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I will say, that while I like Lemmy (despite its bugs and all that), it severely lacks stupid GIFs and videos, from interestingasfuck, damnthatsinteresting, PublicFreakout, aww, etc.

Maybe that'll come, but I doubt it.

You think many steps ahead, nice. Others should consider this as well.

Manually deleting posts leads to them reinstating them (I think they set it up botstyle to reinstate posts from subs where mods have been warned). Editing your posts to directing to Lemmy instances leads you to being given a warning, your post being reinstated from earlier versions and then you're kicked off of your own sub and get a shadow ban alternatively 7 day lockout.

Off-topic, but I love ntfy! It's super easy to use to send notifications from a script or program anywhere

I'm not going to delete my reddit account, but I don't mind if they do it themselves either.

What is the fediverse home for ntfy?

Not subscribed but I use ntfy, and WTF that's the dev sub, he should do whatever he wants

I have a feeling they're cracking down on personal subreddits due to their own loophole in the upcoming change to NSFW content. If I interpreted everything correctly, Mods still get to see the full range of NSFW content, meaning seeing NSFW content even in subs that they aren't a Mod in, whereas regular Reddit users are restricted.

In any case, I find it ironic that they talk about the duty of being a Moderator with such importance, and yet Mods aren't even paid, AND... it's quite a common thing that many subs have wildly corrupt Mods. I've no joke been PERMANENTLY banned from certain subs for criticizing a movie, a recent episode in a TV show, etc, and I wasn't even a member of the sub for more than 24 hours. Like, ok, maybe I'm being a bit more harsh in my criticism than others, but when did it become a crime to have an opinion?

Expect a sudden, violent, implosion.

I cannot exclude the possibility that the recent increase in bot accounts on some instances is somewhat linked to such already engaged subterfuges. I mean, the time frame is way too coincidental.

Idk if reddit will actually "die"

I think it depends on us users. If we can make a community work here in the federated space well enough to draw users then reddit might really go away.

But if they manage to kill off 3rd party devs, APIs and etc quickly before these alternatives are baked enough to work for their users and these existing federated tools aren't good enough -- then they'll just maintain via the network effect.

This is the flailing desperation of a dying animal

I guarantee they did the math and the site will continue. Sure, a small percentage will leave. But they know from user metrics the vast majority of users will remain. They can find mods who will fall in line.

2000 employees but none of them thought to go dig up last month's backup and run a diff on the current state. Or alternately they don't have usable backups from last month.

I can believe it, at this point.

Spambots or girls trying to sell their onlyfans

You know, the weird part is? I got two followers, and one of them was a guy I messaged earlier when asking if he'd post his content elsewhere. (I mentioned lemmy as an option) Well, the profile was different - instead of being "XXX YYY", the one that followed me was "Alternate YYY", so I assumed it was an alt. He didn't message me back on the old nor this account, and when I tried to visit it said "this account name doesn't exist". He keeps posting and is probably neutral about this whole thing, but it's just, odd why he'd use an alt right then and then delete it or have it banned (maybe he promoted lemmy or protested on it, idk, I brought up lemmy in a post title on a smaller sub but it got banned by "the mods of r/sub". My account is fine tho)