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Unbelievable. Are they actively trying to get as many people as possible to leave their platform all together?
Seems like it’s a race to become the most hated platform. Twitter started a bit earlier, but Reddit is catching up really well.
Facebook's far worse than either of them, but as far as the Most Hated title goes, it will be fun (and grim) to see who wins that race. Although, I feel like Spez is simply selling out, and Elon is truly, more overtly, an evil fuckwit; who will keep screwing his platform out of spite far longer than Spez his out of greed. Spez played one of the last cards he could, I think.
Yes, this exactly. Ole spez is blinded by the impending IPO and those dollar signs are blocking anything else in his mind. At this point I think he would drive Reddit into the ground just to try and get a payday. For Reddit to survive he needs to resign.
I'm not discounting the possibility that spez himself is also evil — he's certainly done enough shady shit. He was once a mod of r/jailbait, after all, and he (or Reddit staff) had given one of the sub's founders a "Pimp Daddy" badge.
Holy shit! I did not know that!
Reddit will survive. Boycotts don't work anymore because people can never organize enough to beat out the massive reach of entrenched monopolies anymore.
The sad part about this whole reddit story, is that it will probably lose a lot of niche communities and quality content, and keep low-effort memes and the same ask me anythings over and over again, but with people watching ads and them making money. I hope the people that create/want quality content move on to better sites instead of just giving up.
Next thing they will add is subway surfer and text to speech, with ads in between. That's probably their dream scenario.