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ah, Phoenix is that you?
It’s really amazing to see the incompetence of Huffman. As the CEO, it’s his responsibility continue to drive his company while being committed to its values. They’ve lost touch with what made reddit special in favor for the lowest common denominator user base.
Reddit has three real function, first as a cultivated collection of subreddits, second as a warehouse of incredibly niche and specific information, and lastly as a place to scroll.
They’ve catered to this third audience which I see as the most shallow of user. This part of their function can be easily replaced by plenty of other services. With such tone-deaf and dishonest actions of spez, it’s obvious there was no foresight on trying to set up a smooth transition.
There absolutely could have been a solution here to generate income for Reddit without coming to this painful nuclear ending. It’s been writing on the wall for a while with the stretch toward IPO that their motives and value had become entirely based on money.
See that’s not how companies work though. They may need to be profitable to exist but they exist to provide a service or product. By sacrificing and disenfranchising a loyal core of your user base out of lack of foresight and problem solving, this is just another nail in the coffin of their inevitable demise.
Huffman is a loser and a sell out. Get fucked Spez.
Welcome! I am a brand new user and refuge from Reddit. So glad to have you and thank you for your work.
forum works, board also works. Instances are new to me and interesting.
100% and they also didn’t need to be total tools about it. giving a month window is a joke, being snarky assholes answering AMAs, telling their user base that profitability is the only thing that matters to them.
Surprising nobody, Reddit continues to make really awful business decisions. This is just another nail in their coffin.
Been rotating D4 and TOTK! It’s not a bad time to be alive
Thanks for this write-up! I saw some people playing demos on Tiktok live and thought it was a sequel to Bloodborne. Excited for anything that falls into this genre especially with that setting.
I really think we need like a one image description of how to make an account. Something that could be posted and cross posted to Reddit, all the steps, what an instance is, what the communities are, how to sign up for the iOS and Android apps!
