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RIF was definitely better, but it also allowed for ad blocking. Reddit yanked the API so that it could force people to see ads.

When I first worked in schools 24 years ago, ALL the UK kids used it as a diss. They were too young to really understand what they were saying. Maybe Reddit has banned using 'gay' as a diss?

I remember in middle school, it was a small group of the “cool” “bad” boys who’d look for any small opportunity to use it to insult other boys … like “that’s gay” or “you’re gay”. They were also the group that really strictly imitated Kid Rock and Eminem. I think Reddit has basically the same rule for each sub to keep things inclusive and respectful … so people are quick to downvote any comment that has an abusive language tone, or to report it to the moderators.

It was girls and boys at the school I worked at.

yeah there *was* also a small group of cool but ‘mean’ girls at my middle school… I think they used disses a lot less though. For them it was more like ignoring people and treating them like they’re invisible (social ostracism) vs. being really friendly and approving with others. And it would be coordinated with the previously mentioned cool boy group.

we have NIP-72 communities, but only a couple apps support these communities and the communities themselves are not fully implemented or half baked. it's not a true good attempt to replace Reddit.

I'll have to take a look, then. I forgot NIP-72 existed.

most people do 😟

Well, at least I use @npub1048q...x3nf, which might support 72. Then again, Highlighter doesn't work for me for some reason, so I went with the former in order to write reads for Nostr (and Primal in particular).

Lemmy is small, but more or less a clone of the old Reddit (as far as I understand it). As an old school Reddit user I am pretty disgusted by what it’s become. I remember moving away from Digg to Reddit after Digg was ruined by commercialism, now I feel the same way about Reddit - but it’s much harder to find alternatives these days because of the sheer scale/user base of these platforms.

Lemmy is essentially the Mastadon of Reddit, and it's CENTRALIZED faking being decentralized.

I don’t know too much about it to be honest… but isn’t Reddit also super centralized, but also monetized/corporatized? I guess I’m just interested in supporting any sort of non-monetized version. I would love something decentralized, but that doesn’t seem to exist (in any way that is accessible to the amount of people that would also make it useful).

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