LemmyStartNowis using old.reddit.com okay to use
No.
Reddit is also anonymous
Why would you use a site that lies to you?
Why would you use a site that lies to you?
You honestly expected them to tell you the truth?
They are in the run up to an IPO, they are trying to pump up the numbers as much as I can. I don't like what is happening to the place but I am not naive enough to think it would not happen.
Reddit has been going for 18 years and has been relying on VC money all that time, it could not last forever.
Eventually someone had to pay the bills.
I am surprised it lasted so long as it did in the form it was in.
Reddit was sustainable back before they started chasing profit and hiring absurd amounts of staff. They used to be able to cover their server costs with gold alone. It was only once they hired literal thousands of employees that they started needing to needle their users for money