The funniest parts about Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter all collapsing is they all had to undo ONE decision, and it would've prevented it all.

If Tumblr had gone back, or even just lessened, its porn ban. It could still be in the top 10 sites, worldwide.

If Reddit had reversed its API decision, it wouldn't be struggling with a volatile, unsellable user base.

If Twitter had just not changed ANYTHING. If Musk had just LEFT THE SITE ALONE, it would've begun pulling a profit within a few years, and would've been bringing in enough revenue to keep the site alive until then.

But that didn't happen. These sites were making power hungry moves and chasing the money of advertisers to make up for it. However, each one of them forgot one very important thing:

A sanitized, unpopular website upsets it previous users. Upset users flee a site, leaving angry, volatile individuals behind. Angry, volatile users aren't marketable. Without marketable users, the site has no marketable value. And without marketable value, no advertisers are gonna give you money.

The co-founder of Wikipedia is currently working on a website that appears to be reddit-like in nature.

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1668266400723488769?s=20

Probably nobody that wants to hear this but I am so fucking pissed about reddit killing itself.

Reddit was my favourite place on the entire web. Unlike all the other social media it wasn't about putting individual users on a stage and everyone following them it was simply a shared stage with the users collectively deciding what get's to be in the spotlight.

Yes it was a shithole but it was our shithole. We decided what we got. The algorithm on reddit was utter dogshit and everyone just disabled it, the real algorithm was the hive mind filtering the best content to the top. All the while actual conversation and debate was actually possible because the comments were not arbitrarily limited in length or ordered by what can only be described as little Timmy's first attempt at a Bogosort algorithm.

We had a fucking contract: users bring the content and watch ads, moderators keep the site usable and the amount of effort reddit has to put in to not get sued down to a minimum, all reddit had to do was provide the servers, ban a subreddit once in a blue moon and be content with having a decently profitable site with the factually most worthless users of big social media

But NOOOOO "We NeEd To InCrEaSe PrOfItS! ThOsE pEsKy ThIrD pArTy ApPs ArE sTeAlInG oUr MoNeY" No you idiot they just provided a better service than you did. Why shut them down when you could just copy what they have and make them unnecessary? And then in the process they try to softban nsfw as well because "ItS bAd FoR aDvErTiSmEnT!" god how I fucking hate capitalism.

There's this beautiful thing that people have created in collaboration which brings joy, news, entertainment, education, support and community to so many people and it was ALREADY PROFITABLE but no we need to ruin it to squeeze out as much cash as possible.

Fuck all those people who helped build the website and make it what it is today, fuck all the users who contributed it and spent sleepless nights to make some dumb pixel art bringing your shitty ass website into the news all across the globe fuck all the moderators who spent countless hours doing unpaid labour to keep a community they loved alive and saving you billions in moderation costs, fuck everyone that loves this website

BECAUSE WE WANT MORE MONEY!

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell and for reddit the diagnosis is terminal.

Sure tumblr got twitterified but look what they did to fucking reddit

My homepage looks normal but when I go to a subreddit I'm greeted with this monstrosity.

RIP reddit I guess.

On the one hand, Elon Musk has utterly mangled one of the most important social media sites, arguably irreparably, and has set such a terrible precedent that other wannabee tech moguls like Steve Huffman and All Those Hollywood Execs[TM] are emboldened to make the most stupid possible decisions without hesitation, further worsening the media landscape

On the other hand, now I can look at Musk stans and shit on them without hesitation, because it takes more than just having annoying personality to look at everything he's done in the past few years and still like him. It takes a special kind of cultist who's willing to pay $8 for internet clout, for one

Please do this Reddit. Google is so much bigger than you it’s funny you think you can survive without it.

Reddit: On July 1, I'm going to anger millions of users by shutting off free API use, thus destroying third-party apps, moderator tools, and accessibility functions. Twitter: Hold my beer.

It’s not even that obvious, it’s like a new where’s Wally

Reddit has a serious problem with consent.

RIP old friend

may you have sweet dreams of en passant

anarchychess goes on vacation

will he come back?

Roughly two weeks on this hellsite and I've never been more creatively inspired in my life. I'm drawing again, fleshing out detailed backstories for OCs I've had for years, actively yearning to engage in the content I'm seeing and I NEVER had that on reddit. I think I made a total of 5 posts and probably less comments in my entire 5+ YEARS before I deleted my reddit account, and that was mostly just futile, unsuccessful efforts to get help in Destiny. But I'm inspired! I didn't ask for help or approval to make this post, I didn't spend ten minutes fretting over obscure rules I might have missed, and I'm certainly not worried about getting told to off myself for being optimistic about being here! The SECOND I found a post mentioning how to turn off the post algorithm shit went from serviceable to time waster status and I'm fucking psyched to be here. Fuck everyone who tried to give this place a bad rap, i'm sure it's absolutely not perfect but at least I'm not scared to have an opinion here.

Apparently spez has said that the blackout is 'noise' and 'will pass'. Two days was never enough. I'm not using Reddit until pigboy backs off. This blackout needs to be indefinite.

And when you leave for good, make sure to delete your valuable content. Shitheel isnt making a cent of my posts.

The content of spez's internal memo:

Hi Snoos,

Starting last night, about a thousand subreddits have gone private. We do anticipate many of them will come back by Wednesday, as many have said as much. While we knew this was coming, it is a challenge nevertheless and we have our work cut out for us. A number of Snoos have been working around the clock, adapting to infrastructure strains, engaging with communities, and responding to the myriad of issues related to this blackout. Thank you, team.

We have not seen any significant revenue impact so far and we will continue to monitor.

There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

While the two biggest third-party apps, Apollo and RIF, along with a couple others, have said they plan to shut down at the end of the month, we are still in conversation with some of the others. And as I mentioned in my post last week, we will exempt accessibility-focused apps and so far have agreements with RedReader and Dystopia.

I am sorry to say this, but please be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public. Some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.

Again, we’ll get through it. Thank you to all of you for helping us do so.

So r/place was supposed to happen today. That is pretty much confirmed.

There were a bunch of changes and a lot of added code relating to place on Reddit. A moderator leaked that place was announced on the mod council and was promptly removed from the mod council. In that leak they showed images featuring UI elements identical to those found in the code that were added only much later on.

Internally it was referred to as "garlic-bread" something which was also alluded to in the arg that took place on reddit during April fools.

Place was so far along you could enable pretty much all functionality except the canvas by setting a single flag with a browser script.

If you did that you could also see that the logo for place had been changed to a snoo with a birthday hat.

Place got cancelled because of the protest. This isn't confirmed but it is pretty obvious.

Good job Spez. Good fucking job.

Mere minutes of the new instance of r/place and the Germans have their banner up and are already calling reddit CEO a motherfucker

So if you didn't know reddit decided to host another place today, yup, in July, not April. But uh, it's going great!