Honest I’m happy all this has happened. It helped me out of my reddit addiction. Helped me realise there are alternatives out there that are way less toxic (in my opinion) and much more closely resemble the old school forums that are what I originally became addicted to via reddit etc.

The effect has been fairly small, but the effect itself is not even the thing that’s going to get Huffman’s nuts in a vice when the IPO comes. The thing that’s going to ruin him is the awareness now that poorly received changes can cause chaos to the functioning of the site. That’s not the case with social media sites like Facebook, or even Twitter for that matter. Those don’t rely intrinsically on the agreeable participation of unpaid labor (Reddit mods), so Zuckerberg and (to a lesser degree) Musk can run around naked with their balls out all they want and it won’t move the needle that much. But when Huffman does it, there’s thousands of angry people ready with clamps and gelding equipment.

It has weight when real shops up and move out. I knew the Twitter diaspora was real when big news agencies like NPR and PBS jumped. I canceled my twitter and I had it since the start. I had gone with reddit a long… since digg… I feel like it’s quitting cigarettes… I’m breaking thru the fog only now. I will be interested on Jun 30 when all the 3rd party apps stop. But I haven’t deleted RIF yet… hard to drop what I paid for.

My usage has plummeted. I go here almost every time instead.

Honestly don’t know, but is spez also following Twitter in letting go of many employees? A lot of the backlash to Twitter came from that. He’s been saying that they aren’t profitable and their cost per API call for third party apps implies that they are running a pretty inefficient ship…