Already started moving my shit off Google. Been with them since 2004 and have nearly my entire post-high school life in there. I won't ever watch their ads, I'll stop going to YouTube the day my ad-blocker stops working.

That was the event planned using TikTok, which prompted them to propose banning the app (the first time).

Honestly, those still on Reddit are either lurkers or never gave a shit about the "protests" to begin with. The real measure will be the IPO. With that said, one tech group stroking off another means very little, anymore. Gizmodo can write their fluff piece.

The capitalists are concerned about the plebs using social media to organize and call out lies, doing everything they can to break up or muddy the waters of social media platforms ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections. The goal is to disrupt the platforms and drive away dissenting users who would use these platforms to organize against them and debunk misinformation/lies.

Musk buys Twitter (for far more than it was worth, lol) and drives it into the ground. Zuckerberg starts Threads to give people another "slowly boiling pot" to catch some of those looking for Twitter-alternatives. Spez and company enact changes to the platform, to artificially inflate their ad revenue ahead of their final valuation, which can't happen if users are allowed to skirt their ads with better clients. I didn't talk about Facebook, but it hasn't been relevant since COVID showed us how bat-shit crazy our families and neighbors are. Facebook is basically Nextdoor, but world-wide. We can't forget about the TikTok users. The parent company can't be touched or bought so they're just trying to outright ban the platform here.

The ultra-wealthy are showing us how scared they are of the up-and-coming new demographic of voters, who grew up on social media, know how to use it better than them, in ways they couldn't predict, and don't give a fuck about TV news, printed media, or corporatized websites. The last two elections have slowly been reversing the progress these regressionists have made using the gullibility and entitlement of the Boomer generation, the ignorance of the Gen-X generation, and the brittle corpses of the millennials to push their agenda.

The Arab Spring showed these wealthy fuckers how dangerous the people can be when they are allowed to use social media to organize and they don't want it to happen again at a time when we're finally starting to wise up to the "two-sides-of-the-same-coin" world we live in, and a new voting season has so much on the line for them.

Fuck the wealthy, money's made up, and may ass cancer rid us all of their kind!

He really needs a, "choke this mother fucker out" order.

Not true, they did something to stop the leopard face-eating, they stopped giving the leopard money! Take that leopard!

Sadly, for some they will believe it and feel defeated and return to reddit thinking it's true, and watch as reddit becomes the Facebook/Myspace of this era.

How nice it will be if the IPO is an absolute disaster!

I appreciate your work. Honestly, any site that makes me 'sign up' to read the full thing just becomes another ignored page. Fuck this gatekeeping mentality. I'll never disable ad-blockers and will never sign up for free shit just to use it. Because at that point, it's not free, the price is your info.

This really is the most dystopian of timelines.

My wife and I had our first, and currently only son, in December of 2019. As COVID took hold, I fell into a dark funk that I have yet to break free of. I took care of my son, but I pretty much stopped taking care of trivial things like my health, the health of my snake (who ended up paying the ultimate price), and my home. My hobbies and aspirations seemed to fade away almost overnight. I basically stopped living.

I have no idea how much of this is parenting or dread for the world I didn't create, turning to shit just in time for my son to experience it. It's been over 3 years and I still avoid doing anything extra at home or work, projects seem like overwhelming mountains, and I can't help but feel like nothing matters anymore. I survive, I don't live.

It's not fair to my son. I'm not suicidal, but as I have told my therapist, I don't feel like there's much outside the four walls of my home to give a shit about or try for. My whole self seemed to have died with COVID and all I have now is my wife and kid.

Today I'm pretty sure my wife and I are addicted to weed (legal in my state) and don't go out much. We work, come home take care of our kid, but really never do extra. I feel bad for my son. He's our world, but that's it. Week to week, we go through the grind but never feel like we're living. COVID laid bare something that had been previously obfuscated: the rich are gonna rich and we are just fodder for their wealth.

I guess I'm saying all this to yell into the void. I see your struggle, I am wading through my own shit, so at least you aren't alone. My therapist and wife say I can't change the world so focus on my kid. Problem is, my disdain for this world, my compulsive, defeated desire to "eat the rich," does affect my son, who will face the water shortages, the overwhelming heat, and the dying planet that will continue to crumble around us. The wealthy have ruined everything that could allow me to ignore their shittiness.

This recent bout with the wealthy hoovering up all the money started with Reagan, and it will all end with the death of our planet.

Peace, love, and humpty-ness forever!

If you're the richest man on earth, and your workers (and other pesty workers) are using Twitter to organize, just buy the platform and run it into the ground!

If this is the case, I guess it makes sense why these bad, seemingly "money-losing" changes aren't going to be felt by the company or CEO. Soon as they go public, the elite that pushed these changes will buy up the amount they promised, spez will take his payout, and they will have "union-busted" another prominent social media platform used for progressive ideas and discussion.

If that's the case, maybe reddit thinks if they do the same things Musk is doing to Twitter, it will appeas the Musk and he will want to buy reddit. I mean soon it will have everything that Twitter has: more bots than actual users, more ads, more pointless shit to make crypto boys wet, and fewer eyes on the page due to required signups and logins.

Greed and hubris!