This place is a cult and I’m definitely proud to be part of it.
like a multimillion dollar corporation needs you poor mf’s to simp for it. Bruh. Let them burn. Spez is ridiculously self absorbed, to the point of creating his own self-fellating subreddit populated with bots praising him.
Ya know, this whole situation has me thinking about stuff - very dangerous. But it seems like this API move kills a few birds with one stone for the corporate Reddit:
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They lose all or most of the people that were there since the early days, so you will have less resistance to corporate shitting on users in the future.
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These people leaving probably removes a large chunk of trolls that fuck with the casual Reddit user - ya know, the gal that didn’t even know there was another mobile app besides the official one.
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Those casual users probably don’t know much about ad-block.
I guess all that is to say: They’re probably not burning, they’re probably excited the way things are going. They can better package and sell the ever more homogenized, terrible, boring, disney-ad reddit.
My mom finally got on Reddit, it’s going to be the next Facebook
As soon as the parents join, it’s time to start looking for a new site
Exactly. It’s a calculated move for sure, but they’ve built up enough of a mainstream base of newer people because they don’t know any different from the bullshitery that they’ve been fed
I doesn’t matter to me if Reddit survives. I was looking to move away, but there wasn’t a good alternative. With this move by reddit, the types I would get along with are leaving in mass.
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That’s called Stockholm syndrome
Why do people describe Reddit as a community anyways? It’s a corporation, Lemmy is a community.
I was never a Blizzard player, but saw how spineless the players were when they tried staging a boycott. I swore I would never be that type and here I am.
Everyone sees the other group as a cult, no matter contest.
Othering is a very dangerous tool.
Whats that thing that happens where people begin to defend/ protect their kidnappers or abuser?
stockholm syndrome
Fun fact: the incident that “Stockholm Syndrome” is named after turns out to not actually be a case of Stockholm Syndrome. The hostages were only sympathetic towards the hostage takers because of the incredibly poor handling by authorities. One of the hostages was working on establishing a rapport with the hostage taker, but she was constantly undermined by aggressive tactics by the police, including reckless usage of guns that could have killed the hostages.
Government.
