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That quote grind my gears.

Reddit was profitable, then they took more funding and massively hired.

Profitability is a choice by the executives.

I'd say what went wrong was nobody did anything meaningfuk or cared. Nobody put their money where their mouth is and deleted their accounts, and staying off the site for 2 days was too much to ask of >80% of the users.

The Mods closed a few subs but didn't themselves do anything meaningful. They should have let reddit replace them if they actually cared. They should have moved their community to lemmy or kbin. The ones who did sick it out I'm grateful for, the rest cared too much about their own pride to bother trying to keep the admins in check.

Overall the reddit userbase since the pandemic are mostly entitled whiners who don't really give a shit as long as they get their twitter and TikTok reposts. There's literally only one piece of OC on the frontpage of reddit right now. There's not much value to going there anymore.

I'm done with Reddit, and honestly I haven't missed it. My time is now more full of hobbies and actual reading, I'm better off for deleting it.

My gut says this is an effort to make employees feel good after layoffs and protests, but also this looks to be someone to juice the monthly active users metric before an IPO roadshow or fundraising or something.

Ironically /r/place would be a good opportunity to win users to the official app, they probably should have done that before the API price changes to shake the tree of third party apps, so to speak.

Anyways, this is going to be 80% "fuck /u/spez" memes, a German flag, the Apollo logo, and a perfect OSU game logo.

I almost decided to make an account just to participate in the new /r/place, but then I would be supporting Reddit.

Hopefully this gets public services off twitter.

There's no reason my local fire department or mayor should only be accessible by giving a foreign (to me) company my info and money.

The second golden age of the internet is officially over.

Unfortunately the golden age was just a mirage, it was actually VC funds killing the ecosystem and offering impossible free services for over a decade.

We'll see if the internet can rebuild, but under the weight of spam and regulation and habit and clout chasing I'm not sure.

I don't think the quality of the front page changed all that much in the last month.

It has long been screenshots of twitter (primarily WhitePeopleTwitter, BlackPeopleTwitter) for years, at least since 2016.

Also short form video is all the rage and Reddit is really pushing it, but that basically means it's just all TikTok re-uploads (or crops of TikTok, or crops of TikTok of crops of Youtube). The new Reddit video player is really mostly screen recordings of things.

The last year or two once Reddit became really really mainstream has had a lot more repost bots though. They basically do two things: farm small subs and repost their content into larger ones, or pull content from the front page from 6+ months ago and repost it (even the top comments are often blatantly reposted). The bots coincide with reddit getting more into ads and mainstream advertisers.

But, there have been prolific reposters like Gallowboob for many many years.

If I hadn’t deleted my accounts, this us what I’d have done.

Go to Namecheap (or similar) and buy a domain, then your email provider will give you two things to paste into their settings, and then shortly after that your custom domain will be online. It’s very easy.

Why use a custom domain? your email is the base of your digital identity and online security, owning your email is a huge improvement in security.

If you ever want to change email providers you can easily import your mail to any provider and you don’t have to update any websites or setup forwarding. You can also setup unlimited catch all emails.

The main example I point to is if you get banned from Google and use gmail then you lose access to all your accounts. Google has no customer service so you’re cooked if that happens. Or if you use your email through your ISP then you can never switch and they can charge you higher prices knowing this.

It isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, it’s more expensive, not all email providers allow custom domains and they may charge more for them, and you still need a secondary backup email in case you ever lose access to your domain.

There’s also the threat of someone scooping your domain, so buy it for a very long period with auto renewal enabled, transfer lock on, and WHOIS protection on. The threat is low but even Google has forgotten to renew their domains.

Personally, I think it’s worth paying for.

I still check in on my local subreddit, but I don’t participate.

That still makes it impossible for a user to ever delete all their comments, which is the CCPA complaint

What’s the name for the artist who made that picture?

I g Abe one, none of your issues.

Dead zones on sticks are good, no drift, everything is fine on mine.