We tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter They had to fall - to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
So long and thanks for all the fish, we’re all lemmings now.
I just can’t wrap my mind around how quickly this has all gone down
No joking. What the heck went down during the past two months? This is nothing but an unworthy end of reddit.
They kind of brought this on themselves. Tens of thousands of users shouting at them to step back away from the ledge, you don’t have to do this, back up and change course… And Reddit just looked at us blankly and jumped right off.
While following Twitter, which also jumped off first (the difference is, they had a parachute - as in they were public going private, while spez wanted to go the exact opposite direction), and now Stackoverflow is doing it too.
Hey, I got an idea: lets all follow them - surely this time it’ll all work out and be different from all those other times when it did not, right!? :-P
Stackoverflow is in trouble anyway. With GPT-4 there’s hardly a reason for users to visit it. At least not for problems that existed before Sep 2021.
Reddit really is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. An affordable option for API use would have been a good compromise but Spez cant take his head out of his own ass.
This. What these CEOs refuse to understand is that THEY have nothing to do with success of social media companies. It was the contributions that ordinary people brought to Reddit that gave it its value.
Spez and crew literally provided none of the content that makes Reddit relevant. They have monetized content of others for years and have gotten too greedy. Without the community there is no reddit, but it sure as hell can continue without spez.
This is by design. They’ve got us arguing about the api price, when their goal was to kill off third party apps and get all users on their app so they can data mine us. And the ridiculous api price is a secondary bonus for them, since AI and LLM companies will gladly pay it to sick up the content on the platform.
And the sad part is that it seems like 99 % of Reddit’s population don’t care the slightest about that and are happily enjoying the ad- and telemetry infested piece of garbage Spez wants to shove down our throats.
They will also gradually turn away from the platform as the content quality deteriorates. But it’ll be a slow process.
Shades of slashdot and digg.
Yeah right now these changes will only result in highly invested and motivated users migrating away to other platforms like Lemmy. Then, after a lag… That will result in regular users noticing that the content and moderation and all the other important things that inform the experience at Reddit really suck compared to how it used to be and that those things seem to be a lot more appealing at those other platforms. Then we will see a larger migration. Probably sparked by some new user-hostile nonsense from Reddit’s management.
Spez has been a disaster this June.
I’ve been wondering how much of this is him just losing it over Christian Selig getting (well deserved) public attention for Apollo, while no one is praising Spez for “creating” Reddit. I think he’s convinced himself that it’s his work (assuming he’s done any) that makes Reddit good, and that Apollo is good because Reddit is good, so now he just has it in for Selig. That’s not how any of this works, but Spez seems to have that typical Silicon Valley entitlement syndrome that makes techbros think they’re all that and a bag of chips, and everyone who doesn’t love them is bad and wrong.
When Reddit is Fun turns into Reddit is fucked.
Cut my app into pieces. Lemmy’s my last resort!
Federation. Upvoting, don’t give a f*** what I’m posting for
I wonder what the true active user drop-off will be after this
Worse than Reddit expects, but not as bad as we think it will be.
Reddit will carry on much like Twitter did, with a worse community and content to match.
goodbye boost :^(
thank you
That’s great
An IPO–terms update, Mods revolt
An exodus
Lemmy, Kbin overloadfor some reason, I read this comment to the tune of “we didn’t start the fire”
Kinda hoping we see lemmy subs increase after July 1… I’d love this platform to take off.
Usebase is going to explode. I guarantee it.
I made subreddits for publicmobile and iphone 13 and now I just found one for lovelive <3
We’ll get back what we lost!
Linkin park moment, not even a big fan but I was bored
spoiler
It starts with-
One post, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you cry
Keep that in mind they designed this crime
To make some more dime (Thats)All I know
Community is a valuable thing
Watch it migrate as the app users slip
Watch the base fall on the end of the June
The change ticks mods awayIts so very real (They)
Didn’t care our down arrow
Watch the revenue go fly down the window
Tryin’ to make part, you did-didn’t know
I removed it all just to watch you goYou botted everything inside and even though you tried
It all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually
Be a memory of a time whenYou shilled so hard, and got so far,
but in the end we are now all lemmings
You had to fall to lose it all
but in the end, we are now all lemmingsNot used since the blackouts, uninstalled today. Goodbye reddit! Greed spoils everything in the end.
Rest in Fun
Another blow to the corporate manipulation.
I’m very sad that apollo is gone, but I’m happy to be here.
i love how you made a reference to r.e.m.
I am quite certain that’s Linkin Park
Both. Title is r.e.m., body is LP.
And a Hitchhiker’s reference in the last sentence.
I wanted to try and cover a spectrum of things since we have spent so much of our lives (by choice of course) on an internet forum that insists on driving into a wall.
