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Circlebroke (self.circlebroke)

submitted 1 year ago by dhamster to c/circlebroke

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Hey folks, as many of you know by now, reddit is falling into the same accelerating spiral of enshittification as many other for-profit platforms. I'm not going to get into detail about the short-sighted API changes that have, as of today, killed the favorite ways for many to browse reddit on mobile, as they have been discussed to death in other places.

I'd rather not reopen the CB communities on reddit as that would be rewarding the reddit admins for their bad behavior. Instead, I'm going to encourage the community to take a look at Lemmy and other free, open-source alternatives to reddit. For 11 years, circlebroke has been (ironically) complaining about reddit on reddit. Maybe it's time to break that cycle. Or we can just start complaining about Lemmy on Lemmy, who knows.

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[–] Anathema 3 points 1 year ago

Alright pal I'm here and ready to complain, but I still ain't joining the discord.

[–] naud 2 points 1 year ago

summerbroke finally won

[–] Borovicka 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weren't we dead anyway ever since that one summer when the mods decided to close the sub for 3 months as a prank?

[–] dhamster 1 points 1 year ago

CB prime is well past it's glory days, but Circlebroke2 has been fairly active in comparison.

[–] deleigh 2 points 1 year ago

The only reddit I’ve known is a reddit run by goobers, so nothing bad that happens to that site ever surprises me.

I’ve accepted long ago that I’m not their target audience. If they want to run it into the ground chasing every popular fad from every social network, then that’s what they’ll get: a second-rate copycat.

The only person who ran reddit that I had any positive view of was Ellen Pao and it’s not a coincidence that’s she’s only person who isn’t a shitty brogrammer. Without its people, reddit is nothing. They’ve never understood that no matter how many times they’ve been told. I only hope it sticks around so it can continue to lose money. When VC loses, we win.