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
Did :melon-musk: promise to buy reddit or something?
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