Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14q12g7/subreddits_are_starting_to_see_spam_from/
Apologies if this is a repost. They’re scared lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14q12g7/subreddits_are_starting_to_see_spam_from/
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Agreed. For years I had truly (and naively) believed that Reddit, despite their prior blunders with which we are now all mostly familiar, would maintain an acceptable level of decency and never push things so far as alienate their core userbase. Shot themselves squarely in the foot on this one I think, as their recent changes affect so many.
What a bummer.
I’m doing ok without it though. I didn’t load old.reddit once today.
I probably won’t tomorrow.
I used to look at Reddit in almost all of my downtime at work. Now I’m trying to write when I see nothing new is coming up on Lemmy.
Still though. 15 years on Reddit. Goddamn. It definitely bums me out. I mean, it’s just a website, but it has helped shape so much of who I am.
I’m an atheist in the Bible Belt for example, and atheism being a default sub back in the day really helped me out a lot.
All things must pass.
I spend my work downtime the 1 day I have to be in office writing dnd campaign material to save my prep time at home.
I understand your pain with that last point. Being an atheist teen in a family that highly values religious holidays (and more) is a life experience I hope people don’t have to go through.
Things got better, as I hope things are well for you.
I’m waiting for my data takeout, so checking old.reddit.com messages once a day. No other engagement beyond that. Lemmy communities are getting really good now.
My theory is that they want to destroy anything like Reddit … a community of free thinking, free talking people all mixing and melting political ideas, theories and thoughts freely with one another.
It was an absolutely intolerable situation to bare for governments and big business and corporations that want to control people than to see them all freely talking to one another and exchanging ideas.
Reddit is like the invention of the printing press … a tool that allows people to freely share information with one another … nothing threatens the establishment than the prospect of free thinking people
Which is why Lemmy and the Fediverse is important … reddit was the single page manual printing press … the fediverse and future iterations of decentralized social media will become the automated multipage mechanical printing press
Lemmy and the fediverse will be made fun of and discredited … until it is adopted by enough people … then it will be undermined with capitalism and marketing and commerce … then the whole system will repeat itself again.
People want to talk and share … it will always be like that … no one will ever want to stop talking to others about the problems we all live with.
But that’s just the dig they did make horrible decisions that fucked Reddit up. But the 3rd party apps fixed most of those problems. Whenever I look at new Reddit it’s literally so much harder and spammy to use. For year’s now
It’s truly amazing. Even people who knew that Reddit was destined to fail someday, wouldn’t have predict it happening so fast.
Most people expect gradual change when many things in life are more like punctuated equilibrium.
Stable state despite gradual change in underlying conditions.
Then rapid change to new stable state.
There’s also the Ernest Hemmingway quote from The Sun Also Rises:
You’ve now put a fear in me about my life that I wasn’t ready for…
Sorry to do that, but I believe the world makes a lot more sense when viewed through the lens of punctuated equilibrium. It does not make things better, just makes the chaos more understandable.
The dot com bubble.
The housing bubble.
Basically every economic bubble all the way back to tulip mania.
The Arab Spring.
The changes in the USA post 9/11.
And most disturbing of all, the recent rapid swing of pretty much all environmental indicators into uncharted territory. Our biosphere may be heading into a phase of rapid change.
Nobody wants to change. It’s hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.
or they don’t survive and die and disappear … then the lucky ones who were different enough and fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time survive
the magic of evolution … evolution doesn’t care who is smartest, fastest, strongest, wisest or moral … all it cares about is who survives to procreate and birth the next generation .
This article felt a little more relevant, recommended by wiki on the one you linked: Punctuated equilibrium in social theory
It’s like Rome 😭
Like with Twitter, it’s a rapid-fire series of knee-jerk reactions, like a hammer, as in - “When you are a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”, destined to get caught, to not fix what you were supposedly trying to fix, to generate deeper and more baffling situations in the process, to fail.