Daily random thread: Gotta get down on Friday edition (June 16, 2023)
Daily random thread: Gotta get down on Friday edition (June 16, 2023)
It’s Friday, the day before the weekend and there will be some Sun!
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Ok I’m just gonna say it. Ok I’ll just whisper… I miss reddit, this doesn’t feel the same. Strangely, I also feel ghosted? Melbourne reddit gone without a trace. The other city subs are back, but Melbourne still in lockdown (and there wasn’t even a press conference.) It is a good space here, but I don’t know I am nostalgic I guess.
The DT is a like grassroots digital community that shows respect and kindness to each other that other subreddits could only dream about. With a new moderator that is known and quite frankly kicking arse so far. and we don’t need to provide reddits CEO with more money through advertising dollars when we are literally on the ground floor of something new and exciting here.
We can build this place however we want.
The DT which is now here is one the best places on the internet. It's really like an old internet forum before facebook and instagram took over everyone's ability to write sentences to each other. To just wax lyrical / rant in a somewhat anonymous fashion with people you associate with casually but seriously enough to not treat them with anything but respect, at least most of the time. I agree, reddit didn't give a crap about our little corner of their site.
How could Dan Andrews do this to us?
I'll loudly agree, it felt so sudden and the locking of the whole sub at 4pm that day was frankly a little shitty.
i have no trouble with the locking itself but there should've been a few more days of warning
That's what I mean, just didn't use enough or the correct words. Lol. It was shitty to lock it at 4pm in the same day as the announcement and not allow people to post in the thread or the sub for those few hours before it closed.
we didn't even get to post lockdown memes about it!!
I lost the daily journal of moving back to the city and updates of my transition. There aren't many publlished diaries of later years people transitioning and they're important for people to read as mine has been so largely positive it could literally save someone's life by giving them hope. I was going to one day edit it into a wonderful fucking story of looking inward finding yourself and being true to it and that someone else could see how it turned my whole perspective away from pessimism. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but no one had any idea the r/melbourne was basically going to be deleted. I wish they'd explained that going private meant we lost all our comments. I should have been storing it, but fuck, I could have easily copied into it a word doc in less than an hour.
oh yeah you're probably one of the people who is affected the most. i'm sorry. I wonder if maybe they could give you temporary mod access so you could retrieve the log.
I messaged them but I haven't heard anything back as yet. I can understand the mods needed a break though, so i live in hope they'll re-open for a while so we can access it. I have to take some responsibility for it though, I could have very easily been keeping my own copy.
there's always the feeling that what's on the internet lasts forever but these couple of years especially this event really shows me how things we put online can be all gone in a matter of hours. Can't even find who we have been talking to for years unless we've private messaged each other.
I live in hope that the olds mods are lurking here. I'm pretty sad about it honestly but I have to accept that yeah, nothing is guaranteed. More forewarning would have been easy and I was online all day. I'd taken the time to message some users but didn't think for a second i might lose my writing
I miss the group too. I don't have many friends irl
This is how I feel tbh the DT is and has been my friends when I felt my most isolated.
I lurked often, commented here and there and posted infrequently, (I was u/Positive_Complaint) but I feel a bit upset how quickly it was done and with no discussion. It helped my introverted self feel connected and part of something bigger. It kept me informed and sane during the lockdowns.
my phone screentime is way down though so i guess that's good
I wish mine was down, I just compensate with other apps. Haha.
I do wonder how much longer this shit fight is going to go on for.
Yeah, I get it too. Will I last here, not sure.