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[General Emílio Médici]

How many users we lost when we went TOR only?

I don't think the farms lost THAT many people. Even the Wogglebug lady figured out how 2 tor to post here.

I think most of the loses the Farms suffered is on how long people might spent on the site, and lurkers who don't have a account and haven't bothered. But that is just my feel on the matter I would need to try and look for actual numbers to be sure. But from my memory fragments the farms had about 1k users at any given time, and now has about 750, and though I am not sure I think most of those loses were in *guests not registered users.

 

[MugolEx]

I mean we paypig null to moderate this shithole so we can call trannies faggots.

Of coarse Null gets donations so he can keep things running, he does all the work and provides a service. Im talking about paying to become a janny.

 

[AssignedEva]

Blaming Apollo and rif is probably a personal scapegoat for their inability to design a website they can monetize. Something I don't think anyone mentioned here that really changes the story is the timelines. It took reddit forever to release their own mobile apps. Not until April 2016! RIF and Apollo were around long before that, they were released first and reddit appreciated that because they had no mobile app. RIF's first version was in 2009! Reddit basically leaned on these apps to grow itself first, because they are and always have been notoriously inept. Basically the single devs behind RIF and Apollo designed better apps than the team at Reddit did, and they did it first, and instead of working with these devs they've decided to price them out of existence for whatever future plans they have that are not clear to us.

The other big one was AlienBlue, which was the most popular reddit client on iOS. Reddit bought it out and then turned it into the official Reddit app (and then proceeded to make it crappier).

Yes, but they're not merely astroturfed by companies the way, say, /r/riotgames is, they are astroturfed by the admins themselves. Just because you don't see the admins listed as moderators of big subs now doesn't mean they aren't there internally, or they didn't grow the sub themselves for a long time from the early days. I think you may be the one naive if you think anything about reddit's large subreddits or front page is entirely organic and user-driven. It's not.

We're talking at crosswinds. I was saying all the big subreddits are already astroturfed by the admins (either directly or via their puppet powermods) and therefore concerns about spez filling all the big subs with mods "pliable to reddit's corporate interests and the activist groups they serve" are redundant because it's already happened. Maybe it's going to be a bit more transparent to the average user once subs are forcibly reopened, but I'm sure most redditors who are on there to look at le funny animal pictures, get updoots and coom wouldn't have it on their radar even if the front paged changed to "we only allow authorised political opinions and things that make us profit" (or possibly would even agree with the sentiment).
About the only meaningful protest that people could do to oppose the proposed changes is boycott reddit entirely - no posting, no commenting, no voting, no commenting, cancel their reddit premium subscriptions if they're that pozzed to have one - but they won't. So when an admin cracks another perma-dark sub, it'll be met with outrage and protest memes... and then that'll fade into the background noise and it will carry on as normal. Spez has his userbase pegged accurately, and even if lots of third party users don't continue using reddit, that'll be a drop in the ocean compared to the revenue boost from people switching over (which I assume is spez's primary concern so he can cash out with the IPO).

 

[doodoocaca]

...And they just accept shit as true because they've been programmed to passively accept information from authoritative-sounding voices that demand moral compliance and shame.

It's also that anything dissenting is buried and deleted, the account shamed into compliance, abandoned, or disappeared.

If you only ever get exposed to one thing, how can you even entertain the notion of alternatives?

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

What is with trannies, Reddit, and 5.7×28mm? It works but the ammo costs a shit ton, you're better served with a 9mm or 38 special if you want really low recoil. Guns on Reddit are so cucked

they arnt interested in practicality, they are interested in "cool" factor. all the games make the 5.7 this cool, awesome, super advance body armor penetrating killer round. i cant count the number of retards i have argued with over this. i have shown them conclusive proof, including videos of people testing it, that the 5.7 FMJ round cannot penetrate body armor. your little 5.7 pistol isnt going to pierce through swat armor anymore than a 9mm will. but these retards still parrot the "penetrates advanced armor" you can even show them the design docs nato had for the round and it was designed to be used against aging decaying soviet body armor made 30 or 40 years ago, not new made western armor. they still dont listen.

in short, the 5.7 is such a pathetic cuck meme round and i will never not make fun of anyone who willingly chooses to use it.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Why would wearing reddit corp gear in public just recently be dangerous? From what I've heard those "alright nazis" everyone goes on about constantly, have, since at least 2016 been dragging around portable ovens just looking for guys like them to pop up and show themselves.

Seeing a fat tranny woth a reddit shirt means someone might take a picture for a cringe compilation. A.k.a . Genocide.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

I'm a little taken aback by the broader kiwi response to this whole thing.

So the psychology is a kind of confusing here: the problem with Reddit is that it's mostly full of niggercattle, which is accurate, but then it's also great when the few elements of the site who aren't niggercattle (edit: or are marginally less so) and break rank with their corporate overlords are stripped of their position and replaced with even more pliable cattle who won't make trouble?

