I came here to comment the same thing.

Often times businesses won’t just release CCTV footage to just anyone but if you call the police to report the incident 99% of the time they will give access to the police.

It’s possible that the cameras caught a license plate.

I think this plays a big part in it. Reddit is absolutely massive.

Other than a couple of comments about the policy changes I haven’t posted on Reddit in about a week. I haven’t deleted my account just yet and occasionally have checked in on a couple of subreddits that have reopened and noticed the shear number of comments from accounts saying they don’t care about third party apps or the changes being mad.

It’s a bit mind blowing that all it takes for a lot of redditors to openly support anti-user policy and dictatorial CEOs is losing access to their favorite subreddits for 48hs. The word addiction really is apropos in many cases.

That makes a lot of sense.

If they are getting flooded by users of another instance who simply want to troll and they don’t have an effective way of then it’s hard to blame them for taking the action that they did.

Hopefully the moderation tools get better and the instances can be federated once again. DO you happen to know if moderation tools are currently being worked on by anyone?

I’m hoping that this will calm down a bit in the coming days and weeks and especially after the new Reddit policy goes into effect.

I do agree with you though that we should be focusing on creating unique content that doesn’t involve discussing Reddit.

Instead of checking the same few sites over and over all day, there were so many cool sites that you could buy a monthly magazine with cached webpages on a CD-ROM.

I haven’t thought about in a while but this is completely correct.

I even remember back when so many people had their own websites they created on the free services that popped up. It was amazing perusing all those super simple html webpages dedicated to whatever the creator fancied.

For me, the federated nature of Lemmy hearkens back to those days. It’s all very cool.

Thank you for the explanation.

Sounds like things are working basically as intended. The desires and actions of one community, while having an effect of the Fediverse as a whole, won’t really affect another. In this case the community of Beehaw and the communities of Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

Thanks for the explanation!

For someone new to Lemmy and completely ignorant to the situation is there anywhere I could go and read about what’s happening?

So sure, To be valued by Reddit, you must pay $50 per year - and if you don’t, then you’re not a customer, you’re a commodity. Creators do so because they feel compelled to create and share, Mods do so because they have a personal need to contribute whether they get paid or not.

Reddit will allow you to remove ads for $50 a year but they don’t actually value their users at all. We already knew that of course but it became blatantly obvious during this whole situation.

Reddit provided the servers, the infrastructure, and built functionality to allow communities to form on Reddit and for that they do deserve credit. However, the value from Reddit doesn’t come from commodity servers but rather all the content that the users have contributed over the many years.

Ol’ Spez talks about that content as if it was his, as if Reddit created it. They have zero respect for you whether or pay $50 a year or not.

I prefer the world the way it was before all the consolidation.

Same here.

I remember when individual website forums were the absolute best way to find answers and connect with people of like-minded interests. The system wasn’t perfect but it at least meant that problems from one forum/community would not spill over into another.

Reddit then came along and basically became the forum of forums and replaced a lot of those communities. Having all those communities in a single place did have some benefits. One for example is that it allowed obscure communities to form by the single fact that there were so many communities all gathered in a single place. Unfortunately we all know what happened there.

I’m really hoping the fediverse suceeds and helps us retain a lot of the benefit of a place like Reddit while at the same time shielding the community from a single entity/person exerting control over everything.

We are essentially identical in that respect.

I’m hoping that these communities pick up steam but at the same time I also wouldn’t mind if they stayed just a little under the radar. Once things get too large you start to have problems that were never problems. It’s a fine balance.

I have noticed a huge quality decline on reddit. I hope people get fed up and search for other options.

I have noticed a similar dip over the years but it’s hard to tell if that dip is real or just my experience.

Either way you are looking at someone who got fed up and searched for another option. I created an account today and have only made a handful of comments here but I’m really hoping to stick around a bit.

You make a good point. I’m not convinced that Reddit is going the way of Digg anytime soon but I do think that they will find themselves in a Facebook situation. What I mean by that they will lose a bunch of users/mods in the form of a slow decay as the site gets worse and worse until all that remains is a self-selected echo chamber.

That’s a good point. The parallels between Twitter and Reddit are numerous.