• snownyte
    link
    fedilink
    27 months ago

    Reddit got more shitty, but as expected from Reddit users, they all made a big deal about it for a month but still continued to be users. With how stupid easy it is to make an account on there, I’m sure most just pretended to delete their accounts and just made more as an excuse to ‘start anew’.

    Like wow, bravo, what revolution, guys. You sure showed Spez. /s

    I guess on one hand, I kind of get it. We’re all going to get to a point in our lives where we’re so old that we can’t care about every little thing before we get there. Then before we’re going to die from age or whatever, some would realize how wasted of a time their lives have been when they’ve spent getting angry about every little thing to do something about it.

    So it’s probably why so many people just come to accept things as is. They’re going to die anyways so mind as well enjoy what’s here if possible before we get there.

    However, on the other hand, you know it isn’t as bad to try to be some change to the world for a better future so that nobody would have to deal with the same shit one has dealt with. And maybe if people were a little more resourceful and took cues from people who have thought better with wisdom, they’d realize that being overly angry isn’t the solution. Don’t be angry, get crafty.

    I’d like to think that this is the kind of mindset most may have.

    • @MrVilliam
      link
      English
      67 months ago

      I mostly agree, except that I’m here because I left reddit. I can’t speak for anybody else, but you can see my history here and compare it to my history there. It’s been almost a year now and I’m not going back.

      I’d like to think that enough people will get pissed off enough to make real change happen, but people think they have too much to lose and don’t see how much they have to gain. In general, I mean. Windows doesn’t really fucking matter lol. Netflix doesn’t really fucking matter. The realistic course of action is to just vote with our wallets and hope that discourages overly shitty practices from these companies.

    • I’m kind of salty how fucking easy it was for Reddit to just ignore the problem. I left them for here and haven’t gone back unless it was a Google result.

      The majority of people “stayed just for the niche community” then just assimilated and stopped coming back to Lemmy.

      • snownyte
        link
        fedilink
        37 months ago

        Because the whole third-party fiasco was treated as just the ‘cool thing’ to do. This is Reddit we’re talking about here, the kind of site that sits, thousands to a few million users who all think they’re one and two steps ahead of everyone else. The kind who think they know everything inside and out, 4-D chess .etc

        So of course they’d be the kind to take something of a situation as to what happened when third-party development got gutted out and treat that as just a trend.

        If that incident and the fact that Reddit now is an IPO hadn’t changed enough minds, nothing will. They love the attention and any attention they get as well as the karma-farming validation whenever they complain about how “reddit sucks”.

        No, it’s all for show. They’re whores.