In the last 3 days I’ve been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and…

Yeah

Wasn’t expecting the website to literally shut down nor to monopolize r/all, because 3rd party users are the minority, but I hoped for more than whatever this was.

At least there’s a silver lining, I discovered new alternatives that have healthier communities

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    Reddit isn’t going to disappear, but that doesn’t mean it won’t die. Going public will kill Reddit. The parent company isn’t profitable, and the product isn’t profitable, and public investors will only tolerate that if growth suggests future gains.

    Those future gains will be had by strangling Reddit and twisting its corpse into something much less useful, interesting, and fun.

    Reddit’s animated corpse will carry on for years, but that IPO will be a poisoned pill for what we know and recognize as Reddit.

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      So how do we stop that happening here? Do we just bounce between admins as they eventually can’t pay for their servers?

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        Support your admins, if you can. But yes, bouncing around will happen. Hopefully with added development support coming from an expanded userbase, account migration can be implemented on both Lemmy and kbin and people can move around with relative ease, as the need or desire strike.

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      They telegraphed this when they started forcing users to look at depressed buskers (in between ads for Jesus and pizza rolls) and making posts scream almost uncontrollably as you scroll by them. It’s like someone really wants sfw OnlyFans, or Twitch without the video games, or YouTube except the content isn’t very curated. Instagram but live? Anything but Reddit.