This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
Big agree on this. Look at Digg, it stayed operational as a social media site until 2018! Let’s hope not for Reddit’s immediate demise, but its slow descent into obscurity.
Digg took several years to decline into irrelevance. The first blow was the HD-DVD key kerfuffle, where admins were banning users left and right. That’s when I made my reddit account, as did many others. After the dust settled at Digg, it was another year plus before they changed things up to benefit power posters and essentially bury everyone else. I think it was another year or two before they did the thing where they removed all commenting, which was the last nail.
What was the HD-DVD thing? I was on reddit so I saw all the digg users come in but I was never really clear on the events leading up to the exodus.
HD-DVD encryption crack was published on Digg, and censored. Digg community got creative and kept exercising free speech (mugs with the encryption key on it and other types of posts with the encryption key somehow embedded in the content of the posts). https://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/05/02/0235228/diggcom-attempts-to-suppress-hd-dvd-revolt This old article from Slashdot sums it up, while the comments have a lot in common with the current Reddit controversy. History is repeating itself…
The HD-DVD event was some true internet history.
Don’t forget DivX.
That would be lovely wouldn’t it? Watch it go public only to slowly lose value over years and never come back? I would love to see Wall Street bets betting against it. Now that I’ve found so many excellent alternatives I’m more than happy to watch it dwindle away to nothing in the fullness of time.
Doesn’t that result in the general public owning shares that gradually decrease in value while the current owners make money at the current value? Seems like index funds will be paying for it unless the actual amount the Reddit owners sell it for goes down before the sale.
Satisfying I guess, but frustrating that the people that did the damage get a payout while the public holds the bag while it deflates.
Your are right but thats the same as in many other IPOS. If you buy shares from a company you have to inform yourself where you spend your money.
Yeah, it’d just be nice if it lost all that value before going public and ended up a loss for the VCs instead of retirees.
Can you give examples of the alternatives? My daily habit of trying to load reddit (and closing it now) needs something else
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I’ve seen a couple similar comments like this. Is this some joke I’m not “in” on or are you types just idiots?
Just trolls. We’ve got one mod, who is also the dev. So moderation is gonna be… not great for a while. Nothing against our mod/dev, it’s just gone from a one-man-job to needs-a-team overnight. And even a properly sized team will need a while to develop tools.
I worry that now beehaw is defederating from lemmy, the trolls who were on lemmy are coming to kbin so they can continue to mess with beehaw. This is the first real troll I’ve seen from kbin, and he joined an hour ago.