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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] samus12345 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (37 children)

Same here because of a Lemmy post. Truly 2023 is the year of rapid enshittification for the large websites that have dominated the internet for the past decade or so.

[–] rookie 50 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Google right there alongside, going from useful results to sponsored ads and replacing the useful basic sections in their nav bar (i.e. "News") to whatever random categories their algorithm thinks fit your query.

Honestly, I'm worried that people will be put off by extra level of complexity but I really hope the fediverse takes off, this feels like the only part of the internet moving the right direction at the moment.

[–] SuperSoftAbby 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly feels kinda like the pre 00's internet. Barely any bells and whistles.

[–] Marlowe 10 points 1 year ago

Agreed, which was also why I used RIF and old.reddit in the first place. This is how i like my feeds anyway

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