To some degree it's hard to be sympathetic, because the people complaining about this are seriously lacking in sympathy themselves. They just wanted to see the content that those users produced for them, they didn't care about the difficulties or preferences of the users themselves. So when those Spez-opposed users took their ball and went home the Spez-friendly people got angry at them for taking their comments away with them rather than at Spez for having driven them to that in the first place.
Given how Reddit has responded to the whole API, community-mods, etc. fiasco, I felt like they're doing some of the more effective things in not only destroying their communities but also their IPO valuation....
Farewell Baconreader. It's been a wonderful 11 years. (media.kbin.social)
Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)
The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,...
It's over - Sync for Reddit is offline (media.kbin.social)
Well, it happened a bit earlier than I expected but I'm officially here now. Hello friends 👋 (media.kbin.social)
Reddit seems to be speedrunning 'self-destruct and devalue IPO'. What would be Reddit's next worst steps?
Given how Reddit has responded to the whole API, community-mods, etc. fiasco, I felt like they're doing some of the more effective things in not only destroying their communities but also their IPO valuation....
what are the best Lemmy subs across the fediverse?
I'm new here. I'm using connect for Lemmy on Android....
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B (techcrunch.com)
Reddit is running out of patience with protesting moderators (qz.com)
Moderators who refuse to reopen their subreddits were given an ultimatum