• fivezero@lemmy.worldOP
    126·
    1 year ago

    Looks like r/programming discovered the astroturfing, so in true Reddit fashion they simply shut down the subreddit entirely to avoid the spread of negative public sentiment. Thanks for galvanizing my resolve to migrate to the fediverse, Spez

      • fivezero@lemmy.worldOP
        36·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. For years I had truly (and naively) believed that Reddit, despite their prior blunders with which we are now all mostly familiar, would maintain an acceptable level of decency and never push things so far as alienate their core userbase. Shot themselves squarely in the foot on this one I think, as their recent changes affect so many.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.world
          44·
          1 year ago

          What a bummer.

          I’m doing ok without it though. I didn’t load old.reddit once today.

          I probably won’t tomorrow.

          I used to look at Reddit in almost all of my downtime at work. Now I’m trying to write when I see nothing new is coming up on Lemmy.

          Still though. 15 years on Reddit. Goddamn. It definitely bums me out. I mean, it’s just a website, but it has helped shape so much of who I am.

          I’m an atheist in the Bible Belt for example, and atheism being a default sub back in the day really helped me out a lot.

          All things must pass.

          • Neato@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            I spend my work downtime the 1 day I have to be in office writing dnd campaign material to save my prep time at home.

          • CmdrModder@fedia.io
            4·
            1 year ago

            I understand your pain with that last point. Being an atheist teen in a family that highly values religious holidays (and more) is a life experience I hope people don’t have to go through.

            Things got better, as I hope things are well for you.

          • eleitl@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m waiting for my data takeout, so checking old.reddit.com messages once a day. No other engagement beyond that. Lemmy communities are getting really good now.

        • Razputinsgirth@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          But that’s just the dig they did make horrible decisions that fucked Reddit up. But the 3rd party apps fixed most of those problems. Whenever I look at new Reddit it’s literally so much harder and spammy to use. For year’s now

        • coyootje@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          It feels more like grabbing 2 shotguns and blasting both feet off at the same time. Unless their goal was to sink Reddit at record speed I have no idea what they’re doing…

      • Hypx@kbin.social
        23·
        1 year ago

        It’s truly amazing. Even people who knew that Reddit was destined to fail someday, wouldn’t have predict it happening so fast.

          • FaceDeer@kbin.social
            6·
            1 year ago

            There’s also the Ernest Hemmingway quote from The Sun Also Rises:

            “How did you go bankrupt?"

            “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

            • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
              13·
              1 year ago

              Sorry to do that, but I believe the world makes a lot more sense when viewed through the lens of punctuated equilibrium. It does not make things better, just makes the chaos more understandable.

              The dot com bubble.

              The housing bubble.

              Basically every economic bubble all the way back to tulip mania.

              The Arab Spring.

              The changes in the USA post 9/11.

              And most disturbing of all, the recent rapid swing of pretty much all environmental indicators into uncharted territory. Our biosphere may be heading into a phase of rapid change.

              • Neato@kbin.social
                8·
                1 year ago

                Nobody wants to change. It’s hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.

        • niktemadur@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Like with Twitter, it’s a rapid-fire series of knee-jerk reactions, like a hammer, as in - “When you are a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”, destined to get caught, to not fix what you were supposedly trying to fix, to generate deeper and more baffling situations in the process, to fail.

    • RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Shut down, you say? Every subreddit should post such truths, you say? Reddit will atomize itself instantly, you say?

      Okay, maybe not but it’s a fun thought, no?

    • BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      r/programming was one of the earliest subreddits, I think it was actually #2. Can’t view it anymore, but the moderation team of r/programming would have been pretty reddit admin/staff heavy. Pretty sure spez was listed on the moderation team at one point.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I noticed this happened before the reddit blackouts. I haven’t been to reddit since. Is this a new occurrence of the same ChatGPT astroturfing or is this that same news?