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D’oh, my Lemmy Explorer count is three lower than my sh.itjust.works count. 😔

The obvious fix would be to deny student loans this special treatment.

The student loan industry is built on this exception, so eliminating it will be a big mountain to climb

FOSS

https://i.postimg.cc/4xY36kWJ/shit.gif

Now, I was unaware that this was a unilateral decision, without input from their users, which renders my comment sorta moot.

You’ve changed my mind. Δ

I’m not really seeing it as gatekeeping. It’s a small mod team that woke up this week to a big chunk of reddit knocking on the door.

It strikes me as reasonable to want to pause for a minute and see what the actual new user numbers will look like on the other side of the blackout.

Tangentially it took me absolute years to start reading smh.com.au as “Sydney Morning Herald.com.au” and not “shaking my head.com.au.”

Mainly because the Herald’s news always seems to radiate deep Florida-man energy.

Their announcement doesn’t strike me as all that alarming. I could be mistaken.

It sounds like their mods have watched an unexpected expressway arrive at their door this week, Douglas Adams-style, and so they’re closing the door momentarily to evaluate what the new traffic will look like. Honestly feels reasonable, unless I’m misunderstanding it.

The message seems to be that this isn’t meant to be a permanent change.

As a 12 year reddit user, I assure you the majority of reddit is full of paid spammers and bots. The numbers have been as artificial as Twitter’s for a while.

Upvoted for “hey presto,” that just made my morning

I started (like 2 hours ago) a Poetry community in my instance. I modded a few microscopic subreddits that never got any traffic, so I’m used to imposter syndrome as a moderator 😥

I read the article and I still can’t tell if we like the guy or not. Wikipedia makes it sound like he’s not pro-CCP.