I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
I’m mourning the communities i found, but not reddit itself. Spez has been a turd forever. I saw him at a tech inclusion conf like 6-7 years ago and they knew then he was such a shit they didn’t even allow questions from the audience. He said nothing useful and basically said “we keep the donald because both sides” and not so subtly that they keep everyone for add views.
He sucks ass and is only concerned about IPO and will likely just change the r/all to whatever is left and declare the IPO a victory as users bleed away.
Hoping to find more of my old communities around lemmy with hopefully less bigots.
What’s happening is so clearly a money grab. Spez has decided he wants to cash out and there’s no one who can stop him. RIP, Aaron Schwartz.