It’s not my work, I don’t want to (and don’t have much of a right to) meddle with it. If I even thought of updating it to my tastes, I’d do everything differently, far from changing just one word. Art can’t be updated.

The interesting part is, to me, how a few details do seem not at all outdated, despite many others being grating.

I must admit, now I understand even more clearly why the author deleted all of her work off the internet…

The comic was pretty popular back in the day, the minimal empty style had its charm, and worked well with the themes.

I suspect the comic’s notion of “nerd” is just outdated. Or off the mark. Either way, the actual criticisms don’t apply to what we call nerds, but to something else, others have pointed out the better word would be tech bros.

I’m kind of repeating myself, but the comic is pretty old (before 2014), and I think the culture and words’ meanings have shifted a bit in the meantime.

The comic is from >10 years ago (ran 2007‐2014).

I do find the reactions interesting, including the negative. The comics by this author were pretty popular, running from 2007 to 2014, but today they do strike an odd note in some regards (as I already anticipated in my description; perhaps that’s why the author nuked her site). Techbro wasn’t a term at the time yet, so ‘nerd’ it was. And I do have the impression nerdiness was more consumerist at the time…

It’s not my comic, see the description, it’s a decade old.

Well it’s a tweet, probably not worth reading anyway.

Yeah, but let’s not kid ourselves, overall the internet hasn’t exactly enlightened the general population.

Umm actually we also had Lemon party. But plebs like you probably haven’t heard of it.

and possibly xenophobia

Bruh what

The Latin name Claudius, which is where the French name Claude comes from, originally was an adjective meaning ‘limping, lame’. I guess it might be related to claudo ‘to close’ as well, but the usage of the name was primarily inspired by the carrier (including the Roman emperor) having a limp.

I googled the guy and this was the first image of him:

I guess he really is an expert on this topic :D

based on the classic

usually

No, quite the contrary.

Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter… have paid moderators. That’s a small number of massive social media sites. Forums, including their descendants in the form of reddit and Lemmy, and IRC chatrooms with their descendants in Discord and Telegram channels, are primarily user-moderated (with paid admins intervening in more complex situations when needed). Even Facebook offers groups that function like this. Number-wise the latter sites are way more numerous (but with a smaller userbase), and historically older (if it’s not too pretentious to speak of the history of the internet). They are the default. So my point is that reddit didn’t offload the work, because nobody (especially in the early years) thought that it was reddit’s work in the first place, it’s just providing a large playground and you do the rest.

The traumatising part of moderation is dealing with child porn and similar, which is not much of an issue on traditional forums and chatrooms, and tbh I don’t think it is on reddit either. The worst the traditional mods deal with is harassment if they come across some aggressive loony.

Idk, I used to moderate two (rather tame) subforums, it was kind of like picking up trash from the ground and throwing it in the bin – not super pleasant by itself, but satisfaction came from knowing that the place is a bit better off than before.

Moderation of pretty much all traditional forums is done by volunteers, a practice that naturally extended to reddit and Lemmy. Perhaps it’s even more logical in the reddit format, since it’s the users who create and take responsibility for their subreddit, rather than having a centralised “government” deciding how to organise and moderate the place.

Wikipedia’s content is also 99% volunteer-made and volunteer-moderated.

They’re taking our memes!

He seems mentally perfectly healthy. Weird is not unhealthy!

Oh, no need to remind me, I’m not even a former but a current redditor. I just find the idea of the little reddit alien being a pest funny. Maybe precisely because I’m still on the site…

Truly a cursed way to underline a word, is there no better way to do it on Lemmy?

This here is an excellent guide: