Sign language yes, real time captions no. Only whatever live transcription crap your phone or computer could do
brbposting 41 points 3 years ago
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Nobody 63 points 3 years ago
Your source admits Spez was a jailbait mod. MAYBE he was made one without knowing, but he DEFINITELY could have removed himself and didn’t.
Spez was a jailbait mod for years. That’s a fact.
brbposting 28 points 3 years ago
btw I actually might be helping you attack him better
Instead of a spurious claim he actively managed a pedo sub—
—a more definite claim he permitted a pedo sub to remain on his site? (Assuming he was aware of the sub, which I bet you could find indications of)
brbposting 4 points 3 years ago
Maybe he was made one without him knowing…
He could have removed himself immediately upon noticing…
Source for the fact he noticed?
Ewww I’m defending Spez
brbposting 3 points 3 years ago
Source? See
Cybersteel 3 points 3 years ago
That goes for most sub culture. A new thing pops up, comics, tabletops, internet thing. It slowly gets popular. At it's zenith some wise guy realize he can make a quick buck out of it, wrestles control over it. more people show up less informed but still keen to try it out. Leaves the old guards behind.
CowsLookLikeMaps 14 points 3 years ago
Aaron Swartz, the internet's own boy.
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Socsa 20 points 3 years ago
There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.
Littleborat 7 points 3 years ago
Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.
It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.
phoenixz 6 points 3 years ago
All that costs time, money and resources whereas flatput lying and fucking people over is cheap. You calculate how much you'll lose, see that it's enormously bad qualitatively but you won't lose too many visitors because most people don't give a fuck so you go with it.
BeatTakeshi 3 points 3 years ago
RwF
nils 3 points 3 years ago
That's the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would've made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.
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AgentGrimstone 106 points 3 years ago
Oh so now they don't like ads
ThePowerOfGeek 90 points 3 years ago
Aww, you hurt their delicate fee-fees! How mean! /s
Also, lol at that pathetic sycophant's reply below your comment. Dude needs to stop twerking for spez.
ThePowerOfGeek 16 points 3 years ago
Good point.
tygerprints 2 points 3 years ago
I doubt they have delicate fee fees or feel feels or whatever. I don't care whether they even care that I was banned, all I know is my ban from Reddit is a badge of honor and proves I can get under other people's skin. You always know you're telling the truth when it makes people angry enough to ban you.
whofearsthenight 26 points 3 years ago
Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.
Well, at least he's right about the ego thing. He's going to get traded for a handful of batteries within the first week lol.
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livus 6 points 3 years ago
Cannibals might. If they're not rechargeable.
Spez might be worthless in a Mad Max style apocalypse but he's several few good meals kept in a basement in a The Road style apocalypse.
ZombieTheZombieCat 18 points 3 years ago
he was a competitive ballroom dancer
That's a new one.
Illuminostro 8 points 3 years ago path: 0 5754057 5766331, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 1
ShitOnABrick -2 points 3 years ago
Hail all mighty master spezy wezy uwu 👉👈
BilboBargains 65 points 3 years ago
Reddit has become Facebook with a different management team. These people are motivated by profit and that's the only way their decisions make any kind of sense. Whenever we mix the profit motive with a service for people, the people will always play second fiddle. It's why mixing profit with healthcare is inhumane and it's what's so great about Wikipedia.
fluxxom -6 points 3 years ago
i'm of another notion, i think its more about controlling public space for discourse itself than it is about profit.. they want to sever access to whatever they might consider subversive dialogue and control the next generation's access to it.
RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 3 years ago
Occam’s Razor.
The only thing that matters is profits. Those profits come from advertising. The businesses doing the advertising do not want their brands associated with things that are controversial or offensive to the general public.
Therefore Reddit is bending to their will.
Because profits.
