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[-] z3n0x@feddit.de 71 points 1 year ago

I always though that Reddit admins of all people would understand that “you don’t mess with Reddit”. Well, apparently not …

[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 60 points 1 year ago

Seeing how the vast majority of people stayed and are gladly participating in reddits PR event, I think it's fair to say that messing with reddit can be fine.

[-] LemmyAtem@beehaw.org 69 points 1 year ago

The strange thing about reddit refugees on Lemmy is that they have this weird sense that the platform they left actually died when they did so. The trith is that the vast majority did not migrate and are happily eating their spoonfed shit.

When we say it's dead, we mean what is used to be is dead. But let's not pretend the site actually died or is no longer working. We can all (justifiably) think it's a shit filled shell of it's former self without being in denial.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

I'm a refugee, but I have no illusion about my value to Reddit (or how much my absence will be noticed - barely at all if at all)

I think, for some of us, it's not like "the platform will die"; it's "I left the circus. No longer my deal". Thrive, falter .. it's no longer our business; and that's freeing.

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 21 points 1 year ago

A quick reminder to everyone that MySpace still exists.

Just because the link doesn't 404 doesn't mean that something ain't dying or dead.

[-] termus@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

They've been propping up Myspace's corpse like Weekend at Bernie's since 2008. I feel like they're trying to do the same thing now with the new version WinAmp. They're dead to me.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Just like digg is still "working", dying takes time.

[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's absolutely wild. I saw this meme the other day: https://jlai.lu/post/86996

Some people have lost all grip on reality.

But Facebook and Twitter still exist

[-] vmachiel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I left Reddit not because it was dying but because it started to change into something that wasn’t for me. It has always changed, but the third party app thing made me realize it was time to move on.

I don’t care what reddits owners do with the platform, I’m just glad to be here now.

[-] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago

As others have pointed out in other posts, they are using Spez as an escape-goat. It makes total sense. Once they get rid of Spez, their policies will remain and the hate will no longer have a tangible target.

[-] Zyansheep@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago
[-] pazukaza@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's the spirit.

[-] db2@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

If he hadn't always been a shithead, maybe. What he's doing now is the same as he's always done, just more of it and he no longer has a handler to tell him to knock it off.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Some months in the future...

u/notspez: "Hello Reddit, this is u/notspez. I'm the new CEO of Reddit. Pic related, it's me. We snoos stand together."

Reddit: "WE DID IT REDDIT! WE DEFEATED SPEZ! REDDIT IS SAVED! WOHOOOO!!!!!!"

...serious now, I agree with you. It's a lot like Ellen Pao, except that spez probably knows that he's being used as scapegoat and he's OK with it. The business itself is rotten, and the very fact that they're giving spez a green card to screw with the userbase shows that anyone who they put in place would be as trashy as him. Fuck spez and fuck Reddit Inc.

[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Escape goatse paints a more vivid picture. The more despicable and hate-able the hate sink, the better it is for the true masters of the realm.

[-] TheLight@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I feel we're selling goatse short - a family man with his wedding ring on full display and ever so polite greeting his visitors with hello.jpg

[-] peyotecosmico@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ellen Pao all over again.

Tripping with the same stone from the guys that mock people who does it...

[-] MidwestMayonaiseSalad@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I’m sad we don’t get to see the end of July valuation until the end of August

[-] Criton@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

An escape goat you say?

[-] MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

"shitweasel" is a great word though. I'm glad I learned it without having to go to reddit. Thanks OP!

[-] relyn@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I really am glad that people are still flaming Reddit but at the same time they are still using the platform which is disappointing. I was really hoping people would accept that Reddit has gone to shit, that there is no going back to the way it was, and to move onto another platform like Lemmy or whatever other alternative.

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~they intentionally will never post anything of value ever again. Their trolling reddit and its IPO. They arent staying. Likely will ghost it once the IPO is complete~~

Edit: i misunderstood you, found somthing that invalidates my words

[-] relyn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wish your original comment was the case but sadly I don’t think that’s the case.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

I remember a few weeks ago, I tried to downvote spez's comments but I repeatedly just got the "failed to downvote comment" message. Coincidence? I think not!

[-] match@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

they'll just replace u/spez and change nothing else

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Here is our new CEO u/spaz

[-] db2@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Baby steps.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

What happened in r/place now?

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

Admins seem to be removing any type of "protest" messages being added to the mural.

[-] Zana@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Did they get rid of all the fuck Spez messages that were all over it? I don't want to go to Reddit to check.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Ah yes because that will make it better

[-] megane_kun@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

IDK what it says about me, but I noticed a subtle(?) nod to ‘one man one jar’ in the portion of the comment chain about sodomizing Steve Huffman with various things.

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

What have they done with place?

[-] db2@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago

They're messing with it even more than last time to the point where it's not even what people are making.

[-] IverCoder@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Fuck u/spez, I will blow it all on your face!

[-] KyRoLen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Fediverse needs some more fault tolerance before it'll grow. Hopefully they eventually implement message queues so moderation decisions that fail to federate eventually will.

[-] Mana@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] substill@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

Original mod of /r/jailbait

[-] athos77@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Technically, I think that was violentacrez, and I'm pretty sure spez was added during that period where you could add anyone as a mod without their knowledge or approval. Which still doesn't excuse spez giving violentacrez a "special award". Fuck /u/spez.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The internet never forgets, spez.

[-] DBT@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Steve Huffman. CEO of dog shit Reddit.

[-] doge_d_aspin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As of Fri Jul 21 17:40:16 EDT 2023 r/place is disturbingly normal,

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[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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u/spez ist ein Hurensohn

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