People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn’t necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

Interesting read.

The likes of Spez were just not that intelligent enough to figure out how to make Reddit pay before the VCs called in the investments. Not that it’s an easy problem to solve, but if you’re going to take on money like Reddit did you sure as hell needed a better plan then leaving it up to later to figure out. Amazon had a plan clearly, Reddit did not.

Also, what Reddit is now doing mimics a little of what Facebook did too, the enshitification of your feeds (just look at the app). They’re just hoping Reddit is as addictive as Facebook is and you’ll stick around regardless. I wonder if they recent;y hired some new advisers that told them to make these recent changes too?

With interest rates going up it’s costing more and more to have borrowed money sitting in the likes of Reddit hoping for a nice payday one day.

We’re not even using their software now. It shows the power of open source that all of this can coexist peacefully despite differing opinions.

On their own instance, that they run. So again, who cares?

I see something similar in a lot of tech-related threads too.

Just check out posts and comments about Corsair and AMD in particular. There is often no room for logic, facts or debate around their products on Reddit. Rather, threads feel like you’re stuck in a marketing promo event where everyone feels the products are great and fantastic and can do no wrong. It’s eerily like you’re seeing a bunch of bots or paid shill accounts all talking to each other.

Notice how Reddit haven’t engaged in any positive damage control at all? It’s just been hit pieces against devs, an AMA with completely canned responses and unprecedented wide-spread hostile action against it’s content creators/power users/mods?

Reddit is in full-blown sell out mode right now and nothing but money matters anymore. It’s all down hill from here.

The timing must have sent ernest’s head spinning I think.

Reddit won’t die in a big catastrophic Digg moment, that was a rare event that doesn’t usually happen so blatantly.

However, Reddit has reached its high water mark though, I absolutely agree. It’ll slowly continue to bleed good, contributing power users like yourself in favor of becoming an algorithm-run mass-appeal corporate shit hole just like Facebook. It is very sad to see moderators like yourself being treated so poorly though and I hope you stick around here at least somewhat even if it’s just for your own sanity.

About 95% of the time I spent on Reddit was via a third party app on my phone, so come June 30 I physically can’t do that at all.

Thanks good guy Spez for helping me beat this addiction.

I think it was a success no matter how mainstream news outlets or Reddit want to spin it.

The mods of subreddits very cleverly pointed out that the direction Reddit is heading in stinks and even all the masses who don’t care about it still got the message though being inconvenienced by not having access to their favorite echo chamber for a few days. Just look at all the comments on “should we open up” posts from pissed off mouth breathers basically demanding they return things to normal.

At the end of the day, of cause Reddit was going to force mods to open up their subs or remove them. The mods never really had any power in the situation anyway and the precedent of Reddit just taking over subs was already well established. If Lemmy or Kbin was another 5+ years in development with a couple of much larger communities already well established then the exodus might have approached Digg levels again, but the lack of easy mainstream alternatives means that Reddit was always going to get its way eventually.

Personally, I’d never even heard of Lemmy, Kbin etc until recent events and thought it was limited to only Mastodon which never really interested me.

The amount of software development recent events have inspired around the Fediverse seems to be just the kick it needed to have a bright future too.

I really hate how much certain groups constantly dog whistle about transgender people as if it’s the new scary gay people that are coming for your kids or something. Meanwhile, the average person would be lucky to even run into a transgender person and even realize it on any given day.

My father did warn me never to stick my dick in crazy.

Sadly I was not a smart man.

Here’s the thing: typically I’m not going into a discussion on social media with the aim to change people’s opinions or even to argue with them.

But what ends up happening is that they immediately assume it’s a bad high school debate and things quickly devolve into bad faith arguments, attempts to nitpick and just general toxicity.

I’ve long suspected this is the case. Even Facebook publishes reports saying their platform is rife with paid corporate shills and government agencies pushing agendas and Reddit appears to be no different. I mean you can even test this by posting about a competing product and watch as they all come out to downvote you to oblivion and trash everything about it.

Hit the nail on the head with this. The phone app makes this especially apparent as the front page is a feed of stuff you’re not subscribed to but rather what the algorithm thinks will drive engagement. The website with the new interface has the same approach but for now still retains the old functionality too or I think they would have had yet another riot on their hands.

Exactly, when you put it out there it’s out there on every single platform there is. It doesn’t matter if you “delete it”, the moment you share it you have lost control over it entirely.

For the same reasons I never understood why people post on Facebook with their own full name and life story out there in the open either.

Plex is better overall currently imo having tried both recently. It’s just simply more mature software where things just work and it has a ton more features.

Jellyfin is pretty awesome though in its own right and heading in a great direction.

The awards system immediately lost all meaning it might of had the moment they implemented it.

Reddit silver jpgs were still the best award system that ever was on that website.