LimitedBrain

Platforms have to turn to make money. But that can be done ethically. There were many universes where 3rd party apps didn't have to shut down. Or where they were given notice. And I guess this move just was really mask off for spez. Of course reddit needs to make money. But you can do that without shitting on the site you built.

It's the epitome of what capitalism does. It's like 'oh you like this place or hobby or content sharing or socializing? Well now it's worse and costs money!' Because capitalism has ruined everything else and it will sell you and your community of friends to the highest bidder.

Is it crashing and burning if it aligns with their explicitly stated goals? Seems like they're sticking to their guns and having a well moderated community by doing this. Some people will want that, some won't. But if we want this federation thing to work, we can't start whining about instances making choices about what their users interact with. If anything I'm glad this is happening early so that people can see how the federation stuff will play out and get used to the idea.

I think a good portion will do both frankly. Half will go elsewhere or reduce usage. Half will stay like nothing happened.

I feel that. This platform doesn't feel like it will necessarily be one to make it big. Or be mainstream. Or get all of reddit to move over.

I think what the platform does feel like is something I'll remember fondly. When I think of my time on reddit, I mostly just think of arguments, power hungry mods, and spam. This feels like a community and I wouldn't be happy to lose it to growth.

Hiya, older GenZ here. The pop culture references mostly go over my head but the show is packed full of witty humor that is still enjoyable. I don't think anyone should be worried for futurama being adopted by younger people, especially in STEM fields.

It largely has to do with their inability to sort. Also, as pointed out to me a couple times, the direct messages on there can be read by the server owner. So I don't want to use it for personal communication. And therefore it's kind of dead to me. If they fix that though, I'd be happy.

Okay let's not kid ourselves. I know reddit is quiet right now but the entire website is angry at them. Their inbox is likely full of death threats. People are searching for their employee information.

I get that it's fun to hate on spez and all but people have hunted employees down for less before. So yeah, while this is a justified protest and I dislike spez, we should all want to keep reddit employees safe right now. Most of them aren't the problem.

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Yeah I got in by saying it was a funny name and I hated reddit. But I got here early. I understand why things have tightened.

I think that stating it as 48 hours was smart. Because if subreddits start saying it's indefinite, then they have time to start replacing mods and shutting the protest down. Whereas here, 48 hours will pass. They lose a lot of money in just 2 days. And if nothing changes, you'll likely see decreased quality and/or continued protest.

I think it left room at the table for reddit to cooperate. It's a common bargaining thing.

Why bring bar when tiddy do trick?

I don't know if it will ever fall or fail, but I think the days of reddit being a place for the future of the internet to happen is over. People just plain don't trust the site anymore.

Like why build fun tools for it? Why help moderate a community? Why do anything on reddit if the post quality is insanely low, bots are everywhere, and trolls have taken over.

Companies do this a lot. They sacrifice good will and community for money because it can't easily be put down on a profit graph. So reddit seems fine to burn most of their genuine community to make a profit. And that's fine, they'll go elsewhere.

My hope is that somewhere like lemmy can stop the need to keep changing platforms.