Technology

Gee, that's too bad. It would be a real shame if that piece of human garbage Steve Huffman lost everything. A crying shame.

Hey fam, I’m another Reddit refugee. I heard Lemmy is what Reddit was back in the day. Sad to see Reddit go to hell.

I left Reddit today. I'm not looking back. I'm absolutely done with these organizations that bow to fascist whimsy and demands. Pathetic stuff from Steve and the admins at Reddit. I hope their stock tanks and they lose their ass.

I feel like I have simpler reasons for leaving Reddit.

The third party apps quit working and the site and app run like shit and take forever to load.

Simple problems, simple solutions.

They’ve banned all of the good people that made up the site. I used to do Secret Santa. For 10 years! And I had mothers thank me for making their kids holidays. And they banned me. Because I made a death joke about how old McConnell was. Dude looks like death walking. Prove me wrong.

I was a good user. Dark humor isn’t hurting anyone. Reddit will die. Just like every other popular site.

It's always been ridiculous to me that what is essentially a forum has shareholders. That's why I left Reddit during the app debacle and haven't looked back.

• Removing the messages option and instead replacing it with their stupid DM chat system, even for modmail

• Stating that later this year they're going to introduce walled off paid sub-reddit

• That live stream nonsense they had a couple of years back

• Their A.I. answers integration

• Censoring users who mention 'eat the rich' and the name Luigi

• No longer allowing moderators of their own sub-reddit to change a sub's status to NSFW (after the protests, obv), now requires admin to do this for them if the deem it appropriate

...who'd have guessed that these decisions were shit. Not the community who told them each time, again and again, right?

Fuck you, Reddit

Once a company becomes publicly traded it always gets worse. Once the shareholders are closer to the executive compensation packages than the customers/users it is all downhill. It is like clockwork.

Might take a year, might take 10, but the result is inevitable.

at this point Elon should buy it too, drive it to ground like Twitter.

I'm not sure why anyone would ever buy Reddit stock. There is no money to be made in Reddit. They failed to make any money before they went public, and they're failing to make any money now.

They tried the whole NFT thing, failed. They're trying to sell the data to AI companies but once that's sold they can't sell any more of it because the benefit of Reddit data was historical data unpolluted by AI, but new Reddit data is polluted by ChatGPT posts and is therefore worth less.

It's not even about banning people, it's about the fact that Reddit was never a sustainable business model from the start, at least not in the traditional capitalist sense where you're actively trying to make a profit to please shareholders.

The only benefit to owning Reddit stock is if you have voting shares and can manipulate the algorithm to benefit you in some way. Suppress some voices, amplify others to back what you want to do etc. but you need money to burn in order to achieve that because you aren't going to be making money directly by owning Reddit stock and manipulating public opinion takes time.

Seems like putting your efforts behind censoring and banning your user base while simultaneously trying to give a pass to a facist oligarchy is a bad idea. That's the thing about oligarchy, it's a small club and if you weren't already in it, you're not going to be any time soon. Facebook and Xitter don't want to share the money from ads and adversarial state\private actors

They’re permabanning everyomangionene who says anything good about Luigi Mangione, who is literally the greatest hero of the year in America, if not the decade. What did they think was going to happen?

Maybe it’s because they banned all of their users

Reddit has very weak leadership in my opinion.

I wouldn't be betting on them, especially when their user base is going to want them to stand up for them and the Elon fiasco shows Spez won't.

It's a tinderbox before the next large Reddit protest happens again and more niche communities splinter off to the fediverse.

I’m fairly certain they misled investors on their last earnings call. I noticed some banned accounts suddenly had their ban lifted right before the call, and then reapplied right after.

On the last investor call, they said they had a lot of returning users. This was after their election ban hammers, and prior to the Luigi ban fest.

Can’t wait to see how they try to spin things on the next one.

One man's slowing growth is another man's hardening growth (me, from reading this headline).

~Ha~

Ha

HA.

I mean, with all the censoring and pandering to Musk, allowing for entire bot swarms to the point it really becomes obvious it's happening - who could have predicted this?

That's right, kids. Allying yourself with fascist tendencies in any way, shape or form will hurt you in the long run. Just provide the damn service people are looking for and stop playing god, trying to use your platform to shape opinions and censor statements you or your buddies don't like.

All I use reddit for is porn now, so the ads are really easy to spot. Like if I see someone trying to show me tupperware when I was just looking at goth girls and femboys, I know to keep scrolling.

lmao, they tried to suspend my account for "harassing" a scam post.

Good. I got banned just today for "inciting violence" then when I asked what I did they couldn't tell me. Musk pressuring spez into harsher moderation is probably part of why I was actually banned. I followed every rule but was active in left wing communities and it seems that's enough to be deplatformed under the trump regime.

Oh no! Anyways, what's everyone's Friday plans?