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goodbye Joey for reddit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a matter of absolute control, it's not about the money that could be earned with a reasonable deal (which would be the smart play), it's about displacing all third parties to annex control. Initially Spez tried to put a spin on it to make it look less hostile, but honestly it's one of the most abusive things I've seen from a corporation, one for the history books. Now he's doubling down by removing major Reddit features. It's insane. What's even more odd is Musk and Spez seem to be destructively operating in parallel. Honestly if you told me this would happen a year ago I would have thought impossible. Crazy times.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I don't get is that if they were honest up front most of us would've accepted it. It's the being abusive part that got me to leave. All they had to do was put out a pr spin and use some fluffy language to thank the 3rd party devs but acknowledge reddit is changing amd they couldn't even do that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They weren't making ad money off us anyway so they figured we didn't matter.