What a disgusting article. I wonder how much spez paid for it, or if the author (apparently a ‘longtime Redditor’) had his account threatened. That, or maybe he’s just so used to corporate bootlicking that his first response to seeing a distressed billionaire was to start lapping at his soles.
Also, this puff piece reeks of arrogance. We fucking made that website what it was, and now this pathetic weasel thinks he no longer needs us? And there’s dumbasses on Reddit who defend this shit???
Spez, or some other party involved in the financialization of Reddit and has an incentive to tilt opinion maybe. It’s all the kind of things that seem to happen.
I have seen the kind of thing you’re talking about plenty of times of Reddit and twitter in the past. Where users are shitting on a company, then all of these weird apologetic comments start coming out of nowhere, that nowhere near that many normal people would be spouting in defense of a shit move by a shit company.
The lack of negativity and divisiveness right away was noticable on here. The responses all looked much more respectful too.
I wish I had your faith in humanity, but I do believe that a lot of these idiots genuinely believe that spez is fighting against the ‘evil powermods’ to ‘protect the rights of the users’.
And there’s dumbasses on Reddit who defend this shit???
You gotta remember that there are tons of casual users (which probably outnumber 3rd party app users, if we’re being honest) that haven’t ever known anything else, and they see all this noise as an interruption to their day-to-day scrolling.
One of the subs I used to frequent most often (r/hockey) was full of users who were pissed that it was blacked out for the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs, so there was no live thread for the last (and biggest, most important) game of the season, and thought anyone who supported the blackout was just being whiny.
I’ve just accepted that Reddit’s base has shifted, its no longer what I remember it being, and I’m not a part of it.
Estimates of TPA users were pretty low. Like 3%. That said the majoriy of the content and moderation also only comes from like 1-3% of users as well. So it was always a question of how much those two small groups overlapped. You can afford to lose a large chunk of casual users. If you lost 50% of your content posters and moderators, they’d be fucked. Stale front page would be the death knell for most casual users. They aren’t loyal. They’ll jump to TikTok or Instagram or wherever to get their meme fix.
I immediately heard alarm bells when I read the title. This dude really said 'users need to let Reddit grow up" in response to this dude’s disgusting behavior.
Reddit leadership clearly no longer aligns with what it’s core users want.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be new users that like whatever changes come, but the shifts they are making go against the original purpose of the site. That means people looking for that core experience will eventually look elsewhere.
We just need to let Reddit go. It was always going to go this way. Like all things run by corporations, it all goes to shit for the almighty profits.
What a disgusting article. I wonder how much spez paid for it, or if the author (apparently a ‘longtime Redditor’) had his account threatened. That, or maybe he’s just so used to corporate bootlicking that his first response to seeing a distressed billionaire was to start lapping at his soles.
Also, this puff piece reeks of arrogance. We fucking made that website what it was, and now this pathetic weasel thinks he no longer needs us? And there’s dumbasses on Reddit who defend this shit???
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Spez, or some other party involved in the financialization of Reddit and has an incentive to tilt opinion maybe. It’s all the kind of things that seem to happen.
I have seen the kind of thing you’re talking about plenty of times of Reddit and twitter in the past. Where users are shitting on a company, then all of these weird apologetic comments start coming out of nowhere, that nowhere near that many normal people would be spouting in defense of a shit move by a shit company.
The lack of negativity and divisiveness right away was noticable on here. The responses all looked much more respectful too.
I wish I had your faith in humanity, but I do believe that a lot of these idiots genuinely believe that spez is fighting against the ‘evil powermods’ to ‘protect the rights of the users’.
You gotta remember that there are tons of casual users (which probably outnumber 3rd party app users, if we’re being honest) that haven’t ever known anything else, and they see all this noise as an interruption to their day-to-day scrolling.
One of the subs I used to frequent most often (r/hockey) was full of users who were pissed that it was blacked out for the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs, so there was no live thread for the last (and biggest, most important) game of the season, and thought anyone who supported the blackout was just being whiny.
I’ve just accepted that Reddit’s base has shifted, its no longer what I remember it being, and I’m not a part of it.
Estimates of TPA users were pretty low. Like 3%. That said the majoriy of the content and moderation also only comes from like 1-3% of users as well. So it was always a question of how much those two small groups overlapped. You can afford to lose a large chunk of casual users. If you lost 50% of your content posters and moderators, they’d be fucked. Stale front page would be the death knell for most casual users. They aren’t loyal. They’ll jump to TikTok or Instagram or wherever to get their meme fix.
Then it’s a good thing we moved on.
We had a live thread here, and it was awesome.
Why such an unbelievable theory?
You’d be surprised at how many dicks a ‘power user’ could eat to retain their account.
I immediately heard alarm bells when I read the title. This dude really said 'users need to let Reddit grow up" in response to this dude’s disgusting behavior.
Reddit leadership clearly no longer aligns with what it’s core users want.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be new users that like whatever changes come, but the shifts they are making go against the original purpose of the site. That means people looking for that core experience will eventually look elsewhere.
We just need to let Reddit go. It was always going to go this way. Like all things run by corporations, it all goes to shit for the almighty profits.