• SeedyOne@lemmy.ca
    42·
    1 year ago

    Many of us knew back with the firing of Victoria and Pao the sacrificial lamb, but June 12th truly sealed their fate. About forking time.

    • yukichigai@kbin.social
      371·
      1 year ago

      They’re replacing gold with “Community Points”, which are of course built on THE BLOCKCHAIN and are specific to the subreddit, but also if you get enough you can have more direct control over the subreddit or… something?

      Mostly it sounds like a thinly veiled system designed to let people spend money to buy influence over a subreddit. But hey, it’s crypto-based so that makes it cool, right?

      • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        1 year ago

        Holy shit… If people can buy influence, then the political nutbags that already influence social media through bot accounts will now be able to directly use their money to further push their agendas unfettered… I am so glad I jumped ship when I did.

      • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        This is a joke even to crypto bros. The whole point of a blockchain is to resist censorship; slapping it on top of an already centralized server accomplishes nothing because it still has a weak point. Try making a revolutionary subreddit and see how long it lasts.

        We need a decentralized system, but the servers don’t need to sync up in perfect lockstep like the monetary system does. Anybody who understands these things should be using Lemmy!

      • Default_Defect@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Finally deleted my account over this, haven’t touched it otherwise in a while and have been using Lemmy instead, but this pushed me over the edge.

    • WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      993·
      1 year ago

      Nothing happend at Reddit Frontpage on June 12, 2023. The so called “protests” is a hoax invented by the Lemmy devs attempting to discredit our wonderful platform. The “purge of moderators” never happened, not one single moderator was purged. And those who did get purged are violent rioters internet vandals. Reddit is the greatest platform ever, and Lemmy is filled with racists and spammers and ads and evil developers trying censor posts and take away user freedom. Long live CEO Spaz! May his wisdom guide us towards a better future!

      /s

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    81·
    1 year ago

    Marketing Dept: Hey Mr Spez, we look like losers because no one wants to use this buggy restrictive piece of shit app that we made. How much should we invest in developing a better app?

    Spez: INVEST NOTHING!!! I have a much better solution… have every other app in the world killed! THE PEONS WILL TAKE WHAT WE GIVE THEM AND LIKE IT!!! (insert maniacal super villainous laughter)

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    Some of the few subs on reddit-logo I still cared to visit never recovered from the blackout. Which is probably just as planned or at least a stroke of luck for the admins. debord-tired

    • WtfEvenIsExistence3️@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      311·
      1 year ago

      HUGE SEASON 1 SPOILERS for [The Good Place], CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK:

      spoiler

      The 4 main characters were mistakenly seleted to go to the “Good Place”, which is like the biblical “heaven”. It’s a place where good people go to enjoy the afterlife.

      This is the moment where one of the characters (Eleanor Shellstrop, the one in the image) realize that the so called “Good Place” they’ve been in is actually the “Bad Place” similar to the biblical “hell” and the whole “mistakenly selected to be in the Good Place” is a clever ploy to “torture” the 4 main characters.