It is a religious thing. I grew up fundamentalist Baptist and then softened up into the Evangelical world before leaving Christianity behind, and this was very common for both parents to use to get reports and see if their children were looking at porn and for men who had gotten caught or admitted to struggling with porn or cheating to have another man as an “accountability partner” and give access to his internet history through this program.

The software came up during the Josh Duggar trial because his wife had put it on his computer before either his cheating or his other inclinations became public knowledge.

It’ll just get lost in the mail

I was wondering if someone was going to create a good fundiesnark community and if there would be enough interest here to keep it up.

I lurked more than posted on those communities because I’ve seen how toxic they can easily become and was turned away by some of the drama or when the snark started focusing on personal characteristics but, having been raised fundamentalist, there were also a lot of really relatable threads where others would share similar experiences (and the snark communities were always much more active than the survivor/former communities).

I think some people did take it too far, which seems to be a problem with a lot of social justice oriented communities, in particular people who are not part of a marginalized group making decisions to ban or otherwise censure your people on behalf of that group (I’ve seen it on both Reddit and Facebook in relation to trans and autistic people specifically).

That said, a lot of “polite disagreements” on Reddit really are/were transphobic, and even many questions were just bait to set the stage for anti-trans rhetoric, so I can see why it was easier for mods to come down heavy-handed.

The whole trend of “You are autobanned from subreddit X because you replied to a front page post from subreddit Y” did get extremely annoying though.

Maybe I’ve been around too long but it seems like a decade or more ago the average Reddit user would be exactly the type of person who would migrate to Lemmy in the face of something like this.

I know Reddit has gotten much larger and it seems like it’s got a lot more generic over time but do you really feel like the user base as a whole has changed enough that This move won’t impact the feel of the site as a whole, as well as their bottom line?

cummy

…or not

I think quite a few may, simply because it’s what they are used to. But with the clients so many people use for Reddit losing access and old Reddit possibly disappearing as well, for many of us there’s not really going to be the same Reddit to go back to.

It’s pretty simple. Reddit as a company seems to have been on a path for years where they have done everything they possibly can to make the site more corporate at the expense of Reddit as a community.

I’ve been on Reddit for years (I deleted at least two accounts before sticking with my now 14-year-old account). To put it in context, my Reddit account is older than my child, who has his own Reddit account.

There were a lot of things on Reddit that I found annoying but it was easy to ignore. I was saddened by the way they fired Victoria and unfairly blamed it on Ellen Pao, and the effects of those decision s including the noticeable degradation in quality and corpoatization of AMA posts.

I also hated how blatant advertising and astroturfing kept showing up more and more and did not like the way practically everything turned into politics and divisiveness in a more recent era.

But again, most of that was pretty easy to avoid and I could just stick to my little niche subreddits that I liked, ignore the rest of the content, and view the site and a format I like because I could use a third party app. I never really cared for new Reddit and especially hated the official Reddit app, and with that being gone and ads and chat being forced on me, I’m done with it.

Winks

First time and first comment.

I almost created a Mastodon account when Twitter changed hands but I was pretty much gone from Twitter at that time so I didn’t bother.
The different instances and how you can have a different sub on multiple ones is really confusing me.