JustSomePerson

I wish “social media drama” would be somewhere else than “technology”. There is nothing in this story related to technology, it’s about business, people, and politics.

Fine. If it helps you manage your issues, you can call it a platform. That doesn’t change the fact that there is absolutely no need to use an app to access it, and then moan about how bad that app is.

Grow the fuck up. You know very well what I mean. The end user interface is a website, and does not require a special app to be accessed.

Use a browser ffs. I genuinely don’t understand why people are so obsessed with using a specific app for each website. If the reddit app is bad you can use Chrome. Or Safari, or Brave, or Samsung Browser, or Opera.

Reddit is a website.

I for one, spent time blocking what I wanted to, to curate my feed, and it took time.

If that is your general approach, why are you suddenly so eager to hand over that responsibility to the instance owner? Why are you pushing for that instances should curate the feeds of all their users, rather than the users themselves?

What a fucking hateful choice of colours. Green for blocking and red for allowing communication. Really shows what kind of perspective the creator has.

They had that in parts of Europe for a year now as a trial. But they are discontinuing it this month, making us choose between ads, and lots of YouTube premium crap we don’t want.

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Because there is no useful replacement. The people I want to follow are nowhere else. When major news sources left Twitter, they left to nowhere except their own websites. The end result is that I don’t really keep up with the news anymore.

it was invented to be a financial transaction tool

Which it failed at

An application for every website. Each “focusing on the content”. All that does is move the browsing to the OS.

What is the advantage of your viewer over a regular browser?

Yes. I was there just minutes ago, in the live threads for Formula 1 qualifying. All good, interesting opinions, and relevant links posted. No complaints.

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Is there a downward spiral, though? Or did they just get rid of a bunch of (from their perpective) whiny, entitled, free riding, old-timers?

Have you considered accepting that you’re wrong on this? It’s not a personal disaster to realize that just because you didn’t personally see the impact, there was none. Instead of sticking to what you thought, you might learn insights. Perhaps they can be valuable when analyzing the current bubbles.

Are you maybe too young to know people who were actually working at the time. Obviously the life of a high schooler wasn’t very affected.

Good for you. But perhaps fuck off, because some of us lost jobs, homes, and financial stability.

Have you considered that maybe it’s not that bad? In the last month, I have tried to find out what it is that people hate about it so strongly. But all they say is immature things like “it’s cancer”, “it’s literally cancer”, “it’s shit”.

It might not have the features that people who joined reddit in 2017 care about, but most people dgaf.

The switch to where? Here, where there is almost no content except for discussions about how bad reddit, meta, threads, bluesky etc. are?