Blackout curtains, melatonin, whatever you can to control your sleep and block out noise and light are a must. The ice cream man can be your enemy. Stock up on emergency 5 hour energies, I like to have soylent in reserve too because sometimes food and shit won’t be available.

I won’t lie, night shift strained many of my relationships. It took quite a bit from me. But it can give back too. Things like audiobooks and videogames replaced drinking at bars with friends. Have solo hobbies prepared.

There’s a temptation to become diurnal on weekends that will work against you.

Also, you have to be firm about your schedule with people. They don’t consider night shifts in their plans, so you want to make sure you let people know often what can or can’t work with your sleep cycle.

Not really, but I had already habituated myself to nuking accounts and deleting posts routinely long before now. I regret Reddit became what it is, not disconnecting from that.

Yeah, Reddit, like so many other websites, seems to have gotten into its head the idea that it wants to recreate the 90s AOL experience, but not in the fun way.

Nsfw is also dead on mobile web. And just a reminder that nsfw isn’t just porn, it’s also cannabis and vape content, and likely other content that touched “sensitive” subjects.

Honestly like, the dude you’re responding too is referencing BBSes and using the web before tabs. If a user like that is expressing some confusion, disorientation, or irritation, you should regard it the way you might your grandfather critiquing your home. He could be cantankerous, but he probably does have some insight stemming from decades of experience. NTOG and I have been on opposite sides of almost every thread I’ve encountered them in but it’s pretty clear they know their way around message boards, so if something is confusing them it might be a bit confusing yet.

Just to say, I 100 percent would pull RIF up in downtime but doomscrolling is not ubiquitous; I would pop into really specific communities to read about specific interests and shit that didn’t expose me to current events. I am an extremely politically plugged-in person, despite avoiding it almost entirely on reddit (unless I was in the mood), but I found shit like RIF actually allowed me to be more selective about what content I want at any given time. That kind of fine-tuned control of my information intake, of course, is completely lost on New Reddit with its barrage of random recommendations.

Reading it on mobile so not seeing anything wrong here, just black background and white text, like I’ve always liked.

I burned accounts frequently so karma didn’t matter, except in terms of meeting posting thresholds. Upvotes/downvotes mattered to me because they were “feedback” for what I said. Other poster’s karma mainly mattered to me when trying to sus out if someone was an alt/bot/troll account.

I think the dirty secret is that social media is both an incredibly vital part of people’s lives and businesses, but it’s free and ad revenue doesn’t really make anyone the crazy profits their valuations suggest it should. That it’s happening all at once is I think partly attributable to financial tightening – higher interest rates mean people have less patience with money they’ve floated, partly that Twitter going weird gave everyone else cover to do the same, and my personal opinion, the Writer’s Strike gives a little room for the companies to do dumb shit without having to worry about getting roasted on late night.

Fuck u/spez

Honestly as an early user of Facebook, Reddit, etc., we shouldn’t forget that when people first came to these services, they were the smaller, cleaner, more text-based alternatives to bigger corporate bullshit. Myspace was busy, bloated, Malware prone, Facebook was light and organized. Digg became super corporatized overnight, Reddit was clean and simple. Once early users are on that shit when it’s good, their friends follow, and eventually communities form and it’s very, very difficult if you care about a community to abandon it for an alternative. Websites aren’t just “websites,” they’re people, and just like tech companies eventually always put profits over people, people put people over software. They’ll put up with a lot of shit to stay on touch woth the people they loved.

Fuck spez.

I uninstalled RIF. For old time’s sake I fell asleep last night browsing many year old threads on r/tolkienfans. Truly relaxing, ad, clutter free, just text, just reading. I hate the idea of a world without that.

Maybe an actual FAQ would be good – people during fractious times have a tendency to catastrophize and create misinformation.

Spez mistakes being cynical and greedy with “maturing,” as is typical of the cynical and greedy.

Is this like when they let AOL onto Usenet

Damn, ordinarily I’d follow this coverage at r/anime_titties

Jay Peters has been fantastic in his reporting on this, and generally stuck to observable facts. That Reddit is now being a bitch to him just further cements my impression of their leadership. They cannot even handle their own actions being described.

I assume the desired goal of the John Oliver thing is getting John Oliver’s attention.

Opening RIF is, unfortunately, a muscle memory for me. For these next 7 days when it’s still open, I’ll probably be on there on occasion, although the subs I’m subscribed to anymore are either closed, or they’re ModCoord & SaveThirdPartyApp. I’ve unfollowed subs that re-opened, and frankly, I was never subscribed to much beyond specific communities I liked to begin with. The “statistically insignificant” millions of users on Apollo, RIF, etc. (last I counted RIF had 5 million downloads on the app store to Reddit’s 100 million – that 5 percent so talked about is not a small number.) My post histories are deleted, all my accounts but one are deleted, I’m now just there to see the end, and see the drama with my own eyes (and part of that, for me, is that I don’t wholly trust what I don’t see myself, either.)

That the daily traffic is at “normal” levels, to me, is interesting, because we’re not in a “normal” news cycle right now. With Trump indictments, the sub implosion, a new Marvel show, new Final Fantasy games, a potential Biden impeachment, and reddit’s implosion as a news story itself, Reddit ought to be booming right now, not “normal”. That there are incredible surges of people in subreddits participating in reddit drama should be a warning sign, the way a Fogo De Chao ought to be worried when two dozen PETA people sit down at each table.