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  • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
    73·
    2 years ago

    I’ll give you preview:

    Everyone: stop this! you’ll kill reddit!

    Spez: eat shit! 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

    there. i just saved you a ton of time and frustration

  • halon5@beehaw.org
    26·
    2 years ago

    Could this become the most downvoted post of all time I wonder. Spez is not exactly Mr Popular at the moment.

    • lodronsi@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 years ago

      I’ve already quit the site. Even if they backpedal, it seems unlikely because of any desire or respect for the users and only because of current PR pressure. I’ve experienced it before where some hostile decision is walked back until the uproar dies down, and they try again. And again until the protest fatigue sets in.

      I’m don’t trust Reddit and have chosen to move on. Whether they stick around or not matters not to me. I’ve moved on and watch with an eye for curiosity and awareness. But no more emotional investment.

      • frustbox@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        Even if they backpedal, it seems unlikely because of any desire or respect for the users and only because of current PR pressure.

        This. Decisions like this are not made on a whim. They go through multiple stages, meetings, financial and technical analyses, reviews, lawyers … many, many desks and people who sign off on the plan. They really want this.

    • sotolf@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I for sure will spend more time here, it’s just that some niche places I am probably will never move off of reddit, and it’s either that or nothing, once old goes away though, I don’t think I will be able to use the site any more.

  • Ignacio@kbin.social
    18·
    2 years ago

    The only thing I used reddit for was to lurk, see photos, upvote and read some comments or posts. I was barely active during this couple of years with a new account, after deleting an old one. Sometimes I saw it, and still see it, difficult for me to be active because of karma, some kind of polarization or toxicity, even on safe subreddits.

    The good thing is that here, karma is non existent. Yes, you can upvote or downvote posts and comments, but those votes don’t go to you as karma, so you’re not affected. And that really helps neurodivergent people, as it’s my case too (rejection sensitive dysphoria, I think it’s called, one comorbidity of ADHD).

    So, yes, fuck Reddit, and I’ll stay here as long as it lasts.

    • CedarMadness@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      The only thing I used reddit for was to lurk, see photos, upvote and read some comments or posts. I was barely active during this couple of years with a new account, after deleting an old one. Sometimes I saw it, and still see it, difficult for me to be active because of karma, some kind of polarization or toxicity, even on safe subreddits.

      Yeah same, all my subs except my local ones were going down hill the past few years. I’m hopeful the post quality here remains high and we don’t get the same few tired predictable comments under post.

      • Ignacio@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’ll miss some communities which are not here yet. I thought about creating a couple of them and start posting some original content, but I passed.

          • Ignacio@kbin.social
            1·
            2 years ago

            My intention was to create 2westerneurope4u, but being me from a single European country doesn’t help, unless I clone myself 10 times. Besides, without flairs, half of the fun is missing. Same thing with 2balkan4you, but I’m not Balkaner, I’m w*stoid.

  • someRandomRedneck@beehaw.org
    8·
    2 years ago

    Yeah I bet this is just going to be an attempt at ass covering and blaming 3rd party devs for whatever. In any case it’s almost guaranteed to be a huge clusterfuck for reddit with whatever tone deaf replies and talking points spez regurgitates.

    • BackOnMyBS@kbin.social
      9·
      2 years ago

      a BS PR spin with lots of vague answers that imply he’s doing what’s best for the reddit community. that’s all it can be. given his history, what else could someone expect? even if he were to roll back all the expected API changes so that everyone could still continue to use reddit as we have been, i’m out. i want nothing to do with that site. it’s been getting worse for quite some time, and this was the motivation i needed to leave. plus, not that i found kbin and lemmy, i have no need for that site. i purged my accounts, so that even my accounts don’t matter anymore.

      • Acester47@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 years ago

        yeah they’ll probably spin it how it’s good for the health of the site and better for end users, blah blah blah…