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.
The economy has turned in a way that speculative platforms like Reddit now need to get a big boost in profitability. The problem is that companies are not monoliths. So while the people making your product may be great and therefore able to build a significant platform, that doesn’t mean that the people in the more profitability oriented positions are equally skilled. Until recently these businesses have been coasting along on easy investment money and so the pressure for those staff to be good at what they do was low. We’re now seeing those people flailing around like the chairwarmers they are when they are now being asked to earn their keep. Since they mostly made the mistake of assuming their businesses were successful because of them, rather than irrespective of them, they aren’t willing to hear any sort of legit negative feedback about their actions.
Cut my app into pieces. Lemmy’s my last resort!
Federation. Upvoting, don’t give a f*** what I’m posting for
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.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Reddit is dying.
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.
thank you
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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 :^(
Kinda hoping we see lemmy subs increase after July 1… I’d love this platform to take off.
I made subreddits for publicmobile and iphone 13 and now I just found one for lovelive <3
We’ll get back what we lost!
Usebase is going to explode. I guarantee it.
Infinity for Reddit had a message about becoming a subscription based platform. So I closed my accounts and came here.
That was the last app I expected to side with Reddit smh… I deleted it and just submitted a GDPR request to Reddit to delete all my data.
I don’t think it did. I think the developer just couldn’t afford to walk away from it altogether until she gets a new income source. Infinity will probably go soon.
(ETA: didn’t side with Reddit, I mean, not didn’t go to subscription).
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.
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN!
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”
Rest in Fun
Man I really wish he/she would make an app for Lemmy. I heard the dev was going to build one for Tildes but I don’t know Tildes just isn’t the same and I have an account there.
The closest I know of is the Sync app developer coming to Lemmy: https://lemmy.world/post/803492
Same, I already miss RIF. Liftoff is ok now, and Sync might be good, but I really liked RIF
I find fascinating that the inevitable death of reddit will come by the rise of distribuited comunities rather than (being the only reason) of selfish-egotistical decisions from Reddit CEO’s.
Feels great to be a part of this transition
