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Skavau

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  • Reddit lets you hide your post history yet Google search shows it all.(+ Extra methods to reveal users posts and comments)

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  • That's because google is scraping comment threads, not user profiles.

    But in any case? Good. Reddit allowing people to hide public profiles is bad. It has made it easier to troll, to astrotrurf and abuse people on there.

  • Reddit’s CEO says r/popular sucks, and it’s going away, also Reddit is limiting the amount of popular subreddits a person can moderate

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  • It is, and I keep banging on about this whenever the topic is mentioned but Reddits current preparation timescale for the changes here are interesting. This isn’t going to be implemented until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

    A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

    People whine about terminally online moderators being power-hungry and garbage, but I can assure you hastily promoted randoms given the keys are far worse in most cases.

  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • But on Reddit it’s just as easy to make your own new sub with a different name.

    Depends on the subreddit. Many topics have what would be-called natural names that people naturally look for. Suppose you don't like how r/television is ran. What are you gunna do? Make your own? What you gunna call it? r/tv-shows? Maybe (but that's also already taken). r/television2? r/bettertelevision?

    Also, how are you gunna effectively advertise it? Reddit is way too big for a new small communtiy in most cases, unless it directly sources from another large community.

    You see the uphill problem here?

  • Consolidating communities into super communities

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  • @wjs018@piefed.social See!? SEE?!

    Lol, I've specifically directly bought this up in conversations about this. Don't worry. I don't think the auto-subscribing to all the communities in a topic is a good idea.

    So what a new user is presented with are topics, not feeds. The only difference is that topics are handled at the instance level - by site admins - and have more visibility and populate the "Related Communities" feed. Where-as feeds are the same thing, but user-made. Click here to see them.

  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • In this situation I specifically mean instances designed for other people to use. Not private-use instances like yours. Although if your instance (ie: you) behaved badly enough, and notably so - you'd just end up getting defederated.

  • Consolidating communities into super communities

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  • You can make feeds containing specific communities on piefed that would combine all like-for-like communities.

  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • That is indeed true. Only issue I can see is the copycat community might not outgrow the older community. And I think people tend to gravitate towards the larger community if there are multiples of them.

    Thankfully the Fediverse designates community size by active users per week/month/etc when you look them up. Piefed specifically does this. You can't even see the overall subscribers in the community browser. So this levels the playing field somewhat.

  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • Yes, that is the benefit of federation, but the downside is that if a user is forcibly removed from participation in a community they liked, it won’t really matter that they created a new one if they can’t tell the users in the old community to migrate.

    Well this is true - on an individual user level. But I am talking about a situation where a mod team (or even just 1 moderator) is so bad, so hated that enough of the userbase for that community get fed up - they could just make their own and use tools like !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to advertise what they're doing (this does work).

    Obviously if it's just you aggrieved with how a community is run, you'll find it much harder. But that's true anywhere.

    Speaking as a moderator (even though I don’t really do much on a low traffic community), if a mod bans specific users because they don’t like those users, that’s an abuse of power. But that abuse of power will largely go unchecked because it isn’t big enough of a problem for most users to take issue with, usually.

    Oh absolutely, and it's not realistic to expect administrators of medium to high level instances to micro-manage and oversee all moderator decisions within their instance. But I imagine if you lost the plot on your !cars@lemmy.world community and started banning people for frivolous infractions, you'd be credibly replaced by a competing community in relative short-order and I would imagine its more likely that the lemmy admins would remove you eventually.

  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • Power tripping on the fediverse is mitigated by various factors though:

    1. Public modlogs (as you said).
    2. Federated structure meaning a deranged moderator team can find themselves replaced by a copycat community on another instance if they're bad enough.

    And perhaps I'm a bit naive here, but I'd like to think that no respectable instance admins on the fediverse would allow the brazen behaviour of the r/art team. They'd have long been removed.

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  • This is entirely down to the instances and how they administer the moderators on their communities. The big difference is that if such a thing happened on the fediverse, if it's really bad, members of the community could recreate it on another instance and take the userbase.

    Ie if the moderators of art@lemmy.world lost the plot, it could be remade on art@lemmy.zip. That doesn't work so well on reddit because "art", the natural name is taken.

  • New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

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  • Reddit only intervened and bought in new mods because the previous moderator team ragequit and locked the subreddit.