On what fucking planet would people be rooting for Reddit itself, a company so pozzed and globalist that the CCP owns a large stake in it through Tencent (regardless of how they try to spin it as a separate entity), to step on and oust people trying to prevent them from locking off 3rd party API use all so they can sell out even better?

Ultimately it doesn't matter, the company is clearly struggling somewhat financially and they aren't going to balk at a chance to ameliorate that just because it makes the unpaid jannies mad, but I still wish the mods won out, as fruity as the whole thing is I'm still happy to see these absolute weenies actually trying to do something to inconvenience their masters.

reddit is dead, and has been dead for years, it only appears alive because of the maggots moving around and digesting it.

Wasn't it only a couple years ago that some people from some random subreddit initiated that Gamestop short squeeze that was big news and stuck it to a bunch of self-assured stock market vultures who had a meltdown over it?

If it's dead then I don't know why anyone would be emotionally invested in this at all (which a lot of folks seem remarkably so), and if it's not totally dead then I don't see the point in trying to pull its life support aside from just general Twitter-tier maliciousness and wanting to see things people enjoy be destroyed.

I don't really like Reddit, I've never had an account, but anyone should know by now that this kind of shit never improves anything and I wish it wasn't this way.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

they arnt interested in practicality, they are interested in "cool" factor.

This is the crux of the matter really. The 5.7 was and is a pretty cool cartridge but it isn't some be all end all like they make it to be. It was designed to fight a hypothetical VDV invasion of the back lines of NATO that never happened which is why it was made to penetrate "advanced armor" that said commie paratroopers would be using in the 1980's. But they see "advanced armor" and forget context so they think a 2020 kevlar vest meant to take a full 5.56 is gonna get obliterated by their cool pointy pistol round.

It is a microcosm of reddit itself. A circlejerk that gets out of control and literal provable facts are ignored in favor of updoots.

 

[doodoocaca]

Reddit does this to people. Or, put another way, enables it, instead of having them go outside to be called fat so they fix their shit.

Fucking shit.

 

[Markass the Worst]

So the psychology is a kind of confusing here: the problem with Reddit is that it's mostly full of niggercattle, which is accurate, but then it's also great when the few elements of the site who aren't niggercattle (edit: or are marginally less so) and break rank with their corporate overlords are stripped of their position and replaced with even more pliable cattle who won't make trouble?

On what fucking planet would people be rooting for Reddit itself, a company so pozzed and globalist that the CCP owns a large stake in it through Tencent (regardless of how they try to spin it as a separate entity), to step on and oust people trying to prevent them from locking off 3rd party API use all so they can sell out even better?

I'm not rooting for Reddit. I'm not rooting for the niggercattle either. As I've said before this is just cow on cow violence to me.

It's great that there are some niggercattle willing to break rank and attempting to stick the middle finger to their masters. Unfortunately, it's far too little, far too late. They've had several warning signs for almost a decade that hey, maybe the people in charge of this site don't have your best interests in mind and maybe only tolerate you because you're a useful idiot, until you aren't anymore. They ignored all those signs anyway because "Reddit is a private company, it can do what it wants" and "I don't want to defend those evil Nazi chuds at r/The_Donald."

They were the ones who kept saying Reddit is a private company and didn't care one bit about maybe regulating huge sites like Reddit as a common carrier. And now the private company has come back to bite them in the ass, hard. So is it unfortunate? Yes. Do I really care about either side? No, I hope they both lose.

I'm just here to laugh at both of them.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

On what fucking planet would people be rooting for Reddit itself, a company so pozzed and globalist that the CCP owns a large stake in it through Tencent

imo, on the planet where it seems globohomo is inevitable/unstoppable, it's a least a little fun to watch it fuck some of its loyal parishioners.

 

[std::string]

Again, that's already been the case on reddit for some time. Noticeably reddit does also have its fair share of shills going the other way (I recall a bunch of pro-Brexit bots switching to being pro-Trump and repeating the same lines) but there's an awful lot of consensus making on any sort of political-adjacent sub.

It's just a weird effect of the way Reddit is designed. Upvote is agree. Downvote is disagree. Report is a super downvote. It builds echo chambers incredibly fast.

/r/libertarian did an entire "well maybe fascism is good" speedrun in the span of about two months.

 

[Coccxys]

Can we just enjoy the meltdown without the autistic "deep thoughts" on who would be the better "victor" in all of this.

Look at it this way.

Jannies get ousted - mods and chronic reditors squeal impotently and we laugh, reddit continues on as before with its 95% normie user base.

Spez gets ousted - no mod tears to laugh at, no seething, reddit carries on as before.

Either way in a year's time reddit will be exactly how it is now and no one will even remember the API thing. The only outcome that is different is if we get to laugh at crying mods losing their only power and possibly doing a flip or not. I'm hoping for the we get to laugh option.

Just accept that there is no redeeming reddit, that reddit isn't going away anytime soon, and even if it did your favourite web 1.0 20 active user forum isn't coming back.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Can we just enjoy the meltdown without the autistic "deep thoughts" on who would be the better "victor" in all of this.

Look at it this way.

