That’s the stuff Bill Buttlicker was trying to buy from that rude salesperson.

It does make me laugh…

He is running on ego at this point. And he let things get to the point of no return. People are moving away from Reddit, and even if the Spez guy undoes everything, third party apps won’t return, because they know they are one hissy fit, one stock offering, one bad CEO away from having to shut down again.

It may have started this way, but now we’ll have o see what Reddit will become. I have my Lemmy account and my popcorn ready.

Yep. But here is the snag: even though regular users generate traffic, power users (such as mods, people who want to have a better user experience through third party apps, people who engage in fights about usability) are those who generate and moderate content.

So driving them away will drive revenue away in short, medium and long term.

Tons of marketing sites have already recommended advertisers to stop advertising on Reddit, at least until this whole thing has settled.

The best part is the Spez guy never thought open source alternatives already existed, so he will actually speed up the end of his platform. I would bet that there won’t be an IPO any time soon, and the Spez guy is the main culprit.

At this point, I reckon no one on Lemmy wants Reddit replicated in any shape or form…