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- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 39•8 months ago
They are about 2 years too late.
The rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually need to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.
The IPO will not go as spez dreamed for so long.
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English3•8 months ago
It would be such a pity if it turns out the protests caused him to miss the good window.
- Max-P ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) 28•8 months ago
Time to fire up the protests again and shut down major subreddits again.
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 26•8 months ago
Honestly, why bother?
Management has been wanting to cash out for a decade.
The IPO will go ahead, the reddit of the days of yore is dead. It will not improve.
The horse is dead, beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.
No matter what you feel about the place it was never going to go any other way.
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•8 months ago
It’s like thinking one final shopping spree at Toys’R’Us would have stopped the hedge fund flunkies from siphoning every last cent out of the company.
They already made the decision. The data doesn’t matter (much like the Work From Home / Return To Office fight) and the decision has been made to squeeze profits until it is bled dry.
They never really cared how the userbase was going to feel about it.
- Kbin_space_program ( @Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 6•8 months ago
A new protest and shutdown would be to get it into the media eye in a bad light. Not actually do anything of importance to the site.
After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 7•8 months ago
After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.
And because it is a 24 hour cycle, the scandal will be forgotten and replaced with a new one in the same amount of time.
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 5•8 months ago
…beating it will just make you hot, sweaty and your arm sore.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 1•8 months ago
Are we still doing phrasing?
- TigrisMorte ( @TigrisMorte@kbin.social ) 3•8 months ago
Going to be a whole new world of monetization to satisfy the share holders.
- sour ( @sour@kbin.social ) 7•8 months ago
no
uploadings 1gb noise video better
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 14•8 months ago
I give it 2 months before they axe or further cripple old.reddit prior to IPO, should give Lemmy another wave of new users.
- stallmer ( @stallmer@sopuli.xyz ) English2•8 months ago
If I were them I would definitely keep it up at least until the IPO so they can still count that traffic.
- belated_frog_pants ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) 13•8 months ago
Im sure content will just exponentially increase in quality once the only thing that is important is “stonks go up”.
- Faceman🇦🇺 ( @Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•8 months ago
A certain Steve miller band song comes to mind.
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 6•8 months ago
Take The Money and Run?
I was thinking more along the lines of: The Gambler
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away and know when to run
Except they should have walked away about 4 years ago…when their chip stack was a much larger pile. Now they are trying to run with what they have left.
- Truck_kun ( @Truck_kun@beehaw.org ) English3•8 months ago
I think this is a great time for remaining Reddit users to do a 3 month Reddit detox.
- BarrierWithAshes ( @BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ) 2•8 months ago
Oh man. This is gonna be fun. I already got all the stuff I need off the site. I can’t wait.
- Jo Miran ( @JoMiran@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months ago
Puts on that IPO.