• ANGRY_MAPLE
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    1 year ago

    I’m sticking to lemmy at this point because of the principal.

    I may only be one person out of millions, but I’m not giving reddit a lick of traffic unless Spez publicly acknowledges and apologizes to the dev for the false accusations, and to it’s communities.

    I figure, if my time on reddit is a just drop in the bucket, people should have no room to be angry with me if I leave reddit permanently. If the user base is so unimportant, reddit shouldn’t miss us when we go. If the CEO is going to imply that people will get attacked by us for wearing reddit merch, then I want NOTHING to do with that platform.

    People are hilarious if they think that reddit will suddenly stop it’s shenanigans at removing 3rd party apps. When they go public, you can probably kiss most of your favourite content goodbye.

    It’s ironic too, because certain specific communities who are angry at the blackout will probably truly lose free speech when reddit goes public. Everything will likely have to be very suitable to advertisers and whoever has a stake in ownership.

    • SomethingsVichy@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I agree. Reddit has been pushing me away since they did away with the one-time purchase premium account I had, then started implementing loads of ads into everything. Good riddance.