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I don’t understand this community’s obsession with this man. If you’re no longer on his site then why do you care what happens to him or Reddit? Just move on.
Because I used reddit for well over a decade and had hundreds of subs I followed. Friends and communities. Years and years of shared history. It has been a huge part of my life. And this turd is ruining it for everybody, and by everybody I mean millions og people. I’m not obsessed with the guy, but I am interested to know what is going on with the place I spent so many hundreds of hours on. Don’t get me wrong, I glad I found lemmy. It’s a great community, but it’s far from what we left behind. In time we’ll hopefully get there, but in the meantime for sure fuck that piece of shit spez.
My thoughts exactly. Reddit was an immensely widespread and unique collection of so many vibrant niche communities that has grown over nearly two decades and was wilfully destroyed in mere weeks.
I can’t blame anyone who mourns the loss and resents the greedy pigfucker that killed it.
I was there for over ten years and never made any friends. I must have been doing something wrong lol
Not only did I not make any friends there, I went to great lengths to ensure my existing friends didn’t know my username.
Are you sure? Have you ever been in a train wreck before? Maybe it’s fun!
Update: I just googled “train wrecks” and, while it doesn’t look fun, who really knows for sure?
Well no, and I’ve never seen a live train wreck either. In general I’m fascinated by disasters. The people around me can all be freaking out and I’m like ‘wow this is amazing’. However train wrecks, airplane crashes, and high speed auto wrecks are all obviously dangerous enough so that I in fact have no desire for a first hand experience.
I did a study about that once. The only conclusion I could really make is that people involved in train wrecks don’t like participating in post experiment questionnaires. Though on the bright side, their refusal to answer the questionnaire meant we could sue their families for the cost of the train because being in train wrecks is also apparently associated with not reading contracts.
I think watching his moves foretells the future of communities still on Reddit. Lemmy has learned from growing pains in the recent fast growth, but could it handle a true twitter-level meltdown’s influx of users? I think Reddit needs to stay alive a little longer so community federation and migration is possible, THEN Reddit can melt down. Watching the person steering that shop is helpful in gauging urgency.
I wiped and deleted my account, and haven’t been back except for a few specific searches and occasional clicks from Lemmy links. But part of me still has some hope that there will be changes that lead to a reversal back to free API, or at least that each new story and new fuckup will continue to push more people to Lemmy. More broadly, corporate fuckups in general will hopefully push people to decentralized platforms, so it’s always going to be interesting to read about.
I mean, we are on a Reddit clone that was created out of spite years ago, so bad news about Reddit will be relevant here for a while.
Because if I heard that something violent and horrible happened to him, it would make me smile.
