What an asshole. His IPO is gonna be terrible, and he'll only be remembered as a transitive verb every time someone gets a big head and spezzes their company to death.
I haven't visited the site or used any app since last week. I think the final nail in the coffin were the latest comments from their CEO. I'm glad there are alternatives, but in reality the break from Reddit has illustrated that while there's a place for online communities, it's exceedingly easy for a distraction to become a diversion and then a habit and then basically an addition. I'll probably be somewhat active here as I figure out how to navigate kbin or other alternatives, but I don't intend on returning to Reddit, or any other platform, site, or app to the same extent. This whole mess has probably been a net positive for my mental health, lol.
~~subreddit blackout will pass~~
Subreddit blackout will end as soon as we'll finish reassignment of head moderator role to a people of our liking, who are pro-Reddit oriented.
:D
One thing is for sure, goodwill was lost and some would-be contributors and commentors have left the platform for good. It might be a small percent, but it happened, and something was lost due to their handling of this.
@Parallax I left, and started up a magazine here to fill the hole. Went back to let other people in the sub know they have a place in the fediverse if they want. I believe in rewarding companies who are doing it right, and not giving my business to those who don't. Reddit is showing me they don't give a shit, so meh, no thanks guys. Sure, I'm only one person, but if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything, as the saying goes.
It doesn't matter how many users leaves. It matters how much contribution is lost.
The right users leaving is worse than half of everyone else leaving.
We'll see about that. I have already replaced all my comments with garbled message, as a symbolic act, and to also render it unusable for AI training purposes.
What I hate about that is that this hurts anyone looking for information just as much or more than in hurts reddit itself. I've stopped using reddit's feed and general participation, but there's still alot of valuable information on there that helps me and others in their daily life. Destroying the content feels like burning the books in a library because the library introduced an unpopular policy.
is there a tool that can be used to replace comments with gibberish?
edit: found it
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8
I'm not going as far as deleting my account. If there's ever a leadership change, I may give Reddit another chance. But u/spez has proven he doesn't care about the community. The blatant lying was the final straw for me; u/spez has lost all credibility. I'll give them another chance when they have leadership with credibility.
The blatant lying was the final straw for me; u/spez has lost all credibility.
But not the time he was caught editing other people's comments?
Mods showed they had the power and they need to use it. Spez said it himself. They can weather a 2 day blackout. The blackout should be indefinite. As I am writing this 6244 subreddits are still private or restricted according to Reddark. They need to stay dark.
atleast stay dark until reddit folds or fixes their platform so third partys arent needed
At first when i'd just found Lemmy I was on the fence. But I really like this kbin, and it should be a perfect replacement time waster.
Except no it won't because you just ran off half your userbase and made your mods quit. We don't get paid for that and when you piss people off that work for free, you'd better realize that your employees are going to be asked to do their job instead or the site shuts down as chaos ensues.
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