“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.
“FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN” is a clear, actionable statement that has a clear target and goal and actually has meaning to people who don’t know what Reddit is (like say, a potential shareholder or investor)
Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree
STOP trying to convince yourself that this is a saveable situation START getting on with life away from Reddit
The biggest thing to do, if you don’t want to delete your reddit account, is to log out (and remove the saved login in the browser).
You’ll be surprised how much your monkey brain resists logging back in once it is, well, “effort”.
Sorry but as someone who can no longer use Reddit I can’t say I “resist” wanting to use it back
Reddit is a hell of a drug
For me, I replaced the reddit (infinity) location on my phone with Lemmy. It’s worked well so far, I just end up opening Lemmy instead. Still haven’t found a great alternative to adding “site:reddit.com” to the end of some internet searches yet.
Give it time. As more people use lemmy and contribute more information and knowledge, it will eventually be good enough that you can search it for information and real answers. Hopefully.
Yes, I mean it’s pretty much a sunk cost fallacy at this point. Just cut your losses and move on (in this case, to Lemmy).
Exactly, I had a 15years old account. I came over here, as I saw that they were not gonna change their mind. The communities have grown a lot. Nopoint looking back.
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Ellen Pao was actually right though. The attacks on her came from the far right and redditors lapped that shit up because reddit was (and still is) a misogynistic shithole. Her biggest crime was… Closing /r/fatpeoplehate.
If she’d stayed on Reddit wouldn’t have helped qanon, wouldn’t have helped cause theredpill movement, wouldn’t have caused the_donald, wouldn’t have caused a shit load of bad things.
Comparing Huffman to her is absurd. Huffman is a far right prepper. She is as far as I can tell a pretty well-meaning liberal, as far as tech CEOs go anyway, which is unusual given that the vast majority of CEOs in tech them are far right crypto bro libertarian fuckheads.
Misogynistic shithole my ass. There’s some misogynists there, but my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr.
Depends a lot on which subreddits you frequented. Some subreddits were alright, but many of the largest ones would frequently have uncontested ableism and transphobia.
Yeah, a good part of that was because I stayed out of the right-wing cesspits, while taking far too long to leave the left-wing ones, so most of the cess I got was left cess.
The only exception was PCM (joined when it was merely right-leaning and not particularly PC, rather than the outright hive of scum and villainy it became), and there, it was far from progressive.
What does misogyny have to do with disabled or trans people? Other than the fact that around 1/2 are women?
The comment above mentioned progressivism in general
my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr
Since you’re asking, I find that blatant transphobia also tends to go hand in hand with some sort of sexism, but that’s an unrelated point.
Sorry, I skipped the progressivism part.
Honestly I think the best course of action is just to let them stew. We should be rallying for spez to make worse decisions and more often. Let nature take its course.
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Reddit will never be super happy and wonderful again. People’s faith in the brand has been pretty much shattered at this point. I have no intention of going back there whatever they do at this point. I think a lot of people who have left feel that way.
I’m on Lemmy now. It’s way better. I’m over Reddit.
I think the only real strategy the new owners can follow at this point is to gradually turn it into an edgier version of Facebook and fill it full of people who’ve never actually used Reddit before and have no idea what it was like before Huffman ruined it.
how about we stop talking about reddit and enjoy lemmy instead?
I agree, but, you know… This community is called “Reddit”.
Yeah i was going to comment something about stop giving reddit clicks but then i saw the community
This definitely has a lot to improve, specially in the interface part
Still, it has a lot of potential
Agreed Reddit is dead to most here this is nonsense posting, kicking a dead horse
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Immutably based.
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I said bye, now I say “Lemmy’s pretty cool”.
It’s pretty rad, much happier here just miss my larger communities
We’ll get them back. Just be patient
“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.
And "Fire Steve Huffman means absolutely nothing to anyone who doesn’t know reddit CEO’s name.
I’ll go for an easier one: Fuck reddit, join lemmy. Easy and clear, and I’m not sure reddit would get any better with its CEO fired, they’ll likely find someone similar.
just stop using reddit and move to alternative site like lemmy.
Did that. Still really want to see Steve Huffman fired. And hopefully humiliated and shunned.
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Reddit should die. And people should come here. I want more instances and communities developing here. Right now I have to hope between reddit and here for some communities. Steve Huffman can go and suck dick.
He does not deserve dick, he should suck a cactus!
But not one of those super spiky ones, but the ones that have tiny hairs that are impossible to get out of your skin when you accidentally touch the cactus and hurt everytime you bump them wrong.
If you look into the history of “fuck /u/Spez” this is the comment(s) that he edited way back when. It’s an eternal reminder of the bullshit that he’s pulled in the past. The Streisand Effect in all its glory.
If you’re going to say anything, help guide folks out of the dumpster fire. Direct some more content this way.
Who gives a fuck what happens to / what people think of Reddit’s CEO.
I swear some Lemmy users are worse than that overly attached gf meme.
Get off Reddit and stop talking about reddit.
Uhm, you see in what community you posted this ?
The best thing to do, is ignoring r/place. If we give reddit our attention they can continue, if not they’re nothing.
yeah. totally gonna fix reddit but posting shit on it.
I’d rather just say to migrate to Lemmy, there’s always going to be a Steve Huffman, but with Lemmy it’s either impossible or incredibly difficult.
The one thing Musk and Spez have successfully done is make themselves scapegoats that leave people believing that everything will be resolved once they leave, so people have hope since there’s a “clear solution.”
These issues run much deeper than the individual owners and CEOs though, it’s the rot of the companies and platforms themselves, and getting rid of those people will solve absolutely nothing.
What needs to happen is for people to just switch off and help grow alternative platforms away from corporate meddling. Will it ever become mainstream? Maybe not, but it will never happen if people never try and just give up.
All of these issues are symptoms of our short sighted, quarterly profits driven, capitalist freight train of an economic system.
