doctortofu
I feel you - reddit was my daily staple for more than 15 years. Can’t remember exactly, since my account is 15 years, but I browsed without it for a long while before that. And I will miss it, dearly. I’m super sad and angry that spez and the rest of his merry band of morons decided to screw it up this bad. I’ll miss some local communities, some gaming ones, some silly video ones, and just the general feeling that any time I go to the bathroom there’s going to be tons of new content for me to browse through.
Sure this place will grow too, I’m sure of it, but it will take a lot of time. It’s pretty damn hard to change my habits after 15 years - RiF is my most used app BY FAR, and I’m super sad to see it die like this…
The pigheaded doubling- and tripling-down on this is impressive in a way. Let’s see in a couple of months how many actual content creators left reddit and came here or somewhere else. I do hope spez is left with an empty site full of lurkers and bots, after all people who actually provided content for free for years leave him in the dust…
Then again, I’m not going back there anyway, so to be completely honest I don’t care that much - the fediverse is my new home (even though I’m repulsed by the name).
I genuinely and unironically think vandalism like this should be grounds for cancellation of your passport for a while in addition to all other penalties (say, for 5 years). If you can’t play nice, you’re grounded and you don’t get to visit other countries until you grow up.
Rif was reddit for me. It was how I accessed it 99.9% of the time. By far the most used app on all my phones for more than a decade. I’m extremely sad that this is how it dies, but all things must end, it seems. Rest in peace old friend. And rot in pieces reddit, for killing the best goddamned app I’ve ever used…
So like the rest of Amazon then? Never used kindle, but Amazon for physical goods has been a dumpster fire for a while - completely overrun with dropshipped garbage, to the point it’s actually difficult now to find quality stuff in the sea of “brand s” with random string of capital letter names, all using the same poorly photoshopped image…
I’m old enough to remember the peaceful times before video games - there were no wars, no protests, and people were all nice to each other. And then, Pong was released and everything changed…
“We have noticed that by accident we provided a user-friendly functionality without trying to extract money out of you. We apologize for the convenience and promise that we will make sure it never happens again”
Why don’t penalties for fraudulent or criminal practices START at 100% of all revenue generated by such prectices and go up from there? If the only penalty for stealing $1,000 was a $10 fine, I’d just keep stealing - why are companies expected to do otherwise?