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  • Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I don’t care about fixing Reddit and I don’t care about teaching Reddit a lesson. I don’t care if the site buckles or continues to hold on and grow while they regulalry downgrade their service as they have been doing for the 10 years I’ve been an active user. No protest of anything Reddit has done has ever caused Reddit to reconsider what they’re doing. Reddit does not care about anything because it’s not a person. It’s a business entity which will attempt by any means to maximise profit. Having a functional website or having human users or moderation at all are not strictly necessary to secure investment or generate ad revenue. Doing what investors want them to do, regardless of the actual effect it may have long-term, is what will get them investment now. That is more important to Reddit than everything else put together. There’s no mastermind, no one’s at the wheel, no idiot is unilaterally making decisions like a king. There’s only the inevitable consequences of the collective decisions of businesspeople participating in corporate capitalism.

    The main reason I don’t care is that I don’t have to care anymore. The Fediverse has been a breath of fresh air after a very long time.

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      No reason to go back and every reason not to. The Fediverse is my home now.

    • th3raid0r@tucson.social
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      Right? This was always bound to happen. The only way it wouldn’t be innevitable would require Reddit be a non-profit or co-op or equivalent. Which it certainly isn’t.

      I also agree, the sudden breath into the fediverse (I’ve been poking my head in since I ran a nextcloud instance and they had a plugin for the fediverse called nextcloud social.). This place isn’t just a handful of OSS developers and enthusiasts anymore, but something starting to resemble a community of all types.

      It reminds me of when Reddit was good, way back in like 2010 (for me) - but it feels more consequential now!

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t care about fixing reddit either, I don’t care if it lives or dies, not anymore, tho it wouldn’t be bad IMO teaching the CEO a lesson in humility.

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      no idiot is unilaterally making decisions like a king.

      Every decision is made by one person or a party of people specifically saying “Yes” to it. Whether they are “idiot[s]” is up for debate, but every single event involving anything artificial is decided by a person/people, not merely a faceless system.

    • dan@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      No protest of anything Reddit has done has ever caused Reddit to reconsider what they’re doing

      To be fair, they did fire that pedo mod they hired. Eventually.

    • CalcProgrammer1
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      Absolutely agreed. I have used Reddit since the Digg migration practically daily. If Reddit ceases to exist, so be it. I’m tired of corporate decisions running the websites we love, it’s time for them to focus on the users. If that means sites run by the users, for the users then that’s what it should be. Fediverse means no one entity owns everything and everyone is a lot more free to move around between servers. I don’t see ads or sponsored posts disguised as content being an issue here. I don’t see bullshit like Reddit Gold, Awards, Lounge and all the other pay to win garbage working here. Is Lemmy perfect? No, but is the core idea behind Lemmy infinitely better than the core idea behind Reddit? Absolutely.