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    1 year ago

    So, so far this year we’ve got Imgur, who thinks the internet does not run on porn, Twitter who thinks keeping users from their service is a good idea, Reddit who thinks nuking their freely made moderator infrastructure works and Youtube who also thinks randomly banning people who are smart enough to use ad blockers won’t have any effect.

    At this point, I’m starting to make up increasingly bizarre theories as to why techbros have suddenly all collectively gone insane. The one I came up with this morning was that they all snorted coke of the same hooker’s ass which was somehow tainted with a brain eating amoeba.



  • Reddit will go the same way as Digg. The site will remain, but the lurkers will start to migrate once it becomes apparent that the 1% of us that create content have mostly left. Down the line in a few years, we’ll all be laughing at the pissbaby formerly known as Steve Huffman and say “Anyone remember THAT clusterfuck? Oh man, he really thought he had it made, talk about fucking yourself over!”

    RIF made Reddit bearable to surf on a phone, without it, there’s just no point. RIP RIF, you were a fucking amazing app for the tiny investment it cost everyone!



  • I think it’s what we need to further push the envelope further. We’re not using the full capability of our hardware that we have today by even a longshot. There’s too much fucking overhead everywhere. And I say that as an artist who fucking LOATHES the shitty rendered music paradigm over the modular approach that we used to have. We see it everywhere though, wastefulness in RAM usage, no damn compression in anything natively, no thought on what data structures would result in the lowest footprint on the harddrive, no actual concern for using higher level langugaes over lower ones.





  • Tons of shills and astroturfers too in every community, basically repeating the same talking points over and over. And then they’ve got doomgloomers who are trying to convince people that it’s pointless. And now lately you have the most insidious assholes, the ones that tell moderators to “protest” by not moderating. That last one is hilarious because if you stop moderating a community, Reddit WILL give it to someone else or ban it.

    Either way, this place is nice a cozy compared to Reddit, it’s like in the old days. I’m loving it.



  • Well, we’ll see. One of Bloombergs columnists just fired a warning shot across their bow by pointing out that they’re rapidly losing their core audience and that a migration is practically guaranteed at this point because of their actions. Also bear in mind that Reddit is using astroturfers to aggressively push their “fuck the mods” narrative. Most people aren’t buying it since now everybody is starting to see just how uniform their talking points are. And mind you, just as with the whole Wizards Of The Coast debacle, when financial institutions and newspapers start telling you that you’re screwing up your stuff, that’s real bad because investors tend to listen to those before making a decision.

    What Reddit’s management could do would be to simply scapegoat ol Spaz and feed him to the wolves by firing him and then saying “We listened to you, here’s [reasonable pricing]” Then they could not only restore their brand, but keep moderators on staff AND cash in on people doing volunteer work in creating/moderating content while paying for it.

    However, it seems that often, business intelligence people seem to lack basic insight into human motivation and empathy. And that’s something that’s been literally confirmed in science.


  • Rando internet hug

    I still have my account left because I’m an incurable optimist. Or rather, realist. Spaz can’t keep getting away with this shit forever you know? At some point, the board is going to look at his childish antics disguised as corporate governance and say “Hey, this guy is a big fat phony!” and then… his goose is going to be cooked.

    Still, deleting tons of shit is rough. I did the same for my Digg account which had a few years on it.

    But … see it like this, you used your voice and you said “fuck you!” and left. That counts for something.

    The fediverse and lemmingverse reminds me of how Reddit used to be. Sure, fewer posts, but much more salience. More actual content instead of repost bots. Less Onlyfans and more actual horny people posting stuff. More nerds and less HURR DURR retards.

    I know I jumped off the cliff to be with you fellow Lemmings, but damn if it isn’t fun!