And I bet those power mods are frothing at the mouth at the idea of having more power.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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So weird to spend all day working for Reddit for free just so Spez can make more money. Itβs one thing to mod one or two communities, but anything else is like a full time job.
It made sense under the framework that they were your communities and reddit was just the host, but now that everyone knows that to be a lie you'd have to be ridiculously self hating to continue to do that for free
I think they are absolutely 100% getting kickbacks in some forms. Not necessarily monetary. My basis is that years ago when I was very active in my corners of the internet I got tons of stuff just for knowing the right people. I was far from any sort of power mod. Reddit power mod is much higher profile. So there's no way they aren't getting benefits.
Another thing is I've been on reddit since early on. I lurked a community that was a few hundred subscribers. Today it is over a hundred thousand. I know the familiar usernames and the little cliques of their inner circles. Over the years there have been a few promotional giveaways on the subreddit. Coincidentally the familiar usernames won the prizes. It was rigged. Had to be.
Maybe most reddit mods work for free. The mod of that random little subreddit? Probably working for free. The power users though? There's no doubt in my mind they've been getting compensations. The power users want reddit to continue succeeding to their benefit (whatever it maybe) as much as reddit needs them to keep working.
Most do literally nothing for the vast majority of subs they mod.
Sometimes even just one is a massive chore, depending how large/brigaded it is.
Don't sweat the small stuff. It's dead. Let it go.
You're posting "so what, who cares" on a community specifically dedicated to watching the reddit implosion. What do you think would be more appropriate content for this community?
(If your answer is "nothing, let it go" then maybe you should block the community instead of what's tantamount to complaining that it exists?)
It is not dead, it's still moving! Oh wait it's because insects are carrying its body.
I hope that guy enjoys the 3 years of Reddit Premium he has left....
Don't worry. Reddit will find a way to ban him for "violating the code of conduct" and shorten those three years to just three months.
lol reddit, forgot about that place.
What if new mods volunteers go continuously rogue after being assigned to the job?
It will be fun to look at. Free drama without screen writer.
I've been called a power mod more than a few times, I promise they don't want me. π
Instance-neutral link:
[email protected]/post/233339
That doesn't work with posts or comments, as each instance assigns a different number.
I wonder how much work it would be to make that a hash and make it so that itβs the same across instances
I could see a system being both easy, and hard to implement; Without thinking about it too much, it'd require a hash table filled with every single already-used key that is always perfectly synced with every other instance regardless of each instance's chosen federated instances.
Best bet might be to just have a non-linear, randomly chosen, hash with a fixed key-length backed by a very large keyspace. This could effectively defeat the need for perfect syncing due to a greatly decreased chance of collision over short periods of time (statistically covering any minute-or-two long desyncs).
They could just go with UUIDs. Assuming all servers choose actually random UUIDs, the probability of a collision is astronomically low. Even if a server tries to maliciously "claim" UUIDs, that server could be defederated from, and the number of UUIDs it'd be able to eat is similarly tiny in comparison.
Yeah, I mean the goal would be to link the IDs across all instances. Rather than having different numbers and running a calculation into a table that links the IDs, you could just have a table, or better yet just have the same ID.
The issue probably lies in creation of new IDs. Different instances may have to be allocated a block of IDs, so that they can create new IDs without conflicting with any other instance.
If youvwant that you'd be using public key cryptography and having the user hold a private key
The idea behind UUIDs is that there are so many (128 bits) that you don't need to worry about allocating blocks or anything. Each post gets a random UUID, that's its ID, and it's propagated along with the post so other instances can reuse that UUID.
If each instance can have a unique prefix then there's zero chance of collision.
XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
If those first 8 are the prefix that's room for over 4.2 billion unique instances, which is more than half the population of the whole planet. Do you think there'll be that many?
Not necessarily. A hash of the body/url+timestamp would always point to the same place, and could be calculated on the fly.
So every comment and post would have a calculation and entry into a table, and this would be done by every instance every time one instance creates a new comment or post? That sounds like a massive unnecessary overhead.
Just use the same ID across all instances. Hell, they could just do https://inst.ance/post/[email protected]
This is redundant but is better than the uuid thing, even though it's redundant.
I love how your use of the word redundant demonstrated redundancy.
I still think a table and extra processing is wasteful and uneccesary. Rather, instances should just do what they do with communities and users.
The host instance decides the number. Remote instances use that number followed by @instance. This already fits in with the federated model, as posts are always on the community's local instance originally, and comments are always on the user's local instance originally.
If you're on lemmy.one and reply to a post in a community in lemmy.world, that post should be lemmy.world's number @lemmy.world, then your comment should be lemmy.one's number @lemmy.one, rather than each instance picking its own sequential number for both.
This kind of thing would probably be the easiest change to implement while requiring minimal server overhead.
For a specific example, to me, this post is https://lemm.ee/post/1726780. In the original, federated instance, the post is https://lemmy.ml/post/2308622. Instead, it should appear to me as https://lemm.ee/post/[email protected].
Your comment, to me, is https://lemm.ee/comment/1409174. The federated link is https://lemmy.one/comment/1393053. This is the link you see, and should continue to see, but I should see https://lemm.ee/comment/[email protected].
Using the instance in the numbering scheme means each federated host instance manages its own numbering while ensuring there will never be a clash between instances. https://lemm.ee/comment/[email protected] and https://lemm.ee/comment/1393053 would refer to two completely different comments. This information is already being transmitted in the process of federation, so it's just a matter of tagging the data when it's received.
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