Spez created Reddit as an open source project
They closed the source code 6 years ago.
The reality for those that have been through the collapse of Digg and now Reddit due to centralized corporate greed: “WE WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN!”
Decentralized and federated is the future. Hopefully it will be a healthier version of social media.
Fool me once,shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on… Me
Fool me thrice… you fooled me I can’t get fooled again!
For-profit is not the future. Commercial platforms aren’t the future. Advertising-funded services are all doomed to fail eventually Enshitification is inevitable when the fundamental purpose of the site is commerce.
At least as it is now, fediverse is all cooperative and user-funded. That will be what protects it from going down the same road. Whether it can permanently survive that way I do not know. As soon as any major instance turns to advertising to pay the bills, the entire space is in deep and terrible danger.
People just need to understand that they are going to have to abandon communities.
uffda.
I’ve been on reddit an embarrassingly long time. From before the rapist thread to violentacrez facilitating abhorrent things.
Lemmy certainly seems less abhorrent and also a bit of a difficult learning curve.
Maybe the curve will keep the trolls out of here… It’s a bit like using Linux. Almost all people you interact with are nice and intelligent since you need to be a certain kind of personality to even be interested in learning it.
When something becomes mainstream popular, corporations will stripmine the value and the experience will worsen significantly.
I’m not necessarily nice, just not a dick.
Not really intelligent, I just smash my head against the wall until things work.
But fuck big corporations.
Remember when Reddit was the free software alternative?
They had one founder who actually believed in that, he left in 2007 and is now deceased. (RIP) But they’ve been milking it ever since.
Huffman and Ohanian are both Y Combinator grifter types, Ohanian also happens to be married to Serena Williams yet rather than being content to live off his extremely wealthy wife’s money he’s spent the last few years touting crypto scams.
Oh shit, I thought spez was the one who married the tennis she-hulk.
Yeah Aaron swartz was internet believer. Fun y how people like him get targeted.
Fuck MIT.
I’m never going back. Changing that to a non-zero chance would depend on spez getting the boot.
This photo makes him look like the terrorist from Contact.
Jake Busey can totally play Spez in the future Apple TV+ movie about the collapse of reddit.
Yikes. I’m barely gonna check Reddit.
I checked Reddit today. Of course from old reddit. It’s literally crap. Not cause I hate reddit now but the first 50 some frontpage subs just sucked. I’m glad I deleted my account
