L4sBotWhat is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman doing?
GorilladrumsI don’t understand this community’s obsession with this man. If you’re no longer on his site then why do you care what happens to him or Reddit? Just move on.
Some people just want to watch the world spez burn. It’s human nature to want “your side” to win, and he’s the face of “the enemy”… Not the reddit community, mind you…Reddit Corporate.
… But yeah…I agree with you. 😁
I think it’s like, when you have a horrible breakup and you keep wanting to hear about the horrible things happening in your ex’s life that justifies you leaving them and/or gives you some sweet schadenfreude.
I’m sure some people hover between them. The only reason I still go on reddit sometimes is that Infinity is still working. I think it would go to almost 0 if I genuinely had to use the official app.
I wiped and deleted my account, and haven’t been back except for a few specific searches and occasional clicks from Lemmy links. But part of me still has some hope that there will be changes that lead to a reversal back to free API, or at least that each new story and new fuckup will continue to push more people to Lemmy.
I mean, we are on a Reddit clone that was created out of spite years ago, so bad news about Reddit will be relevant here for a while.
This is the one, right here
Damn, I got downvoted to fuck about not giving Reddit any traffic. Granted I’m new on this instance, but uh, weird
I agree with OP straight up. Is the tone of my syntax not registering correctly? Am I bein trolled?
(Yes)
Keep those numbers up (down) people!
surfrock66I think watching his moves foretells the future of communities still on Reddit. Lemmy has learned from growing pains in the recent fast growth, but could it handle a true twitter-level meltdown’s influx of users? I think Reddit needs to stay alive a little longer so community federation and migration is possible, THEN Reddit can melt down. Watching the person steering that shop is helpful in gauging urgency.
jeffwThis community is about technology and it’s one of the most popular websites.
People sunk ungodly amounts of time into reddit.
Because I used reddit for well over a decade and had hundreds of subs I followed. Friends and communities. Years and years of shared history. It has been a huge part of my life. And this turd is ruining it for everybody, and by everybody I mean millions og people. I’m not obsessed with the guy, but I am interested to know what is going on with the place I spent so many hundreds of hours on. Don’t get me wrong, I glad I found lemmy. It’s a great community, but it’s far from what we left behind.
In time we’ll hopefully get there, but in the meantime for sure fuck that piece of shit spez.
I was there for over ten years and never made any friends. I must have been doing something wrong lol
jtkNot only did I not make any friends there, I went to great lengths to ensure my existing friends didn’t know my username.
*Usernames
I compartmentalised a lot using several sock puppets
It’s okay friend. You’re here, you can start now 👋
My thoughts exactly. Reddit was an immensely widespread and unique collection of so many vibrant niche communities that has grown over nearly two decades and has been wilfully destroyed in a month.
It’s hard to mourn the loss and be resentful towards the greedy pigfucker that killed it.
Well you better start understanding it, we can’t let go. If Reddit were shattered into a million pieces tomorrow, we would still sing our bitter lamentations about the time they took away our most sacred API.
I like to watch train wrecks, but I don’t want to be in a train wreck.
FartsWithAnAccentAre you sure? Have you ever been in a train wreck before? Maybe it’s fun!
I did a study about that once. The only conclusion I could really make is that people involved in train wrecks don’t like participating in post experiment questionnaires. Though on the bright side, their refusal to answer the questionnaire meant we could sue their families for the cost of the train because being in train wrecks is also apparently associated with not reading contracts.
Science is hard.
Well no, and I’ve never seen a live train wreck either. In general I’m fascinated by disasters. The people around me can all be freaking out and I’m like ‘wow this is amazing’. However train wrecks, airplane crashes, and high speed auto wrecks are all obviously dangerous enough so that I in fact have no desire for a first hand experience.
Because if I heard that something violent and horrible happened to him, it would make me smile.
Bruh, all he did was make a minor unpopular financial decision for the sake of the company. Wishing him harm just shows that you’re terminally online. Reddit is literally nothing more than a silly forum to shitpost and watch porn. It’s not important.