I haven’t gone back since Apollo shut down, and not planning to, but I am curious.

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    I love the sound and view of a good trashfire, so I sometimes go look and see how hard it’s burning.

    So /r/madlads Mods did what madlads do: They made everyone a moderator just like /r/politicalhumor did from the beginning of the protest. I brought the idea up to the /r/pics mod just to let them know. Would be funny as hell.

    Postwise, Bots started reposting content from 2-3 years ago, ChatGPT was spotted multiple times as a replying user and smaller subs returned to normal, but are slowly drowning in spambot posts or switched to approval-only due to the failing tools.

    EDIT: A major antispambot on reddit closes down today by unbanning EVERY SINGLE SPAMBOT on reddit. Did I mention that I love watching things burn down?

    To me it feels like the whole ordeal shook reddit quite a bit and made maybe the top 10% of the users drop out of the bucket this way, going to the Fediverse (flavors: lemmy, kbin, mastodon) as far as I can tell right now. Tildes and squabbles got some users, too, but IMHO those seem to be not doing well so far.

    • @Angelus1727
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      Jesus that’s hilarious! Make everyone a mod, I’d love to see that spread.

    • @Mudkipology
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      They didn’t unban all spam bots, they just aren’t adding any more to the ban list.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      181 year ago

      Good stuff. Trashfires are nice. I first looked at tildes, but invitations were nowhere to be found. Glad I checked out Lemmy mext, I’m really having a great time.

      • @samus12345
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        81 year ago

        I apparently have 10 tildes invitation codes from 5 years ago when I tried it out. If anyone wants them, send a DM. Personally, I find it too restrictive there as they want everything serious - no jokes. Lemmy is more my speed.

      • @lagomorphlecture
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        You have to send an email for a Tildes invitation if you don’t personally know someone on there. It took me like 5 days to get the return email and it did go to spam. You can PM me if you still want an invite or go here for the site and sign up info.

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      61 year ago

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    • @catwhowalksbyhimself
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      Turning everyone into mods is a horrible idea, because reddit will hand over ownership of any sub doing any kind of protests to the first mod that contacts them and asks for it. At least one sub was taken over because of that by a person who had basically no clue about what they were doing.

      It’s dangerous and just asking for Reddit to take over.