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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Let's hope the upcoming IPO will be a massive flop!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No worries, Reddit -- I'm fine with where I'm at atm too :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The beatings shall continue until morale improves - u/spez

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny because with their over 40% valuation drop from the change they would have been better off just buying out the third party apps. Most of those apps were made with super slim teams. A couple mil and they would have sold. The API cost increase could have stood, people on 3rd party apps would have been brought into the fold and not counted towards it, and they would have then just slowly tweeked the apps towards the same user experience over time. It would have been the ultimate win for reddit and would have avoided this entire situation. Instead they decided to burn it all down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The valuation drop by Fidelity took place over time, mostly last year, so it's unrelated to the API changes. That said, I agree the admins have chosen very poorly. With the amount of money on the table, buying out 3rd party apps would have been a steal compared to the massive hit to goodwill among their users and mods they're taking now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This won't continue if I'm elected!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that stupid shit like this can be boosted so high up the thread is going to undermine the uptake of this site.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine if this was the actual donald trump who came to kbin after being banned from every other social media

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Nah, his syntax and grammar skills are too accurate. The real Trump doesn’t comprehend such things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lets hope the mega subreddits stay dark until the changes happen. I would love to see this community grow!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, spez is counting on us coming back after the 48 hours. We need communities to extend the blackout indefinitely to have any real effect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I'll be coming back. Under old.reddit, with adblockers, to subs that didn't blackout, and my comments aren't going to be exactly... productive. May as well rack up a few bans before deleting the account.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Just spam fuck spez everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddark is extremely interesting to watch today

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

we are now over 8000 subs private!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So far the big ones /r/aww, /r/music, /r/videos and /r/futurology are going indefinite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I trust you but where do you find that information if I may ask?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I may have ventured into r/modcoord, I'm sorry T_T On the brightside, a lot of subs are going indefinite it seems!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry

:-D Don't be, I'm glad you got the information out for everyone here without giving too much traffic to reddit. Thank you for your answer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Viewing on old.reddit, blocking ads, blocking trackers, etc, isn't totally against the spirit of what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

/r/apple too, which doesn’t seem insignificant

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Even if we can’t see it immediately, I'm sure potential investors are watching this all unfold very closely. Both from what the communities can do, very quickly, to damage the “product” they are looking to buy, and the corporate response to the situation. That AMA was a colossally bad idea, and continuing to double down, in the media, isn’t going to be instilling any confidence in the money people.