it’s a moment that has shifted the culture of Reddit forever. And shifted the internet with it.
it’s the kind of shake-up that makes users realize the value they give to tech companies—for free—even if they just mean to give it to the community.

And when those companies tread you like sh*it for all you've done for them, it's time to pack up your bags and move elsewhere.

It's really sad to see what's happening with reddit, but don't forget, it's we - the users - that have all the power to build up communities, not reddit nor any other company, and how we've been able to make reddit grow from nothing and thrive, we can do the same wherever else we want, let's just hope we can keep the fediverse clear of greedy pigs.

I blame all these MBA folks that create value at the expense of everything else.

The internet will become a bunch of fucking billboards as the self replicating corporations grow unchecked

Yay capitalism!

This is why having a public space organised by ourselves is the way forward. Everything else is just about manipulating you to extract as much as possible value from you.

Twitter just locked down, need an account to even view now. Reddit is filled with bots spamming posts from 5 years ago. People are flocking to wall-gardens like discord.

Might be the decline of the internet 🤷

You want to know the difference between Reddit and Wikipedia? One of them is for-profit, and one of them is non-profit. Reddit acted like a benevolent entity so long as it worked to help them grow their user base. But they always knew that their user base was their product, and it was inevitable that they would try to monetize it. Wikipedia (and hopefully the lemmyverse) exist solely for their users, and which is why they have basically stuck around as one of the last truly public service websites

I blame all these MBA folks that create value at the expense of everything else.

Yes, there’s a real chance here for the people to take back the internet. Pretty amazing.