• empireOfLove@lemmy.one
    4·
    2 years ago

    like a multimillion dollar corporation needs you poor mf’s to simp for it. Bruh. Let them burn. Spez is ridiculously self absorbed, to the point of creating his own self-fellating subreddit populated with bots praising him.

    • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Ya know, this whole situation has me thinking about stuff - very dangerous. But it seems like this API move kills a few birds with one stone for the corporate Reddit:

      1. They lose all or most of the people that were there since the early days, so you will have less resistance to corporate shitting on users in the future.

      2. These people leaving probably removes a large chunk of trolls that fuck with the casual Reddit user - ya know, the gal that didn’t even know there was another mobile app besides the official one.

      3. Those casual users probably don’t know much about ad-block.

      I guess all that is to say: They’re probably not burning, they’re probably excited the way things are going. They can better package and sell the ever more homogenized, terrible, boring, disney-ad reddit.

      • Wren 🪐@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Exactly. It’s a calculated move for sure, but they’ve built up enough of a mainstream base of newer people because they don’t know any different from the bullshitery that they’ve been fed

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I doesn’t matter to me if Reddit survives. I was looking to move away, but there wasn’t a good alternative. With this move by reddit, the types I would get along with are leaving in mass.

  • oc53bz@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Why do people describe Reddit as a community anyways? It’s a corporation, Lemmy is a community.

    • nik282000@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Reddit is a corporation that generates its revenue from thousands of communities that use its platform. I miss PHPBB forums.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      I was never a Blizzard player, but saw how spineless the players were when they tried staging a boycott. I swore I would never be that type and here I am.

  • fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Whats that thing that happens where people begin to defend/ protect their kidnappers or abuser?