First subreddit over 10M to go private. The message shown when trying to enter the sub is a quote from spez:

I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticize Reddit is that we weren’t a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it’d be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way. Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, April 2023

  • shinratdr@lemmy.ca
    55·
    2 years ago

    “So I think it’d be really hard for me and the team to kill Reddit in that way. But I’m not one to back away from a challenge, so hold my beer.”

  • feetongrass@beehaw.org
    50·
    2 years ago

    Over the years I’ve become a glass half full kind of a person when small people fight against big corporations. Eventually the dust settles, and the people give up, but the company goes on. There are exceptions, but this has been the norm. I would be pleasantly surprised if all this actually brings Reddit’s downfall.

    I think there are two reasons. I think Reddit has way more ‘normal’ users than Digg who feel strongly about this, and there is no one single Reddit to replace Digg this time around. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

    • pancakeOP
      391·
      2 years ago

      There is not a single Reddit, but there’s a single Fediverse, offering a single alternative to every social media. And it’s growing faster than ever. We shall win!

      • SyJ
        7·
        2 years ago

        How does this compare to the twitter exodus

        • pancakeOP
          23·
          2 years ago

          Well, Twitter is a lot larger than Reddit, so more people were involved, but Mastodon was actually a lot (250x) larger than Lemmy before the exodus, so while Mastodon only increased its user count 4-5x, Lemmy is already past the 10x mark and the exodus has barely begun!

          • FaceDeer
            27·
            2 years ago

            This is the number one source of reassurance I give people who object that Lemmy is “overrun by tankies.” That was just the earliest niche community that happened to jump ship in this particular direction. Now, even at this early stage, Lemmy is being overrun by everyone else.

            • zakiuem
              131·
              2 years ago

              People will start contributing to Lemmy software. Anarchists and democratic socialists will also improve it, not just Marxists.

          • taj
            3·
            2 years ago

            I tried to get on board mastodon a few times over the years and it’s… Never ‘taken’. I did leave Twitter tho. Not that I was ever a major user, tbh. But still. I am still on Facebook tho, I admit.

    • zalack
      13·
      2 years ago

      Just a nit: Given the context of the rest of your post, I think you mean “glass half empty”.

      “I see the glass half full” means optimistic, while “I see the glass glad empty” means pessimistic. The idiom is about what a person chooses to focus on in a less-than-ideal situation: what’s missing, or what’s still there?

      (Not saying you don’t know that, just explaining for anyone who isn’t familiar with the idiom)

  • Ichebi@lemmy.pt
    35·
    2 years ago

    This quote brought tears to my eyes. Greed is an amazing thing but community (Lemmy) is an even amazing one. I look forward to build something meaningful here

  • BIFF@lemmy.ca
    21·
    2 years ago

    It’d be truly sad if this shareholder enshittification of Reddit is what guts it and leaves its corpse in a ditch, but it does seem to be the way most things are headed these days.

  • hurricane155@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 years ago

    I don’t really follow too well. Is this just turning private and they continue to use with the community they have or will they just point blank stop posting on that sub?

    • AClassyGentleman
      21·
      2 years ago

      Going private means nobody can view or post in the sub unless manually added by the mods. Presumably they won’t be adding anyone since that defeats the purpose, so yeah, nobody can view or post.

    • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
      13·
      2 years ago

      No, it means the subreddit inaccessible to everyone except mods and admins. It’s effectively suspended to everyone else.

    • FaceDeer
      32·
      2 years ago

      They’re /r/unexpected, so if they were to state one or the other I don’t know if that could be trusted anyway.

    • supermario182
      4·
      2 years ago

      I think the main plan is 2 days to start, but prolonged if nothing changes. Each sub could do it’s own thing though