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This is all a reminder that Reddit was never anything special - the people on it were. The trending of malicious compliance by moderators to an abusive CEO really highlights how exceptional people can be. This whole following corrupt rules thing in a way that just lets the corruption burn itself out is fucking beautiful.
...it's like a captain going down with the ship, while cracking Chuck Norris jokes all the way to the grave. This is what the internet was made for.
Steve really is something. Imagine thinking you can pick a fight with the internet and win. That is perhaps the most delusional thought any person can ever have.
Guy seems to have forgotten what happened to digg.
This is a summation of capitalism in general. The people at top think they are the captains of industry We just need to keep reminding ourselves that those of us down in the hulls, rowing the ships and cracking jokes and memes to keep ourselves going are the ones that keep these rotting hulks sailing.
Lol Chuck Norris jokes, now that’s, a throwback
If NSFW people start to move away, then Reddit is done for.
wisely spoken.
porn was the backbone of many a community.
The Internet was made for porn! Really dating myself with that reference haha.
Sorry Kate...
... And I recognise that reference. Right there with you
One could say it is the backbone of the interwebs.
Forever was. Forever shall be.
Praise be to porn.
Amen.
Hentai is critical infrastructure.
indeed!
I ended up making my own nsfw comm ([email protected]) that was missing in Lemmy... with blackjack and hookers!
I hope people make the other ones I miss, or I might have to do it myself
You're doing gods work bless ya
Its how tumblr died right?
yes
That could be one of the few things that could take it down.
I give Reddit two years left with how things are going. Most of the active community will be moving on by the end of this year. All this protest in action will definitely hurt their chances to IPO successfully. Even if they backtrack on their API promise, it's much too late. The damage is done. I hope spez thanks Elon Musk for the amazing business inspiration.
If they were going to backtrack, the time would have been a week ago.
At this point, they’d need to kill the paid API plan and start paying the content creators…
Any IPO will need to be without Spez. Not a chance that institutional investors will want Spez in charge. Spez has flagged himself as a risk to the business and proven he can't manage risk himself, and worse, that he's liar. Before this fiasco I was considering buying Reddit stock, now I view any potential IPO as inherently risky. I don't trust Spez as a CEO; he doesn't understand his business model.
This is pretty cool, although I would have loved if it were pictures of John Oliver with horns photoshopped on him...
Yeah, too much variety will make for actually engaging content instead of people leaving
Exactly. If it's all john oliver, eventually people will get bored of posting different variations of John Oliver.
This is the way the Reddit ends. Not with a bang but a John Oliver.
I like to think that Spaz inches ever closer to insanity with each of these creative subreddit realignments. Love it!
Lol, absolutely goat move
This is the wayyyy
Such a glorious spectacle, the fall of a once mighty internet giant.
I don't think it'll happen on July 1st, but it'll probably happen in a few years. It will be more of a slow decline.
I imagine there will be an influx at the end of the month when people's favourite apps cease to be. Following that I hope for a slow steady growth.
Probably, but the biggest user decline is happening right as we speak. Unless Reddit makes other "amazing" changes after this, the people that stick with Reddit now will likely just stay there.
Loving the malicious compliance on display from the Reddit mods.
Honestly, I reckon Reddit will eventually install mods that will restore the status quo and it'll probably be fine after. But this moment in history is so cool to watch, with massive group of internet users saying a collective, prolonged fuck you to the man. Love it.
Beautiful
People continue to be excellent, even if some examples that happen to hold power fail to meet this standard.
Ah, power, the great corrupter.
Is it really protest for pricing changes at this point?
It can be about more than one thing. It started as a protest for pricing changes and then became about the lack of respect show to protestors and is slowly heading to attempts to burn it all down.
Pethaps. Really, though, it's moved on to a general protest about the staggering lack of respect and disdain for the community that built Reddit spez and the executive team supporting him are showing the userbase.
I wish them all the best, and while fun, I hope eventually they realize the only way to win is to stop playing.
No. It's protest over a CEO who is rude to volunteer moderators.
Spez is Dolores Umbridge and we're watching Harry Potter 5 play out in real time.
Clever Way to stick it to spez