My God. This is world changing. This is amazing.
vaprz
joined 1 year ago
I'm guessing the latter. They had been lobbying me hard the last few days and I had made it clear I was not changing my stance.
The irony is out of all the subs that have switched to NSFW in the last few days, this was one in which the most popular posts are actually NSFW.
C'est la vie.
Yes, that was my post as we actually had a survey concerning NSFW content going on and the community agreed that they wanted to continue to see NSFW content.
So I did take that opportunity to change the sub to 18+ and that very well could have been trigger that got me removed.
A very good read and quite prescient.
Also, eff spez!
That was my only departing comment in the, "Why are you deleting your account" box.
That sounds like a very good idea. The work must carry on!
Interesting.
I came into this not having formed an opinion, but after reading their proudly linked founding manifesto and viewing some of the comments of the devs, including making light of the Ethnocide of Uyghurs, I'm quite sure they are the very definition of tankies.
That aside, as long as Lemmy the software is open source and people can freely choose with whom to federate, I don't see it being an issue.
I don't know why spezzit removed the ability to see visible downvotes. It was an instructive part of the core experience for many years. Today, if you see a comment at -5 you think people must hate it, but in the old days that comment would show up as say 50 / 55 and it would be clear it was a controversial comment rather than wholly reviled. Removing downvotes, removes contextual nuance of the group reaction, which accelerates more downvoting leading to groupthink rather than conversations.
Avoid reddit. Don't provide engagment.