If you do not want to see Reddit crash and burn then why are you on a Reddit spin off site? The peoples view on Reddit, left and right, black and white, women and man, trans and straight. EVERYONE HATES REDDIT. It has become a symbol for the technocrat arrogance of Silicon Valley, it started as a company that allowed literally anything from child abuse to beheadings and whole bunch of other heinous shit, and they have been trying to sanitize the front page with bleach for years while sweeping all the problematic shit that doesn’t get noticed under the rug. Reddit is no different from any other social media website (besides lemmy, luv u lemmy). Today it’s Reddit going on the stock market, tomorrow it’s discord, how long until the people who idolize Patrick Bateman are trading in 4chan stock? Reddit can go two ways, it either can die a slow painful death like tumblr which is preferable because that would force people to migrate to new social media sites, or it can go like Twitter and become the mouthpiece of some asshole billionaire.

If anyone has any idea of how the internet could do some collective action to make Reddit eat shit please, share them. My idea is we should write to the advertisers and complain about the mods and try to get those two groups to fight each other, causing the site to implode.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Reddit's IPO will fail miserably because it's an unprofitable company built on massive contradictions that will only worsen with the demands of public ownership. It's going to kill the website in a fundamental way, simultaneously hitting the mods and users while the tanking stock price infuriates their most loyal ones. The only question is whether or not the IPO has an initial price bubble for zero rational reason beyond name recognition. There might be a week or two where people can pump and dump before the reality of it sets in.

    Just wait for the price to crash and then jump in the threads about it to advocate for another mod strike. The whole website implodes when you pit shareholders against their all-volunteer labour base and the company has a legal obligation to maximise profits for the shareholders. There is no way they can resolve that contradiction. Everything they do will hurt them more and make it worse.