I accumulate lots of knowledge to counteract my lack of self-confidence.
Bold of you to assume they even went to business school.
All the big wigs I’ve met were “self-made millionaires” -meaning assholes that used, manipulated and fucked over enough people to reach their current positions.
Also, tax evasion.
It’s infuriatingly stupid. It makes me read the same sentence 2-3 times before I understand what they’re trying to say.
We have a well established and clear distinction between ‘streaming service’ and ‘streamer’, why fuck with it?
What’s more, it’s double stupid because now both ‘streamer’ and ‘streaming service’ means “a company” AND we don’t have a word for individuals streaming on the web.
*gestures vaguely at everything*
Bingo.
Few years ago I was invited to mod a small but growing community.
About a year later the sub founder (and other mods) just gradually disappeared.
When I brought this up, the top mod (a month later and without warning) removed everyone and asked to DM him if we wanted to continue being mods.
Every single person re-applied, but the inactivity continued.
When I looked at their profile, it turned out they were moderating dozens of subs, and according to the moderation log, I was the only one who actually performed any mod actions in the last 6 months.
This was when I took my leave.
Again, we’re talking about a small ~20k community.
I can’t even imagine the kind of clout chasing that goes around in large subs.
The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.
Yeah, about that…
Let’s see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.
I really hope you’re right because I love this place right now. It’s much smaller than other platforms but there’s enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.
Outside of the fedi, I don’t remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.
Just last week someone retorted to me with “I’ve been using the official app for 2 years and I’m happy”.
I’m still not sure whether I was talking to an AI…
Pretty much this.
I was asked to help mod a new community, and things were going pretty well for a year or so, but then the sub owner and the other mods gradually disappeared until it was just me and another guy left.
Well, turns out they were moderating/owning 30+ subs on average. We both quit that day.
I just can’t understand what kind of ego boost they get out of being useless cunts in 30 places. How can such little power be so tantalizing to some people?