Just recently updated on this, reddit are actively trying to do something about it but are still in the "oh fuck what do we do?" stage of gathering information. https://hexbear.net/comment/3946548
I don't think this is all just alienating power users. I think a major aspect of this is disturbing routines that people previously had. When people have a daily routine where they do the same thing every single day you shouldn't disturb that because then they replace that part of their routine with something else, that's what users did with reddit imo when their preferred app no longer worked. They just used something else, probably Tiktok.
Fair. Honestly Lucas never should have let go of something that so heavily relies upon plot being based within his personal political criticisms. It's not really a surprise that other writers are missing the mark with it when his politics are rather close to marxist.
Their animated movies are also uninspired now.
Like? Ok Lightyear is trash but Raya and Encanto are fine, very typical Disney movies tbh. Seems more like your problem is with Pixar than Disney? Frozen 2 was mid but I can't think of a single Disney sequel that wasn't.
I think there's a difference between "Disney is releasing shit" and "THE WOKE MIND VIRUSSSSS
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But you're right, Disney today doesn't feel any different to Disney of 25 years ago. Their new movies are pretty much the same as their old ones. So it really does deserve deeper investigation to check the reasoning.
The problem here is that all of these people have turned their consumer choices into their identities and thus they feel personally attacked whenever they hear criticism of the products they consume.
It's incredibly unhealthy and something everyone should work to weed out of their mindset if they want to grow as a person instead of being perpetually unhappy because others criticising things isn't going anywhere.
What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I've ever seen online and the fact that it's going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.
Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit
When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.
Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn't damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that for some of this you'll need to use more than one platform for a while. