Perhaps “we” (users in general) could be a bit more strategic with this. Reddit admins have a noticeable disdain for the smaller subs there, and yet they are [were?] what shaped Reddit the most, and made it fun. They are bound to have some grievances with Reddit; and even if the Fediverse is rather small, here they’d have some room for growth that they wouldn’t with the competition of larger subs.

Mods had power because they were united and reddit couldn’t replace all of them at once. Instead, they picked them off one by one.

My guess is that they decided that the little fictitious power that they had over their communities was worth dealing with an obnoxious administration, that outright belittles them as “landed gentry”. As such, they never actually planned any sort of migration out of Reddit, and instead rationalised their decision to stay there as “we’re thinking on the users”.

Friendly reminder for everyone here - not just the poster above - that the topic of this community is Reddit. There’s lots of leeway for off-topic, but this sort of discussion about instances and geopolitics is bound to create unnecessary conflict here.

kbin.social could be an option, and thankfully I have an account there. I’m not doing it by votes but by the overall “feel” of the community.

Note that I’m happy moderating a community about Reddit (even if myself don’t give a damn about it any more), as long as people retrieve some value from it, and I can do so from a good instance.

Thank you. I’ll consider it.

Do you have other accounts with more activity, specially in this community?

If I close down this comm, I’ll do it as you said - disable posting, but keep the content here. One of the roles of this comm was to document the downfall of Reddit, so it doesn’t make sense to delete it.

Without going too much into details: I strongly disagree with a few recent decisions of the instance admins, regarding another instance and a community within lemmy.ml, to the point that I feel uncomfortable moderating a community here. As such I’m asking the community here for a few options, on what you guys think that I should do with our comm - get new mods, migrate the comm, close it down, something else?

I wish that I could be more explicit on this, but talking about the issue in the open might lead to administrative actions, dunno.

Another important detail is that Digg v4 pissed off most of the userbase, so the impact was pretty much immediate. Reddit APIcalypse pissed off only power users instead; the impact will only come off later (sadly likely past IPO).

No, but simply looking for something and then remembering that it doesn’t exist makes me feel stupid.

Dunno in Brazil as a whole but at least in my city, school uniforms are default. They’re simply taken for granted, not a “conservative vs. liberal” matter. Each school picks its own, but it usually boils down to a shirt, baggy pants, and a jacket (most schools cut you some slack on really cold days to swap it with a warmer one).

Glacial = anhydrous. People call it this way because pure acetic acid has a rather high freezing point (16°C), and it looks a lot like plain ice when frozen. (It still stinks vinegar once you open the bottle though.) But once you add even a bit of water, the freezing point drops considerably, so acetic acid solutions don’t show the same “ice”.

So in colder days, you need to rewarm it back into a liquid. Then people get really sloppy (I know it not just from that professor’s anecdote, but from watching it). They say “I’m just rewarming it, and it’s just acetic acid, what could go wrong?”. Well, it’s still a big flask of a corrosive, volatile, and flammable substance.

In the meantime, the same people doing dangerous reactions like nitration (it literally explodes if you let it get too hot - spreading nitric acid, sulphuric acid, and some carcinogenic solvent) “miraculously” pay full attention, obsessively taking care of the temperature of the ice bath.

Part of the advice that I mentioned in that comment chain is that - smaller dangers are still dangers, do not underestimate them.

Long story short: someone else’s advice ITT reminded me a uni professor talking about a student hurting themself with glacial acetic acid. That reminded me how often I’m using alcohol vinegar for cleaning (alcohol vinegar is basically one part of glacial acetic acid for 24 parts of water), but I don’t see people doing it often - instead they often buy expensive cleaning agents that they use everywhere as “magical” solutions.

Most “rules of thumb” become awful advice when used indiscriminately.

People assign slightly different meanings to the same words. You need to acknowledge this to understand what they say.

Words also change meaning depending on the context.

When you still don’t get what someone else said, it’s often more useful to think that you’re lacking a key piece of info than to assume that the other person does.

Hell is paved with good intentions. This piece of advice is popular, but still not heard enough.

Related to the above: if someone in your life is consistently rushing towards conclusions, based on little to no information, minimise the impact of that person in your life.

Have at least one recipe using leftovers of other recipes. It’ll reduce waste.

Alcohol vinegar is bland, boring, and awful for cooking. But it’s a great cleaning agent.

Identify what you need to keep vs. throw away. Don’t “default” this indiscriminately, analyse it on a per case basis.

The world does not revolve around your belly button and nature won’t “magically” change because of your feelings.

You can cultivate herbs in a backyard. No backyard? Flower pots. No flower pots? Old margarine pot. (Check which herbs grow well where you live.)

It’s Latin and it says we must all die

There’s no “must”: it states for a fact that you’re to die, not that you should/need/must.

A rough translation would be “remember that you’ll die”, or “remember that you are to die” (keeping the infinitive). Or even “remember death”, it’s close enough in spirit.

fons: egomet, latine loquor.

I usually twist this into “memento mori, quoque uiuere” (remember [that you’ll] die, also [that you’ll] live).

Like, not trying to become worm food full of regrets is nice and dandy, but remember that you’ll suffer the consequences of a few of your actions while you’re still alive.

Another from chemistry: “small dangers are still dangers, don’t underestimate them”.

This was in my first uni. The person saying that mentioned how he never saw students harming themselves with cyanide, nitration solutions (sulphuric+nitric - highly corrosive and explosive) or the likes. No, it was always with dumb shit like glacial acetic acid skin burns, or a solvent catching fire.

Not common in general usage nowadays. Perhaps it avoided the shift?

But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work)

Swap “subscription” for “multiple small transactions” and you have the new gold system. So Reddit is already doing what you (and me, and everyone else) was predicting them to, we just didn’t know “how”.

It’ll likely fail hard though, at least in the long run. For similar reasons as Digg failed.