I mentioned yesterday that a Lemmy dev was busy plugging Lemmy in the Apollo thread about :reddit-logo:'s API pricing. The reddit admins r/apolloapp mods went and deleted 118 of their 120 comments:
As you can see on Lemmy dev parentis_shotgun's profile, they were very active plugging Lemmy and answering questions in the Apolo dev's thread about Reddit's API pricing, with 120 total comments made in that post.
They were well-received, with 3 of their comments getting over 400 upvotes. However,
reddit adminsr/apolloapp mods must have noticed that reddit is bleeding users to Lemmy, because all but 2 of parentis_shotgun's 120 comments (one about Beehaw and one about Microsoft) in that thread are removed.
:reddit-logo: knows its days are numbered, their IPO later this year will fall flat on its face
Edit: Someone @ImOnADiet on Lemmygrad says it was just r/apolloapp mods
Edit 2: @dessalines posted about it
The only :freeze-peach: :reddit-logo: ever truly fought for on its own principles was /r/jailbait :libertarian-alert:
Stand up for what you believe in
:speech-l:
:libertarian-approaching:
their IPO later this year will fall flat on its face
don't underestimate the power of terminally bazinga-brained techbro "investors" who'll eat that shit up
Tech is drying up ATM, which is why there's layoffs all over the place. They shoulda done it in 2021.
Where is reddit's room for growth, too? It's not anywhere near a hot new social media site, and the changes it's making to get ready for this IPO are negatively impacting their existing users. It's a mature site that's hacking away at what it has.
hopefully but i don't think reddit is really an economically valuable platform, it might be a (disaster or renaissance) for free speech and open discussion if it falls.
A little more from the reddit API drama. Lemmygrad has 109 users online currently, compared to ~75 users yesterday (and HexBear has 447 users online currently). If they keep growing, maybe they'll be worth federating.
Edit: But Lemmy.ml is ~600 users online currently
Damn, was hexbear always this much busier than lemmy or was it only after the r/GZD ban and exodus to here (and many other places)?
It's hard to say, they used to count every tab as an active user so at some point we had "thousands" lol. It kinda feels like it's been the same amount, some leave some join.
Wow, it looks like https://lemmy.ml/ is much more active now. Only 586 users online currently, but there were well over 600 earlier (and Lemmy.ml has passed Lemmygrad on https://join-lemmy.org/instances to take the #1 spot)
I'm happy they're doing well. One day we'll upgrade our potato servers and re-federate, though I wouldn't say no to deleting superfluous posts over time(you could tag a post as important and it would get perma saved and you could reference it, but most chatting and riffing would disappear after a month or two).
you could tag a post as important
you can't ATM, but it would be nice!
:reddit-logo: :valuation sliced by 41% :farquaad-point: !
Yeah, apparently r/apolloapp mods banned @dessalines for self-promo
VC money dried up and the founders want an "exit point" aka lottery money to sell out their baby. You'd think the ads and :reddit-logo: :cryptocurrency: would be "enough", but :porky-happy: is never satisfied. They want to be all billionaires like the PayPal Mafia. All their "friends" are doing it. :powercry-2: It just isn't fair to settle the lowly life of a 100 millionaire.
God forbid you make a consistent profit year after year. No no, it always has to be bigger. That can definitely continue forever don’t worry about it.
Why they're doing an IPO, you mean? There don't seem to be any multibillionaires obsessed with with reddit the way Musk is with twitter, it's just the logical conclusion of every business to eat itself in pursuit of capital
Ohhhh do y'all smell another CENSORSHIP panic on the front page of :reddit-logo: ??? Let's go boyeeeeeee
