By default, everyone’s a guy on the internet unless stated otherwise. Some people just know the name and that they’re a powermod and not much else. Also, they’re apparently trans or claims to be, so there’s a subset of people who’d misgender them on purpose.
Of course they’re claiming responsibility for the John Oliver thing. Considering their history, I doubt it. But even if they were involved, it’s the community at large that was responsible for the John Oliverification of Reddit.
Unlikely, considering they didn’t try to clear up the confusion and that they continued replying as if they were LJ Dawson.
Specifically, it’s the Easylist - Notifications filter that seems to do it for Reddit.
This is not the real Sync dev, it’s someone pretending to be him. The real account for LJ Dawson is @ljdawson. He confirmed that via his Reddit account. The community he established for the Sync for Lemmy app is @syncforlemmy.
Yeah, the post history is dubious. I’ll wait for confirmation from his Reddit account, because at least I know that’s actually LJ.
Edit: This is not LJ Dawson, this is an impersonator. The real account is @ljdawson, and he created the community for the new Sync app at @syncforlemmy.
Still holding out hope that it will be platform-agnostic enough to be used for both of the Fediverse link aggregators: Lemmy and Kbin.
Not yet released, but a closed beta is coming soon at https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp.
The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he’s not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.
It temporarily boosts activity, but that’s useless activity. It’s not going to help Reddit in the long run, and in fact will diminish Reddit’s value if it goes on long enough.
The writers’ strike is still a thing, so who knows when the next episode will be. But hopefully they cover this when they come back.
Ah. So basically China’s Social Credit system, but for Reddit.
And when you do it, make sure you stare at them unblinkingly to assert dominance.
Congratulations, you’re pregnan’t!
Then you’re going to love this quote by Steve Huffman (spez) from a Q&A he did with GQ Magazine:
I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticise Reddit is that we weren’t a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it’d be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way.
That quote was from April 2023; it’s not even that old.
Could be a repost? I haven’t checked the community to be sure, but I know I’ve seen that same news link posted all over the place.
The simple fact that untreated rabies is almost 100% fatal means that the vaccine is worth it. Not many diseases are almost 100% fatal, and at least this one’s preventable if caught.