My first post on lemmy! RIP Reddit and fuck you Pez.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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The disrespect that the average person gets from corporations these days is fucking unbelievable. This current thing with reddit is something especially BS. ALL of the work in the various subreddits were done by the community, supported by third-party apps ALSO built by the community.
The alt-right is having a great time right now on Reddit. Tons of their posts from r/conservative on the front page.
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Well at least they'll be more "profitable" with so many less users coming to the site and using third party apps.
Glad I've found Lemmy.
I'm sticking with lemmy then
Captain of the Titanic: "we're sticking to our course, despite the iceberg being dead ahead"
Funny thing if they had done that and the iceberg hit frontally like the engineers planned for it would probably not have sunken the ship.
What the engineers didn't foresee was an iceberg strafing the side and cutting open too many sections for the ship to stay afloat.
Then my friend is truly dead.
Oh, I fucking hate CEO's.
Fuck spez
I can see subs being dark becoming a permanent thing, hopefully coders update reddit to html updater or similar tools to pull from archived zsv files.
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I don't need reddit. Reddit doesn't generate content, nor does it prevent contributors from sharing the same content on other platforms.
What is reddit doing to win me back?
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I never expected them to change their mind, they know what they want and they know what sort of people they want on their platform and frankly it is not us.
Plenty of people including me are very glad about being pushed in a more fedi direction, and genuinely enjoy it here. Probably most of those people are older like me and feel very much at home with a bit of jank, with Mastodon's topic-based following system, etc etc. Because that's what the internet was like when we were first exploring it. We will 100% stick around.
For younger or less techy people though, the only thing that really gets them to use services is how easy it is. And that's fine too. We can have our own corner of the internet here to be dorks in, and they can have their own corner over there, and we can all still be friends just...you know...from a distance.
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Is anyone surprised? The "blackout" seems to have been a total flop most subs don't give a shit.
Not surprised, still disappointed. Will discuss with other mods the idea of nuking our community as a "fuck you" to Reddit.
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The blackout helped me to leave.
It's difficult to rewire a dopamine pathway you've been traveling for 14 years.
Knowing that other people care enough to abstain for two days is useful in that process.
I never expected Reddit to change their policy. I have been surprised at how petulant, dishonest and unprofessional they've been. I would have expected a bland corporate response.
Anyway, onward and upward.
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7750/8300 subreddits are blacked out. Plus the server issues caused by the blackout yesterday. Iโd be interested to see if an indefinite strike could be powerful enough to reverse this plan
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It's going to be an uphill battle and maybe even a siege. It's going to mean these sub-reddits are going to have to be dark for the foreseeable future if they want to make it painful for Spez and team.
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Shame they killed it like this, but fuck 'm! First comment on Lemmy ๐