No conspiracy necessary.
morgunkorn 63 points 3 years ago
🫡 thank you for your service 🫡
The_Picard_Maneuver 57 points 3 years ago
HonkTonkWoman 10 points 3 years ago
u/Ademir… A Lemming on a mission with a swagger that will set the world at ease…
CosmicTurtle 53 points 3 years ago
So...what exactly was this event? Was it like a AMA? Or was it like one of those corporate circle jerk things where everyone says what they are supposed to say?
scytale 34 points 3 years ago
If I’m guessing correctly, it’s a modcon, which makes it even more pathetic for mods to attend an event hosted by the very people who have given them grief this past few months, just so they can feel special with their own exclusive event.
Throwaway4669332255 50 points 3 years ago
I got banned because I said "lemmy dot world" in reply to someone who said they wished reddit had an alternative.
CIA_Chatbot 43 points 3 years ago
We must all remember spez’ has an abnormal love of cats, among his other issues. Like keeping slaves and resource hoarding.
FollyDolly 25 points 3 years ago
Buffalox 41 points 3 years ago
Yeah redditors can do that too, it would probably look somewhat like this:
Come to reddit, we have CEO who's an idiot but controls everything, a 100% closed API unless you pay exorbitant prices to use it, and we have advertisements everywhere, but WE NEED TO MAKE MONEY. So please come. We also have sociophants and trolls.
/Steve Huffman
pivot_root 12 points 3 years ago
We need details, please.
gravitas_deficiency 37 points 3 years ago
lol you fucking legend.
hakunawazo 35 points 3 years ago
If he doesn't want to accept dissenting opinions, he should do like Mr. Burns and only allow prefabricated text.
Lisa: "Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?"
tygerprints 34 points 3 years ago
My lifetime ban from Reddit (which resulted from saying that we need a more progressive political candidates in our country) was a badge of honor, proving my opinions to be correct and undigestible to fascists. So I had a medallion engraved with my date of expulsion which I keep in a place of honor over my fireplace.
bl4ckblooc 15 points 3 years ago
Mine was for saying that Nazi’s were a part in a war from 70 years ago, and that they should be dead now.
tygerprints 2 points 3 years ago
I actually got banned from Facebook for posting about getting sick on my birthday, saying I hated being sick on my birthday. They replied it was "hate speech" and so I was banned for a week (!).
tigeruppercut 5 points 3 years ago
Well of course spez was gonna take that personally haha
Sanyanov 5 points 3 years ago
Being banned from somewhere doesn't prove you right or wrong. It just means those particular people are angry at you, rightfully or not.
Just a subtle reminder because fascists and nazis themselves regularly use such kinds of phrases. Doesn't make them any more right or honorable.
Do what is right, and always strive for freedom, and you'll be good :)
tygerprints 3 points 3 years ago
My ban from Reddit proves I was right - you know you're right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you. In the same way, books are truthful when they get banned for daring to speak the truth.
I always do the left thing (not the right) and achieve my freedom by not staying quiet or bowing down to fascists.
EssentialCoffee 3 points 3 years ago
you know you're right when it makes any group angry enough to ban you.
Not really. If you say Hitler was right, or any of the myriad of other terrible statements you could make, and you get permabanned for it, you're still wrong.
tygerprints 2 points 3 years ago
The difference is, those statements "Hitler was right" or any other kind of mentally ill belief are by all universal standards immoral and wrong. They don't get banned for being truthful at all, but for being morally reprehensible. I was banned for being morally above and beyond what Reddit can claim as moral standards.
Sanyanov 2 points 3 years ago
You miss the important part.
You ARE right, and you should fight for the truth, and not bow to anyone, but the mere fact that you were banned isn't proof of anything.
People calling for genocide get banned. Outright nazis get banned, even while they try to move the gate. Many terrible people do get banned. Doesn't make them any more right. One can just be too stubborn to make reasoning impossible.
"I was banned thereby I'm right" is a very dangerous idea that often fuels your - and our - enemies and blinds them to the reason. It serves nothing but radicalization, for the right or, very often, for the wrong.
