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  • The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

    And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.

    All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.

    And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.








  • Loccy@feddit.uktoUKCasual@lemmy.worldHow do you pronounce "scone"?
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    1 year ago

    But I am common as muck. I haven’t met an H I haven’t dropped and I’m proper Bermondsey and Millwall. And it’s a “skone”. In fact the only people who call it a “skon” in my experience in deepest darkest Saaaaaaaf Laaaaaaandaaan are posh cnuts.

    Spock has a cat. Your argument is invalid.







  • Loccy@feddit.uktoUKCasual@lemmy.world1000 subscribers!
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    Maybe we should be a bit more, well, casual?

    I occasionally got frustrated with how trigger happy the mods over at the Place That Shall Not Be Named were on CasualUK. Posts that promoted some fun discussion and were upvoted after the first couple of minutes of them going up were still deleted and deemed as “moaning” or “low effort”.

    Perhaps a clearer definition of “low effort” might be “it took you 10 seconds and everyone ignored it”, and rather than a ban against moaning, perhaps we might ban “boring moaning”. If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.

    Just my 2p’s worth.






  • I’m a bit more cynical, given the circumstances. When I read Red Reader was getting an exception I checked it out and, as a general purpose Reddit app for Android, I found it clunky in comparison to apps like Infinity and Boost. I wonder if that was the actual rationale, i.e. choose an app that’s not as appealing an alternative to the official app so that you can cite it as justification that you are listening to app developers who “do it right” with respect to open source, accessibility etc.