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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public,” CEO Steve Huffman says in an internal memo. “Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.”

Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So lets grab the eggs shall we? xD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

“Paranoia strikes deep/Into your life it will creep…”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Saying “this will pass” is akin to a Republican politician saying “Thoughts and Prayers” after a mass shooting. They don’t give a shit about us, all they care about is collecting that paycheck at the end of the day. Fuck Spez.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

More like Spez hopes this will all pass. Sadly I think he's probably right as the majority of users will just go back. There is already a turning on some mods that have gone dark, with people saying they are the issue, not Spez.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Let us hope this is the beginning of the end for Preddit. I do not trust these walled gardens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It will pass, and they will be kings of a platform made up entirely of bots and NPC's with nothing of value to say. I have been looking for a way off that site for 5 years or more, I hated it. Hated the extreme moderation, the hardcore censorship of all open discussion during covid times and the stupidity of pun threads and bad jokes always being the top of even the most serious discussions.

I'm so bloody glad for lemmy, and especially for dbzer0 which is easily the best layout of any of the instances I've seen so far. I was over the moon to nuke 10 years of content that I contributed to that shitty platform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://nitter.net/verge/status/1668672185496399872

Thats better. replace twitter.com with nitter.net

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

I wish he wasn’t right, but he probably is.

The Imgur, tictok, Twitter, Instagram merging machine with bots, spam, ads, and privacy invasion is ready to go, sir!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might…but, then again, once the API is closed and the “objectionable” subreddits are banned in order to prepare for an IPO, the resulting landscape there might be much the same as when the blackout was in force.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A really good point was made in another thread. Reddit should stay open, and those that want to flock to it can and should. Consider it a natural filter. If the technological bar is too high to get to communities like lemmy and kbin, that might be a good thing. Segmentation of like-minded individuals allows for cohesiveness in the community. Yeah, it could have worked on reddit, but times change. Most people oddly don't vote with their wallet, but those of us who do, are now here.