Saying those things validates the ideas that end up turning against you - and against the reason and the truth.
tygerprints 1 point 3 years ago
No I'm not missing your point at all, I get it, I simply don't agree with it. My ban from Reddit proves I was right in bright neon lights. Because Reddit is going backwards and devolving into the lowest form of human sewage - fascism.
Yes people calling for genocide should be banned and nazis and homophobes and other degenerates as well - but not because what they are saying has any modicum of truth to it, just the opposite. They get banned because of being horribly wrong, and unable to perceive the difference between reality and mental delusion.
So I'm not entirely at odds with your viewpoint, I'm only saying that more myself in this one particular instance, my ban was proof of the veracity of my statements.
FlavoredButtHair 33 points 3 years ago
Don't forget, he used to moderate r/jailbait.
TheSlad 31 points 3 years ago
If i recall, at the time sub owners could designate anyone as a moderator without them having to accept the position, meaning that its very possible he was made a mod of the subreddit as a joke/troll but never actually interacted with it.
Hes still a dipshit though
tourist 8 points 3 years ago
Yep. Zach Braff's AMA account was made a moderator for a bunch of hardcore porn subs. Probably still is.
You would still expect better from a site's founder than an actor who probably still had a Hotmail account at the time
Stern 3 points 3 years ago
Correct. Early reddit you could add whoever you wanted as a mod to your subreddits, no invites required. This changed after a crab bucket subreddit was created and got up to several hundred mods re-adding anyone who left.
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Socsa 2 points 3 years ago
He is clearly steeped in 2000s chan culture, and jb was a big part of it at that time. It's a big part of the reason I stopped using 4chan, because it got to the point where there was too much chance of randomly coming across that shit. Reading between the lines, it's very likely that he's a fucking pedo.
Karyoplasma 29 points 3 years ago
Spez has like a bunch of fore written answers and then tries to fit them in the questions asked
-TitusRex, hero, probably banned now as well
lmao
TheLobotomist 8 points 3 years ago
It was probably a smart watch where he read what to answer
GutsBerserk 18 points 3 years ago
You a real one bruh!
bouldering_barista 18 points 3 years ago
Worth it. It's a win/win really
CaptnNMorgan 18 points 3 years ago
I hadn't thought about it until now but what do redditors who didn't migrate say about us? I'm really curious now but I don't want to look. I've only been on the site a couple times since the blackout and they were for specific reasons * I don't want to ruin my streak * . Does anyone here use both regularly?
*Edit
CaptnNMorgan 13 points 3 years ago
Okay, that's slightly disappointing but nothing surprising. I appreciate the well thought out response, thank you.
Kind of seems like the scale will always be tipped on reddits side but hopefully that doesn't discourage the people who actually do come here. As long as Lemmy is active, I don't plan on using anything else. My reddit account was over a decade old and I'm hoping my Lemmy account will last even longer. Should I move instances?
v4ld1z 9 points 3 years ago
Considering that Reddit was the safe haven for people trying to escape "mainstream" social media who didn't want anything to do with 4chan, it isn't surprising that most of the fanbase is loyal to them. It is a little disheartening, indeed, but I guess it'll take a couple more of these big fuck-ups for something to change noticeably.
I am, however, very fine with the amount of engagement we have here despite the lower user base. Might actually be better exactly because of that.
I mean, the instance isn't really that important, is it. You can still interact with everything on here regardless of the instance your account is registered to.
Cybersteel 2 points 3 years ago
But if you main decides to defederate from a few fav instances you're out of luck.
Socsa 2 points 3 years ago
And in reality, fuck capitalism. But we don't need it in every thread. It's exhausting. And the tankies brand is way more "fuck the US" than "fuck capitalism." They are just violent, often weirdly bigoted, and poorly informed.
SgtAStrawberry 15 points 3 years ago
From the place I still use as they didn't move, I haven't seen a single mentioning of Lemmy, fedivers, black out or anything close. Makes sense as those communities didn't even try moving.
In one of the subs I did notice a quality decline and it moving a bit from, people talking about shared experiences with a medical condition, to being babys first experience with medical condition, but it has moved back even so slightly, but the average age seems to have gone down.
The other one for a game. I can proudly say is just as low quality as before, but I stick around to give tech support, even if it of the absolute most basic nature sometimes, and keep up with updates, bugs and community fixes.
CaptnNMorgan 7 points 3 years ago
Wow, that last sentence makes you a saint.
SgtAStrawberry 1 point 3 years ago
Thank you.
krimsonbun 11 points 3 years ago
the protests were an embarrassing failure but lemmy isn't
dumpsterlid 2 points 3 years ago
Hell yeah this is great, especially if it is done in a cheeky way like you are poking the bear a little bit while also genuinely inviting people to try the fediverse out.
driving_crooner 11 points 3 years ago
Grande Ademir, melhor admin da melhor comunidade de lemmy.
To everyone else, come to lemmy.eco.br (or to Brazil)!!
driving_crooner 2 points 3 years ago
Kkk, acho que me tá confundindo com alguém mais
ademir 2 points 3 years ago
hahaha desculpa. confundi com o @groovyLizard42@lemmy.eco.br
groovyLizard42 2 points 3 years ago
Po, valeu por me deixar nos seus pensamentos kkkkkkkkk
No fim o problema continua, mas as permissões se ajustaram, então tudo bem :)
rageagainstmachines 9 points 3 years ago
You are the people's champ.
cashews_best_nut 8 points 3 years ago
That face insists upon itself.
Marsey_Enjoyer 8 points 3 years ago
#PunchSpezsrslurredlittleface
God_Is_Love 7 points 3 years ago
This is the greatest thing I could have seen on the top of my page 😂 Keep spreading the word Lemmings!!
thefluffiest 5 points 3 years ago
Spez has that empty stare of a person who knows the devil is about to collect
sarcasticsunrise 3 points 3 years ago
Based and anti-corpo pilled
F_Haxhausen 3 points 3 years ago
I don't understand. Why did you get banned?
F_Haxhausen 4 points 3 years ago
Ooohh I see it. Apologies. I don’t know how I missed it.
psycho_driver 3 points 3 years ago
What is up with Mr. Nosferatu hands in the little corner picture?
ReveredOxygen 10 points 3 years ago
Sign language interpreter, presumably
corsicanguppy -2 points 3 years ago
Oh god, that was cringey. Please, if you want to dunk on spez, or play to the camera in other ways, please write like you passed the 4th grade.
ech -2 points 3 years ago
We can't see much of anything. The image shows all of 4 comments. But I can guess, considering the all capital username and copy-paste format - I would bet money that they posted that same thing over and over again. Also, I know this platform is understandably anti-Reddit, but I really doubt they're banning people for a single comment about Lemmy.
ech 3 points 3 years ago
I'm not defending the Spez stream. I'm saying spamming a chat with JOINLEMMY is just going to make Lemmy look bad and associate it to new people as an annoyance rather an interesting alternative.
RightHandOfIkaros -9 points 3 years ago
To be fair, I would imagine that this event had some rule about not advertising in the chat in the ToS or stream rules fine print somewhere.
And as much as I dislike Steve and Reddit, I agree with Reddit on this one. You (or anyone else) shouldn't be abusing the chat of a competing service stream to advertise a different one. It is not the place for that and is rude. Please do not give existing Reddit users reason to believe all Lemmy users are rude rule breakers.
ademir 17 points 3 years ago
I am not complaining. I was there to make fun of Spez and I don't care if I was rude. If they think Lemmy users are any different than Reddit users they are delusional. There is all types of users here and there.
DrDickHandler -51 points 3 years ago path: 0 5758998, hotness: undefined, score: -51, children: 4
catsarebadpeople 19 points 3 years ago
Calm down. Just because no one likes you doesn't mean you have to be a dick for no reason
Marsey_Enjoyer 0 points 3 years ago
You're being ableist by forgetting the /s honey
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