100% agree. But we should never try to force things to "one." There should never be just one community for a topic. That's what Reddit is. "This is the videos subreddit, if you don't like it you don't have a choice."

Good communities will rise. Bad communities will fall. Some communities will attract users because they're big and have lots of members. Some communities will attract users because they're small and friendly. Choice is good. Fixating on there only being "one" of anything is bad.

I worked for Microsoft for many years and the fact is many companies' marketing and PR departments think their customers are morons. Or perhaps it's that they think their customers don't mind being treated like morons.

The shit they would send flowing down the pipeline that we were supposed to say to our customers just blew me away. "You know our customers aren't STUPID right? I can't talk to them like they're stupid or they'll escort me off premises."

OP is sharing a very useful tip for people new to the Fediverse. Let's not allow our pedantry to get in the way of what is still a helpful tip please.

Have you noticed how many of us old shits there are in the fediverse? It's a disproportionate number. I think many of us miss the freedom and chaos that the internet once was and are looking to recapture the excitement that the internet lost at least a decade ago.

This may not meet your "keeping for years" criterion but never invest in expensive non-stick pans. Don't go super cheap either, but something basic like T-Fal. Non-stick pans wear out over time ALWAYS. So there's no point buying premium ones.

Get something good enough that it's got a flat base and the coating isn't paper-thin, but beyond that save the big $$$ for cookware that doesn't have a non-stick coating. And when they eventually wear out you won't feel bad tossing them in the trash because that what you'll have to do anyway.

Wait this doesn't add up. The posted screen shot isn't coercive. It's asking if anyone on the mod team is willing to betray their fellow mods. If not, cool. Sounds like there were one or more mods on the /r/piracy team who chose the "betray" thing.

You're not following what I'm getting at. Reddit wants to have plausible deniability so they reach out to mod teams asking them to Judas on their fellow mods. We don't know how many agreed to turn on you -- maybe it was one, maybe it was 51%, maybe it was all of them.

The mods go to Reddit and say "yes we'll work with you to get the subreddit back up. But we don't have access to demod the head mod." Reddit says "say no more, I got u." They demod you, and say "If you have any questions go speak to your fellow mods. WE didn't make the decision, we were asked to demod you by your fellow mods."

Your fellow mods also have the extra perk that they can deny betraying you. "WE didn't demod you, Reddit did! SEE the mod logs!"

Plausible deniability all around.

I've said it before, I don't think posts (or users) should have a number associated to them. It promotes karma whoring. And I don't say that in an accusatory way -- I watch the upvote counts with excitement when I submit a post too. It's just human nature.

If a post was rated "Very unpopular", "Somewhat unpopular", "Neutral", "Somewhat popular" and "Very popular" then you could still identify the hot posts but without engaging the reward/addictive centre of the brain.

Same with users. Don't give them an endlessly growing "karma" number that encourages spamming low quality populist posts. Once they hit "Very popular" there's no more incentive to make submissions purely for the seratonin fix.

*instances

Their own instances.

Yup, I went through all those same stages and am loving the Fediverse. I had forgotten how it felt to have to EXPLORE. To find good content, to see something that's (only mildly) outside my comfort zone, to use a tool that's still a WIP. I spent 15 years on Alien Site and it was just the same jokes, the same content, all the same topics, the endless commercialization of every word you say.

No it's not as easy to find content here. No the apps aren't as polished. But it really feel like how I felt back in the BBS or Slashdot days. I hadn't realized how miserable I was with the current state of the internet until I abandoned all the mainstream sites.

This is mine as well, but it wasn't on PC that impressed me. It was the first time I called Directory Assistance and at no point in the call a human was involved. Until then every demo of voice recognition had been a goofy parlour trick. Voice recognition software was very niche, and only marketed to secretaries for dictation. To suddenly see it in a practical application to completely replace a human interaction blew my mind.

Happy ro ruin your day! :) Have fun!

Happens all the time to me. Kbin is like two months old. It works surprisingly well for how new it is, especially considering the volume that's being driven its way. A few hiccups are only to be expected. I just get back on the bike and start pedaling again.

From reading the screen shots you shared:

"We are reaching out to any moderators currently on the mod team who would be willing to take steps to reopen the community"

and

"If you have any question regarding your removal, you can contact the moderator team for /r/Piracy"

I mean, it's pretty obvious one or more mods rolled on you. I'm sorry I'm not trying to be argumentative with you, it's very shitty and Reddit sucks. We wouldn't be discussing this here if I was a friend of reddit.

It the admins on one server are assholes, they don't have the power to ruin it for everyone.

Exactly. One of the big issues with the r-site. There's only one community for any one topic and there are more users (and content) than they could possibly use. Ever tried posting to /r/ShowerThoughts? It's virtually impossible to come up with a topic that makes it through the filter. And it won't change because deleting 90% of submissions still leaves more than enough content to fill the page. It's easier for mods to just delete content en masse and ban a user than even engage in a conversation with them.

(I'm not picking on the mods on /r/ShowerThoughts, I've never interacted with them. I'm just using the sub as an example where the community is so big that an individual user is just an annoying gnat in the grand scheme of things).

I just go to Discover --> Trending --> [ Today | This Month | This Year ]

Pixelfed is still a relatively small community and you're going to find many of the best people to follow just by looking at trending.

Does it even matter any more? Tooth paste tubes used to be made of metal so if you squeezed from the bottom they would hold their shape and you could roll them up as you used them.

Now they're all made of plastic and as soon as you put them down they expand to their original shape and the tooth paste flows back into the empty areas. The world is just going to absolute shite! :)