“Protest and dissent is important,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the AP. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything.”

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    The pigheaded doubling- and tripling-down on this is impressive in a way. Let’s see in a couple of months how many actual content creators left reddit and came here or somewhere else. I do hope spez is left with an empty site full of lurkers and bots, after all people who actually provided content for free for years leave him in the dust…

    Then again, I’m not going back there anyway, so to be completely honest I don’t care that much - the fediverse is my new home (even though I’m repulsed by the name).

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      I can’t go back; they banned my account, after 12 years, and a few hundred thousand karma. I like to think that, in some small way, I helped make reddit a better place than it had been. And now I couldn’t contribute, even if I wanted to.

      But really, why would I want to? The point of contributing to a community is to make it better for everyone. Huffman/spez has made it clear that these contributions are not valued, even though they’re the currency that allows them to make money by selling advertisements.

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      the fediverse is my new home (even though I’m repulsed by the name).

      The name doesn’t bother me as much as not reeealy understanding how it all works together. Like, I know kbin and lemmy are different things, so I’m not sure why kbin is all full of Lemmy content.

      I’ll have to wait for it to solidify in my brain a little bit more.