grrr muh liberals"). You can tell a Linux guy why you need to use Windows and they won't listen. You can tell a Mastodon user why you prefer Bluesky and they'll just shout "CENTRALISED! VENTURE CAPITALISTS!" and screech about Jack Dorsey despite him not being there for like a year or two now.

     I like my forums sometimes, but frankly, I think I prefer the city square approach to that nowadays.

     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: repeated this.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 02:28:17 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @Flaky It helps that tons of instances are defederated from mastosoc and also that I've personally been banned from it 3 times already. :disappoint:
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     Flaky (flaky@furry.engineer)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 02:28:18 JST Flaky

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     btw the best way to be in the city square on fedi is to just join mastodon.social :blobfox: