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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They emailed me too. Guess I was a power user, because I wasn't a mod!

I ignored it. It's especially egregious because I'm Canadian, and I think it's for Americans only.

Since they killed third-party apps, I think I've gotten more emails from them than the number of times I've signed in. Haven't even posted a single comment since RIF died.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit is peace, rest in fun.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canadian here as well, and no — we can’t participate. Not that it hasn’t stopped them from contacting me several times anyway.

Unfortunately, even if this IPO crashes and burns the real villains in this story are going to make it out with millions in their pockets.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Canning can be zen — with a bit of practice it’s not that difficult, and it’s often easy to find someone who is willing to help out. I’m often canning with friends or family — and it’s often as easy as throwing the right ingredients into a pot, bringing them to a boil, ladling it into prepared jars, and letting them sit in the pot.

As we built up the community, dealing with the “tide of crap” did get easier for us as moderators — we had a good core community of regular users who would quickly flag things that were dangerous, and with an automod rule to auto-remove posts with 5 such reports meant that we were often able to moderate posts of concern while they were private. But it took work to build up the community to the point where it was self-policing. I’m hoping that resiliency we tried to build up has continued to keep the community safe.

Glad to be here on Lemmy as well. Online discussion boards have been my bread and butter since the grand old BBS days of the mid-80s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They must have an insane definition of power user, because I got one too and I'm absolutely not a power user. Maybe longtime active users got the email as well?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Account age + recent activity might be one threshold, though I didn't get one for my mostly abandoned/much older account.

It might've also been karma, which I had a lot of. But I'll admit that I was probably a "power user" before the API changes, lol