Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.

The writing is on the wall. Those who are staying on Reddit despite everything u/spez said recently are literally asking to be shit on and will fully deserve it.

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    Imagine looking at the chaos of Twitter and thinking “wow, that’s a great idea. I need to do the same”

    Twitter is seeing declines in usage and has quickly fallen from its position of having an outsized place in the social conversation to a position of being a train wreck everyone is enjoying watching.

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        Actual quote from u/spez leading up to the IPO: “we are not profitable"

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          Well, he has to disclose that anyway before the IPO so w/e, think he’s trying to have two profitable months before the IPO and then it implodes

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    My personal thoughts are that anyone who thinks highly of what Elon Musk has done to Twitter is highly suspect and probably best avoided.

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    I’m not sure we should be so quick to alienate people who still use reddit. They may simply be overwhelmed about starting again on a (better) platform.

    Lemmy at it’s core philosophies make it much better for communities and individuals to be freer. We just need to go through some growing pains at the moment.

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      I agree that the idea of federated Reddit (Lemmy/Kbin) is better but the user experience is currently not better.

      Granted, that’s a “newness” problem that should get easier with time but to jump from relatively straightforward Reddit to a more complicated federated system is a leap in complexity a lot of people do not want to deal with.

      The real driver for change will be when there isn’t anything interesting to look at or the entire thing is overrun with boys, ads, and trolls. The loss of mods might actually be the eventual downfall of Reddit.

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      I agree. I’m trying both Lemmy and kbin (although Lemmy makes it much easier to find communities cross servers), but the lack of polished apps for either service can be off putting to the standard Reddit users. Heck, even I’m a bit taken back.

      Mastodon was so much further along because it had so much time to be it’s own thing and grow naturally. The threadiverse is being thrust into high gear and it wasn’t nearly as ready for it.

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      We just need to go through some growing pains

      Initially I read the assertions that Lemmy was implemented so efficiently at face value. But then I hear that the likes of Lemmy.mk was overloaded by the likes of 2500 users or so, and it doesn’t really hold up. I think those growing pains include making it scalable and efficient because it doesn’t sound like it is right now.

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    The CEO of a company that burned a ton of goodwill in a record amount of time praises the CEO of another company who did about the same 🤷‍♂️

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    Reddit Premium users will have a blue checkmark, coming soon! And for a new low low price of $8/mo

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    One authoritarian agreeing with another.

    He’s realized that glomming onto Elmo is the only way he’s going to get friends who can help.

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    with him at the helm i’ll never use reddit again. even if apollo made a deal to use the api I wouldn’t go near reddit until there is a change of leadership. It’s a democracy with a dictator at the helm.

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    How long now until reddit stops paying rent, gets evicted, and fires all their employees because they get told to work in an office they were evicted from and you can’t work from home?

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      Not if you want to make money. Twitter is losing bucket loads of money without a real plan to change that and it sounds like in the process they are taking on an extraordinary amount of technical debt.

      Steve doesn’t have nearly as much money to throw at reddit as musk does for Twitter either.