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Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...
I’m old enough to have witnessed the early beginnings of the Internet in the 90s - and what’s happening now with the fediverse feels like coming back to its roots.
We may well find that the implosion of Twitter and Reddit - within 6 months of each other - is the beginning of the end for “big tech”. It’s unlikely that it will go away entirely but I do feel a seismic shift happening. I seriously hope that it’s not a false dawn.
Not the end of big tech. You're likely posting from MacOS or Windows and using services like AWS, Azure, or GCP on the sites you use and abuse.
The end of centralized social media though? I hope so.
I’m definitely not going to download the official reddit app, I’m done with it for good. Lemmy’s mobile website is good enough for now, hoping that the Apollo developer decides to make a Lemmy client eventually
I also will never install the official reddit app. I'm trying to move away from reddit altogether for various reasons.
I created this account this morning and am writing this message on Jerboa (got it off fdroid). So far so good!
Fellow Jerboa user here - it's basic but it has everything needed. Currently I'm in a remote French Polynesian island and it's perfectly responsive.
Bonjour from Canada!
Bonjour! En tant qu'Américain non francophone, être ici me donne envie de ne pas avoir appris le latin au lycée.
J'ai appris le français au lycée. Je ne me souviens pas de grand-chose par contre. Google a traduit cela pour moi, mais ça a l'air correct.
Yeah I'm on jerboah from the Google app store. Seems to work fine
Shit, let's go back to digg, why not? Is it still there?
checks digg.com
Oh shit, nevermind, here is good!
"... not going to change anything"
Yet look what happened to the fediverse. I wouldn't be here without his boneheaded move. So it already changed things for me and thousands more like me. I don't plan on going back.
Yeah. Shit is really going down on reddit right now. Spez is trying to paint this as "power hungry mods are closing down your favourite subs. Let admins control reddit more and we'll stop the power mods". Sadly, it really seems to be working for a lot of people. Classic tactic of the ruling class turning people against one another to distract while they fuck people over. Its like the iq of the average redditor dropped over night.
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.
Sadly, it really seems to be working for a lot of people.
Most of those people will realize in a few months.... the people posting content of value left, and came here.
And, reddit will become a cesspool like never seen before.
Ha...diggs
Every time I see something like this, I'm reminded of the bathroom scene from fight Club. The listing more than the do not fuck with us part.
Not in the Dick swinging sense of it, but that hunting down and targeting the very people you rely on to function cannot end well.
Reddit has cops and criminals, doctors and fighters, manual labor and execs. Not everyone is going to resist, but the cross section of humanity that does is everywhere.
Spez should actually be very glad that project mayhem isn't a real thing. He could end up with his nuts sent press release style to a couple of news outlets. He's the fucking poster boy for the anti capitalist hate brigade at this point.
Lol, fuck spez. I've used reddit since 2011 but this debacle has been the last straw for me.
I mean it is pride month, let him dig in those heels! Silly wording aside, where the heck are Reddit's PR team and why hasn't the board put controls on Huffman at this point? Where are the adults in the room? Man this going to fill the minds of conspiracy theorists for a decade.
In my opinion even if he changes his mind and tries to backtrack, the damage is done, for sure.
F u/Spez
(That was missing from here.)
