I can't believe how sycophants some people are. : reddit

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I can't believe how sycophants some people are. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

This is actually good for the internet as a whole. The only people left on reddit are going to be scum. It will be like Australia when Britain used to send its worst criminals there lol. Everyone besides them is leaving reddit to make the same communities elsewhere without these types of people ruining the mood.

Reddit has become so toxic over the last couple of years, I have yet to see that level of toxicity on these other sites even with the great migration, but maybe I haven't been around long enough.

[–] Zansacu 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This shit right here is why I don't want to see votes on Jerboa. Bloody depressing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I wonder where do these people come from? The subs I frequented did ask whether they should participate in the blackout. People are either indifferent or are supportive of it. No outright hostility or bootlicking the Reddit admins.

Not too sound elitist but I'm sure these are newer Reddit users who are unaware 3rd party apps were the only way to browse Reddit on mobile before the official came out in ~2016.

Or maybe they're so deprived of their precious content that they began to lash out at the very people who helped their favourite subs not turn into crap.

[–] kratoz29 1 points 2 years ago

At this point it is hard to me to detect if these are just bots or trolls.

[–] designated_fridge -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can definitely get annoyed by how black and white everything always has to be on the internet.

Can I be upset that Reddit is killing my 3rd party app? Absolutely Can I also realise that Reddit is not a charity and that in this economy, they are no longer going to subsidize 3rd party app developers? Absolutely

Like, I left Reddit because I think their official app sucks balls. I had a 3rd party app I loved. I'm upset. But it's also weird to see Meta, Alphabet, Spotify, Amazon, etc. lay off their staff and at the same time expect Reddit to willingly hand their content over for free to 3rd party apps.

I'm upset but I'm not naïve.

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[+] lanolinoil -7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm sorry. I'm here and done with Reddit too, but it's not a public service. They're well within their rights to do this and even more anti user stuff, which they will, but that's not immoral or against the law.

This is why we have laws against Monopoly. All these people thinking there should be laws and rules for how businesses should steward their free user base is pretty wild to me.

Public services are run by the public for the public good (ha -- supposed to be) and businesses make money. Reddit isn't PBS or your local library and would you really even want that?

We just did this with Facebook exodus right? "You mean _we're _ the product????"

[–] hydra 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem is when private services invite and lure people in by emulating public places of speech and then start exploiting them. What they did and keep doing is wrong, underhanded and you shouldn't defend their privilege to exist.

[–] lanolinoil 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah -- You just leave though, not try to eradicate 'their privilege to exist'

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