Jannies get ousted - mods and chronic reditors squeeze impotently and we laugh, reddit continues on as before with its 95% normie user base.

Spez gets ousted - no mod tears to laugh at, no seething, reddit carries on as before.

Either way in a year's time reddit will be exactly how it is now and no one will even remember the API thing. The only outcome that is different is if we get to laugh at crying mods losing their only power and possibly doing a flip or not. I'm hoping for the we get to laugh option.

Just accept that there is no redeeming reddit, that reddit isn't going away anytime soon, and even if it did your favourite web 1.0 20 active user forum isn't coming back.

Well, I think the problem here is that people have a problem with the idea of "reddit continues on as before with its 95% normie user base" and would much rather prefer 2) because it does more severe damage to reddit's bottom line long-term because it's also a public relations issue, and Reddit has been very good about avoiding negative publicity... until now.

 

[WelperHelper99]

they arnt interested in practicality, they are interested in "cool" factor. all the games make the 5.7 this cool, awesome, super advance body armor penetrating killer round. i cant count the number of retards i have argued with over this. i have shown them conclusive proof, including videos of people testing it, that the 5.7 FMJ round cannot penetrate body armor. your little 5.7 pistol isnt going to pierce through swat armor anymore than a 9mm will. but these retards still parrot the "penetrates advanced armor" you can even show them the design docs nato had for the round and it was designed to be used against aging decaying soviet body armor made 30 or 40 years ago, not new made western armor. they still dont listen.

in short, the 5.7 is such a pathetic cuck meme round and i will never not make fun of anyone who willingly chooses to use it.

This is why I tell faggots to shut up about my 38 special. Your fancy cool Kirito (yes it showed up in Sword Art Online) FN Five Seven isn't going through a level 3 hard plate, neither is mine, but at least mine can be carried in a pocket and the ammo doesn't bleed my wallet dry. It was a interesting concept, but anything available to the Civvie market is wasted against armor. Trannies and redditors don't see this, don't look up velocities or core construction, they just see it in a Vidya and want one.

 

[Opposite of a Winner]

They ignored all those signs anyway because "Reddit is a private company, it can do what it wants" and "I don't want to defend those evil Nazi chuds at r/The_Donald."

They were the ones who kept saying Reddit is a private company and didn't care one bit about maybe regulating huge sites like Reddit as a common carrier. And now the private company has come back to bite them in the ass, hard. So is it unfortunate? Yes. Do I really care about either side? No, I hope they both lose.

I'm just here to laugh at both of them.

I remembered seeing that private company bullshit claim being spewed everywhere (Not just from Reddit, saw it a few times on twitter and other sites I can't quite remember) and it's a little satisfying to see the same faggots praising companies for doing shitty stuff because "they're a private company" have it turned against them now.

I'm hoping some users can break away from reddit but even that I'm kind of doubting since that blackout "protest" only showed that these users can't live without reddit for more than 2 days and seeing redditors migrate to other subreddits kind of prove that as well. So the next best thing is seeing 24/7 power mod faggots on suicide watch from having their power stripped away.

 

[AnOminous]

Reddit's monetization efforts have been fairly laughable.

That's partly because their userbase is worse than worthless subhuman losers who actively sabotage any attempt to make money. They deserve it because they've all but driven off all the sane people in favor of pedophiles and piss bottle men and crazy cat ladies.

Be careful cheering too much when the admins take the subs from mods still protesting; that's exactly what spez wants. He wants moderators in place that are pliable to reddit's corporate interests and the activists groups they serve.

Why not? I don't care who suffers so long as someone suffers, and reddit mods suffering and reeeing is music to my ears. I literally could not care less than I do about reddit or what happens to it.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

That's partly because their userbase is worse than worthless subhuman losers who actively sabotage any attempt to make money. They deserve it because they've all but driven off all the sane people in favor of pedophiles and piss bottle men and crazy cat ladies.

Why not? I don't care who suffers so long as someone suffers, and reddit mods suffering and reeeing is music to my ears. I literally could not care less than I do about reddit or what happens to it.

You should because reddit is a major influence in the opinions of young people.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

they arnt interested in practicality, they are interested in "cool" factor. all the games make the 5.7 this cool, awesome, super advance body armor penetrating killer round. i cant count the number of retards i have argued with over this. i have shown them conclusive proof, including videos of people testing it, that the 5.7 FMJ round cannot penetrate body armor. your little 5.7 pistol isnt going to pierce through swat armor anymore than a 9mm will. but these retards still parrot the "penetrates advanced armor" you can even show them the design docs nato had for the round and it was designed to be used against aging decaying soviet body armor made 30 or 40 years ago, not new made western armor. they still dont listen.

in short, the 5.7 is such a pathetic cuck meme round and i will never not make fun of anyone who willingly chooses to use it.

Not only that, the actual AP* rounds are generally illegal for civilians to own.

*For a certain value of AP.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

How many users we lost when we went TOR only?

Tbh, that's the best thing to happen. Filter out the normies who have no desire to stick with us through thick n thin. The people here posting now are the real ones for being here in the sludge when the chips are down.