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Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I left a couple of months ago. Couldn't be happier.

The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.

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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Don’t act like Lemmy can’t be immediately astroturfed as well.

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  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    You don't need to, you only need to go after the large ones. I'm already on my third instance, and having to move is such a giant pain in the ass, I don't think I'd do it again.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn't matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

    Or was it more about performance issues... service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Performance issues, which of course is the issue with federation. Sometimes it was my instance having issues, other times it was the instance I was posting too. One of them defederated from a large one and didn’t allow downvoting, which I would forget via a third party app and it would hang before erroring out.

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