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A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse (lemmy.ml)
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A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service

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[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see it too, but does he seriously? I used to go on reddit a lot, but never followed the personalities very closely

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i dont think so, but he did edit peoples comments so they agreed with what spez believes

and reddit used to have a running joke of mods and admins being nazis, which the admins also joked about but that was a decade ago

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are a fair few mods who are genuinely installed by the admins to be fascists, and if any of the other mods complain they get kicked out. Also I have yet to see a single instance of people joking that they're nazis where they didn't end up actually just being nazis.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's famous for having said that he's looking forward to the zombie apocalypse because it would let him live his fantasy of being a slaver.

There was also a hate subreddit where the mods all had a collective turn of heart and decided to shut down, but then reddit stepped in, reestablished the place, cleared house and then installed a new set of mods so that the subreddit could keep running. Yeah, that happened.