Crack on Reddit I’m Done Anyways.
I was mainly a lurker on reddit with only occasional posting. But I’m done with it anyway now. Always felt a little uneasy as it was like the last social media ‘product’ i consumed after purging all other mainstream ones.
This latest drama has just shown the company management of a single website is making changes in view of its own profits. I thought i was a user but maybe I’m a customer. But have no interest in that. I’m free now.
Think I’ll float about the fediverse for a while. This is 1st post so might not actually work ha
My account on Reddit is 17 years old. I joined when it was basically a Lisp programming forum. I am a charter member, I gave them money when they desperately needed it about 15 years ago. I’ve had premium since they offered it.
I’m done. Cancelled my premium, deleted my account, uninstalled the app, moved here. Fuck Spez.
This may sound weird but were you okay leaving it?
Wow thats a long time. Were u sniffing round the fediverse anyway then or just prompted by the latest mess?
Posted similar elsewhere: With Facebook and Twitter, they built frameworks that users filled with content that the corps then loaded with ads and sold the data points but they fucked up because they didn’t fully grasp that they were content moderation businesses (especially after they all fought hard not to be labelled ‘publishers’).
Reddit had users creating & posting (links to) free content as well as carrying out the moderation and growing those communities for free, yet still couldn’t turn a profit.
Yeah were in the best position of all the big social media companies really and have spectacularly underperformed compared to the rest. Then display company policy management by hand grenade. Poor attempt
Yet your link wants me to install some dumb ducking Microsoft app so that I can read the story
It worked!
Reddit was the only social media I used too. After finding this, I can take or leave reddit. I prefer smaller community anyway.
I realised a while ago that I spent most of my time on Reddit doomscrolling through this dystopian hellscape we’re slipping into on UkPolitics so I unsubscribed from there and avoided it while I struggled with problems with Anxiety.
I went back in to doomscroll when I started feeling better.
I can doomscroll here, I’ve started posting here and there myself because that’s what needs to happen
I’ll really miss the Home Assistant subreddit so I hope that moves over.
He’s not wrong. Reddit will survive, it might just be a bit different. But that’s what they want anyway. They want to be the next Instagram or WhatsApp - locked down to the max. The people that are left don’t care about openness or 3rd party apps.