  • What TV series essentially became unwatchable to you after one decision by the writers?

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  • There have been some good adaptations though, even ones that did their own thing - like Foundation.

  • What TV series essentially became unwatchable to you after one decision by the writers?

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  • I feel like you're way overthinking that scene. There were a few hint that Gaius wanted to hook up with Starbuck before that scene in the episodes preceding (if I recall) - remember, the fleet at this point think he's weird and charming. They don't know his backstory.

    Then they hook up and that's it. It's over. They never hook up again. The purpose really wasn't meant to shock the audience at all.

  • What TV series essentially became unwatchable to you after one decision by the writers?

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  • Well

    I wouldn't really describe Gaius as a villain as such overall - at least not a traditional villain, but it wasn't meant to be shocking. If I recall she said "Lee" during her hook-up with him - it was to indicate she wasn't over Lee.

  • What TV series essentially became unwatchable to you after one decision by the writers?

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  • Are you referring to when

    Starbuck slept with Gaius?

  • Where can you report users for a site-wide ban?

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  • Spamming it everywhere.

  • Banned for "Propaganda"

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  • Are you of the opinion the situation in Palestine is remotely equivalent to that of Northern Ireland?

    And you did not answer my question. What do the people of Northern Ireland want?

  • Banned for "Propaganda"

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  • Can you show me an example of a pro-USA/NATO/Taiwan activist or commentators or journalist who operates openly from Beijing please?

    How are LGBT rights in China too?

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    Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much’ Not Returning For Season 2 At Netflix: “Part Of The Job Is Knowing When To Park It”

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    Gen Z Is Huge. Their TV Shows Are Tiny. And Hollywood Is Panicking

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    And So It Begins: Paramount, Netflix And Comcast Formally Submit Bids For Warner Bros. Discovery

    deadline.com /2025/11/paramount-netflix-comcast-submit-wbd-bids-1236625396/
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    The Acolyte’s Creator Says YouTubers Now Shape Star Wars More Than the Movies

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    Vince Gilligan’s ‘Pluribus’ Sets Record For Biggest Apple TV Drama Series Launch

    deadline.com /2025/11/pluribus-launch-ratings-apple-tv-drama-series-record-1236625239/
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    Very Important People Season 3 Trailer - Dropout Exclusive Series

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    George Clooney Is “Welcome” To Join HBO Max’s ‘The Pitt’

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    DC Studios’ ‘Lanterns’ Pushed to End of Summer 2026 at HBO

    www.thewrap.com /lanterns-hbo-premiere-summer-2026/
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    HBO Has “Had Conversations” About Rescuing ‘Poker Face,’ Casey Bloys Says

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /tv/tv-news/poker-face-hbo-move-conversations-casey-bloys-1236432244/
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    ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of Series Premiere

    variety.com /2025/tv/news/knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-renewed-season-2-1236586402/
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    ‘House of the Dragon’ Renewed for Season 4

    variety.com /2025/tv/news/house-of-the-dragon-renewed-season-4-1236586486/
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    ‘Task’ Renewed for Second Season at HBO

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /tv/tv-news/task-mark-ruffalo-renewed-season-2-hbo-1236432106/
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    Tim Robinson’s ‘The Chair Company’ Renewed for Season 2 at HBO

    variety.com /2025/tv/news/the-chair-company-renewed-season-2-hbo-1236586351/
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    What are you watching and what do you recommend this week?

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    Peep Show stars confirmed for a very special Great British Bake Off episode celebrating sitcom

    www.radiotimes.com /tv/entertainment/great-british-bake-off-peep-show-christmas-special-newsupdate/
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    Friends Spinoff Joey Releases 8 'New' Episodes Online — Nearly 20 Years Later

    www.tvline.com /2031368/friends-spinoff-joey-unaired-episodes-streaming-youtube/
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    Lee Pace on ‘The Running Man’ and the Thought of ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ in 2025

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /movies/movie-features/lee-pace-talks-the-running-man-1236430443/
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    ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Showrunner Dave Erickson Sues AMC Over Unpaid Profits

    variety.com /2025/tv/news/fear-the-walking-dead-dave-erickson-amc-lawsuit-1236586110/
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    Bryan Fuller Gives Update on ‘Hannibal’ Season 4; “Everbody Wants to Return”

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    David Fincher's American 'Squid Game' Spin-Off Makes New Progress in Massive Update

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