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  • /u/spez is the effective reason.

    Reddit was great for me, back in 2008, but over the years slowly got more and more “normy”/less technical, more drama, more celebrities, the new UI, letting in the Digg refugees, not keeping old.reddit.com somewhat up-to-date while forcing me to use the new UI for certain pages, letting users get banned from subreddit A because they ever posted on subreddit B, with the API bullshittery as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Oh, and the MASSIVE amount of shadow-banning/deletion that happens. You have NO idea how many comments get removed, just from your own account. Check out https://www.reveddit.com/ for evidence.

    I slowly deleted 9 of my 10 accounts (one of them was combine_policeman, which I used to tell a user to “pick up that can, hehehehe”), kept my last one, until I made a flippant comment about whether Americans were going to burn down a city, because Mrs Good got killed (because, you know, people burned down their own city after George Floyd), which I said because I know white Americans don’t care about their own. Individualism for thee, but not for me, and all that.

    Anway, felt offended about the warning (and deleted comment), so I deleted my account that night. Fuck 'em.

    I already had done a request-for-data, which I used to delete my thousands upon thousands of comments from the site. Because fuck 'em!

    Lemmy/programming.dev feels so much more like 2008 Reddit, it’s insane. There are more communists here, than 2008 Reddit, but they had a bunch of Libertarians, so it evens out, lmao.















  • I think they’re just uncomfortable with the word “master”

    1 person over at Microsoft complained, and they moved mountains for this person to replace master with main. It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.

    and that seems completely reasonable to me

    No it doesn’t. Why does an entire industry need to flip over, because of a single person? Like the ability of changing the master branch for yourself should have been enough. Changing the default over on Github to strong-arm the rest of the world is disgusting behaviour. Which is why I’m sticking to master wherever I can.

    especially when they’re people from a group which has been subjected to slavery.

    That is literally every group… Every group has been slaves (and slavers) at some point in time. That’s not a good argument.