• BrooklynMan
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    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

    • OOFshoot
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      “We wanted the user to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment by struggling through the dog-shit Reddit interface.”

      • @XLRV
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        1911 months ago

        Lmao, they’ll probably beat the EA comment for the record of the most downvoted post/comment, if Reddit doesn’t rig the score.

        • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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          Followed by reddit announcing that they’re removing the downvote button because it’s “used for harrassment.”

          • @XLRV
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            511 months ago

            “We’re locking this post because we’re being brigaded by trolls”

          • OOFshoot
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            They’ve had fake accounts to try and make the website look busier and they’ve edited other people’s comments. Is there anything else equally immoral they’ve done that I don’t know about?

    • @pkulak@beehaw.org
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      Or he will just answer a few comments way down the page that don’t ask anything difficult and ignore the top 20.

      • @Whaines
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        1011 months ago

        He’ll just manipulate the votes like he’s edited user’s comments in the past.

        • @Heimchen
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          211 months ago

          Are the fast enough? I mean, they could try deleting them but editing takes time

    • LinkOpensChest.wav
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      Ok but what I crave are all the horrible puns and recycled insults. It will be like the grand finale fireworks display of reddit.

    • @Tangentism
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      Spez: eat shit! You will all be my slaves in the apocalypse!

    • @Xer0
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      411 months ago

      He’ll probably edit everyone’s comments again.

  • @Acester47
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    3611 months ago

    seriously fuck this guy lol

    • Pumpkin
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      Yep. Fuck him and reddit. I hope they realise their mistake and also realise it’s too late and they’ve fucked up.

      • ThomasOP
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        811 months ago

        already too late for me. I’ve been waiting for a reason to leave.

        • BigFig
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          211 months ago

          Deleted today, I’m out can’t keep supporting that place

      • @TheFrirish@lemmy.world
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        It is absolutely NOT too late for the vast majority of users. That’s why I want reddit to go through with their plan and dig their own grave. Sick and tired of corporate bullshit to be honest.

        • I agree with this. And as much as I’d like to say I’d stick to lemming, I’m pretty sure I am one of the plebs that’d go right back the moment they reverse their decision

  • @halon5@beehaw.org
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    Could this become the most downvoted post of all time I wonder. Spez is not exactly Mr Popular at the moment.

      • BrooklynMan
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        or Ellen Pao’s AMA. remember that shit?

        • @Xer0
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          111 months ago

          Remember Woody Harrelsons AMA?

      • @XLRV
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        211 months ago

        I’m sure it will, if the score doesn’t get rigged.

    • BrooklynMan
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      711 months ago

      it would be ironic if r/DownvotedToOblivion was going dark, but they’re not…

    • @bigbox
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      611 months ago

      He’s just going to edit the downvoted count

    • @Xer0
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      111 months ago

      I’ll certainly help with making it so lol.

    • @lodronsi@beehaw.org
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      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
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        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
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      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
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    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
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      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
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        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
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            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.

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    That AMA is going to be a shitshow of epic proportions, and I’m here for it

    Fuck that guy

  • @someRandomRedneck@beehaw.org
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    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
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      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
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        611 months 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…

  • @esturniolo
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    511 months ago

    I hope that nobody asks nothing. That will be the best protest that we can do.

  • atocci
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    411 months ago

    I don’t see any way they can win back goodwill from this.

  • @Xer0
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    411 months ago

    Oh boy this will go down well.