Reddit Migration

I, much like basically everyone here, have been avoiding Reddit when possible, and the content here just doesn't hit the same. My fried dopamine receptors were certainly screaming for stimulation early on but now I feel an urge to touch grass and breathe fresh air. What is this? Am I dying? I still hate the angry lightbulb in the sky.

In all seriousness though, I'll admit that I was kind of addicted to Reddit and now I don't want to go near it. Maybe this will turn a new leaf for me. If not here, I'll probably find some other way to satiate my dopamine receptors through more productive means.

I love sync, so I hope he gets to it!

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dy74b/boycotting_advertisers_has_forced_changes_at

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It seems obvious at this point that Reddit and their CEO do not care about how we feel. They’ve doubled down, tripled down, and quadrupled down.

I think there’s only one recourse remaining: Tell Reddit’s advertisers we will not be buying their products or services as long as they’re providing financial support to Reddit.

I’ve compiled a list of the advertisers I see the most frequently, and included their contact information when I could find it. Sometimes it’s email addresses, sometimes it’s contact forms. Sometimes their customer service is intentionally obscured, and I wasn’t able to locate anything.

Here’s what I’d suggest — write a brief message along these lines:

Hello, I’ve noticed your company advertises regularly on Reddit. As you may be aware, Reddit has suddenly decided to change its business practices, charging exorbitant amounts to app developers, which will have wide-reaching consequences for many, including those with disabilities.

There was no attempt to even give developers an opportunity to switch to a paid system, or to implement your ads into their apps.

Furthermore, Reddit’s CEO has been extremely dishonest through this process, insulting both app developers and the users who provide 100 percent of the content and moderation to their site.

I will not be using your products or services as long as you continue to provide financial support to Reddit.

Please feel free to add to, or change the list of advertisers and contact information.

Now, I’m sure many will be pessimistic about this, but keep in mind that advertiser boycotts had massive impacts on Fox News in the past. They’re directly or indirectly led to changes with hosts like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson; there’s a reason the advertisers for some of their top shows tend to be companies like My Pillow.

THE LIST

Best Buy: https://www.bestbuy.com/contact-us?contactOption=other

Microsoft: https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-advertising-support

Max Rewards: support@maxrewards.com

Samsung: https://contactus.samsung.com/customer/contactus/formmail/mail/MailQuestionGeneralNew.jsp?PROD_ID=G303850&siteId=591

Apple: tcook@apple.com

Amazon: primary@amazon.com

Raid: https://contact.scjbrands.com/en-us

Nationwide: https://www.nationwide.com/personal/contact/online-form?language=en

US Army:

Cinemark: https://www.cinemark.com/about-cinemark/contact-us

Turo: https://turo.pissedconsumer.com/sendEmail.html?group=Customer%20Service

Toyota: https://support.toyota.com/s/questions-comments?language=en_US

Orbit: https://www.orbitgum.com/contact-help

Kellogg’s: https://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/contact-us.html

Brilliant Earth: https://www.brilliantearth.com/contact/

Logitech:

The article is here; here are the Introduction and the start of Part I: Current approaches to content moderation generally assume...

Would anyone be willing to point me into the direction of some of the basics of setting up a kbin instance? I run a reddit community called Flairwars and I think having an instance on something like kbin would be a very good replacement solution.

#RedditMigration

Sub.Rehab lists relocated Subreddits' new homes in the Fediverse and on other platforms

Yes, I know browser bookmarks exist. But there must be some native functionality that I keep just not noticing - right?

Linked it on Reddit so you people can spread the word more easily. Direct link to the guide is https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy

What Does Federation Exactly mean?

hi guys, so I have migrated from reddit, I'm just confused what federation means exactly. what happens when I turn federation off in Kbin?

#RedditMigration

oh i think i reposted, OC is here https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59559/Removed-as-moderator-of-r-Celebrities-after-14-years

I asked this question which says it has 3 replies but it only has a single reply by the automoderator.

Just wanted to list a website that’s keeping track of some alternatives being made per subreddit.

https://sub.rehab

It will also help if you can set as many threads to nsfw as possible.

If Reddit is restoring deleted posts and comments, could they be in violation of GDPR if OP was from the EU?

#RedditMigration

Reddit is exploding in the most ridiculous way.

Top post is OP asking for upvotes in exchange for buttholes. Second post is OP delivering.

I keep seeing communities on lemmy writing in their bio "not official" or in some way deferring to the reddit community. I also see them writing that they're willing to give up their community to the reddit mods if they ask. It's like the whole place has imposter syndrome.

We're the adults, guys.

We're here. This is our community now. We broke up with that site, and we are making a new one. Run your community the way you think it should be run. Their communities are not any more official than ours. This is our place, not theirs.

We're the adults. We're the mods. We're the community.

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I just popped in to /r to see what's up and - lawdy! - that is a shit-show.

#RedditMigration

Had anyone else completely forgotten about the time u/spez got caught editing user comments?

#RedditMigration

Starting 2 or 3 days ago I started getting daily summary emails from Reddit of activities in my subscribed subreddits. Did anybody else start getting these all of a sudden? Did I trigger something with inactivity re-engagement or something?

#RedditMigration

Can't have my tasty coffee becoming bitter due to the massive Reddit logo contaminating the drink, you know.

Reddit mods get a badge, a coffee mug and a blanket. The blanket is now getting destroyed by my cats.

I wonder where I can get a Lemmy mug made...

Can I just rant a little to you all?

I've tried numerous times to help people from reddit set up an account and get started on Kbin (and lemmy), but 4 out of 5 times people can't seem to grasp the concept of registering an account and starting to use this platform. Even breaking it down into 2 steps, with direct links... They get angry, and then ragequit their attempt in a huff saying how it's too fucking complicated and it will never take off because it's so hard.

Ok, I get that the fediverse is complicated if you think deeply about all the interconnectivity and federation etc, but there is no reason you even have to think about any of it to create an account and get started. Like, at all.

It reminds me so much of my 70/y old mother-in-law not immediately knowing how to work a tv remote and shoving it at me after 1.5 seconds saying "here, I can't figure this out". When in reality all she had to do was press the fucking big red button...

I'm just so frustrated with people's complete lack of ability to help themselves.