• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.

    Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.

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      I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.

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        when is the IPO (what is an ipo) happening? i want to see their stock graph fall and jerk off to it

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          I dunno there have been rumours that their IPO is just around the corner for years now, idk how they justify it reddit just isn’t set up for that sort of growth model. Its users (at least before all the nonsense) I’d say are on average more likely to use 3rd party apps, ad blockers and not engage with the kind of activity that normally creates revinue (thats frankly why I’m here I’m a reddit refugee from appolo). My guess is all this activity is prep for going public but I just can’t see it going well.

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          IPO = Initial Public Offering

          It’s basically when a private corporation goes public and offers shares of their company to the public for the first time, as well as listing on a major stock exchange. It’s worth noting that private corporations can issue stock to individual shareholders, those shares just aren’t traded on the open market.

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        I’ve been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It’s been surprisingly effective.

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      12 years that place was more of my life then i care to admit. constantly scrolling.

      …honestly i should thank him for breaking that addiction

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        This is one of the things I like about Lemmy. I can scroll through and be done in 10-20 minutes. More if I want, but otherwise, the rest of the day is mine for the taking. It’s like I’ve escaped and reclaimed my time.

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      It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.

      A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.

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        My bar isn’t set too high to beat Reddit.

        I’d be perfectly happy if we have small but thriving communities spread throughout the fediverse on a diverse set of niche topics.

        We’re in a good place for memes, star trek, and general discussion, niche content still has ways to go.

        But to those people that are trying and posting to niche communities, I see you and I appreciate you!

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          I just want more diversity of communities. That needs more diversity of users, and that needs scale.

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          Yeah every time Reddit pulls some shitty stunt, we get a new influx of angry people demanding algorithms, whining about federation being too complicated and picking fights.

          It’s like the bar just closed and everybody’s going to 7-Eleven to be mad about it.

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      Couldn’t have said it better myself, haven’t been back once since I joined Lemmy and I never will.

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        I only go back when there’s an answer to a DDG search. There’s so much valuable information there, but as time goes by, that will change and the answers will become less accurate. In ten years, it’ll be a graveyard.

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          One can hope, but you’re right. There is too much valuable information on there to ignore when it’s needed.

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        I’ve been back a few times for specific communities that haven’t moved over, so like once or twice a week

        It’s much like when I initially went from Digg to Reddit; it was dramatic then with time it was less unless until one day I realized I hadn’t been back to Digg in forever.

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        It’s quite annoying actually. A huge number of the results return pages that are years old and a huge chunk of the comments are just gone.

        I know why I know everyone went through all their posts and edited or deleted them or both but it shouldn’t be returning in search results now.

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          I have a bookmark that is a link to Google with a prepopulated search field with stuff like -site:reddit.com after:2019

          Edit: corrected -site:

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      Honestly you took the words right out of my mouth. I literally could not have said it better myself. I hate that man, and his company for what they did to one of my absolute favourite pieces of the Internet. Reddit will live in on history, because I sure as hell won’t go there anymore.

      Reddit will keep making horrible decision after horrible decision, completing the process of enshitification, until they slowly piss off their remaining userbase one by one until they have nothing left and go the way of Digg. It’s gonna take a long time because people hate change, but they usually hate bullshit more than that and everyone has a breaking point.

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          Who I blame doesn’t matter. I just stopped using it. Spez doesn’t care that I’m gone. Neither does the board. I don’t like current reddit. But I’m under no illusion that they will to clamor to keep the users that want vpns and anonymous viewing.

          A large group of data providers using the site is better for them than a huge group of content sharers.

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            Conspiracy theory: I think the whole Pao thing was a power play to make spez more powerful and played the userbase like a fiddle by doubling down on reddit’s built in misogyny and anti-authority/corporate bent at the time.

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      Honestly, this is part of a broader trend of enshittification sweeping the Internet these days. It’s not just spez, it’s any SV bro from the current crop of technology companies. I think this is a lesson worth remembering for all of us who took the freedom and magic of the Internet for granted.

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      I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
      I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
      I’m gone from reddit for good.

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      Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.

      Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.