WE HAD A GOOD THING YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!

We had 3PA’s, we had all the free labor in the world, just from passionate people who wanted to share the things they love, we had bots to fight spam, and extremely talented developers who made your stupid website work on mobile. It all ran like clockwork, if you could have just shut your mouth we’d all be fine right now.

But no, you just had to blow it up. YOU, AND YOUR GREED AND YOUR EGO.

Fuck u/spez

Edit: grammar

  • @_number8_
    51•1 year ago

    i am beyond fucking sick of watching companies destroy beautiful sites and communities.

    so many losses just in the calendar fucking year!! zero fucking wins, no pitching, no bats, we just have to constantly regroup and move on, shedding our past lives

    • croobatOP
      10•1 year ago

      Yeah man, at least the communities I love are pretty tech savvy (programming, web, open source, gaming), so it wasn’t much of a hassle to do the jump.

      But I just think of all those cool woodworking, cooking, music playing, history searching, drawing communities that just wanted to share something they loved, they will have it harder to accommodate to a new home and it breaks my heart.

      • @hydra
        5•1 year ago

        All of these used to live in independent forums until they were lured in into Reddit and as of 2015 they all were there so the enshittification began. All Web 2.0 platforms ran by megacorps begin with blazing fast convenient services, nowadays even Google Search is rigged and next to useless now. Google Images with superior search tools, sort by oldest, no SEO bullshit, view image and reverse image search were all present in 2014.

        Look how long it takes to load and compare it to modern GS
        https://oldgoogle.neocities.org/2011/

    • @Goldenderp
      9•1 year ago

      Almost sounds like you’re talking about the Mets

    • bruhduh
      2•1 year ago

      We are all LARPing exodii from cdda at this point already