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[–] Matshiro@szmer.info 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tbh I am done with reddit as a whole, back then a lot of mods were power tripping, but now most of them are. You can't say anything, do anything, it would be better for them if no one would even visit their communities.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This is completely unsurprising tbh. A lot of the old mods were enthusiasts who grew a community from scratch due to their love for the subject. In the reddit API shutdown, a lot of those mods left in disgust, or were replaced by the reddit admins, or were driven off by the leftover toxic userbase calling them "entitled jannies" or whatever. A lot of the mods who took over their place were just power-hungry users who were chomping at the bit to get the chance to run a big community as their personal fiefdom because they were too toxic to grow one themselves.

This is the inevitable culmination of these events.

Anyway, welcome to lemmy. We become more powerful from every user who writes off reddit forever.

PS: if you see power-trippin' behaviour around these parts, you can always post about it in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use a repost bot to keep up with the Monero reddit but most of the time I find that I'm not interested enough to actually click the link to go to the original post on reddit and so most of the time I just stay here. I deleted my account during the API issues back in June of 2023 and have not had an account since then and do not plan on going back as I really enjoy it here.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't even think you need even a bot for that. Just grab the relevant RSS

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

It's not my bot. It's a bot somebody else created and I just use it.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

To be fair there's lots of power-tripping mods on lemmy as well, often using their colorful interpretations of subjective rules/terms to suppress opinions they don't like.

[–] Matshiro@szmer.info 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that sounds right. Well at least I am happy that I was checking lemmy year ago and now I decided to finally try it.

Also thanks for advice :D