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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 152 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

CEO Steve Huffman said, "These deals aren't binary. They have to make sense for Reddit, but there are many ways, I think, for the value to return to Reddit."

lol - “The value has left Reddit”
-/u/spez

Who could imagine when you piss off:

  1. third party devs who make the apps your best contributers use
  2. your unpaid content creators
  3. your unpaid moderators

…that the “value” would leave 🤣

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I actually got an award as being in the top 1% of reddit karma earners for 2022.

In 2023 they banned me because I didn't buy stock when it was being introduced.

You'd think they'd want me there. Creating content. For free. I'm sure they thought I'd just create a new account. Nope. I just came here.

Weird thing is, I've had two main running jokes for years. One is being obsessed with corn. The other is calling George Clooney a smug bastard.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

George Clooney really is a smug bastard.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I was also invited to participate in the IPO (in 2024) due to my “top tier” karma.

Didn’t get a ban for not participating but wouldn’t have given a shit if I did.

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

OH NO! CAN'T CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT!!! ThAt'S bAn EvAsIoN!!!! (autistic screeching ensues accompanied by excessive farting noises)

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 21 points 2 hours ago

Reddit never was the same after the whole API/Mod fiasco. Many subreddits simpy died. Old users that made the site what it is left and there were new ones, but the whole vibe shifted.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 57 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Yep, it was the API thing that finally did it for me, but looking back, I should have seen it coming after all of the other stuff.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 26 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

For me it was the way they treated the Apollo developer Christian Selig leading up to the whole API thing. Absolutely heinous.

[–] Trebuchet@europe.pub 2 points 27 minutes ago

Same. Although I'm reading this on Voyager, which has borrowed heavily from Apollo

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Remember when YouTube started having AI narrated posts from r/askreddit in its shorts? And how that slowly morphed into the AI generated slop stories about how one family member give the rest of them their comeuppance because the Henderson account valued results instead of random cheap business practices involving Sgt Menendez and his cheating ex girlfriend?

(This stuff is like candy to Boomers because it mirrors the reader write in sections of Reader's Digest.)

I should have noticed this earlier, but it dawned on me a few weeks back.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 3 hours ago

Third party apps made Reddit a dream on mobile, a big part of its success were the passionate people. And they showed us all the middle finger

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] comador@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago) (1 children)

Thanks!!

....wait its gone :( darn.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

Sorry, was in a hurry to GTFO of work when I posted, but yes, it was a limited run on etsy. I'd reach out to the maker and ask for them to do another run though.

Have an awesome weekend!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 hours ago

And continuously piss off 99.9% of your uses