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are we going to have a Lemmy Party July 1st to welcome all the new users? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmybrucelee@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's gonna be wild...

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[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I anticipate multiple waves to come over the next few years, as Reddit implements common strategies ahead of, or after, its IPO; including:

Removing old reddit from the platform
Forcing users to provide a phone number for account verification, ending all anonymity among alts
Blocking anonymous browsing for all but the most mainstream subs or perhaps just r/popular

It's all about the slow boil.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. A lot of what the protests did was embolden Spez. He basically thinks he can do whatever he wants now, but the expression "the straw that broke the camel's back" applies here. He's gonna keep making unpopular decisions that eventually make the site unusable for even the casual user.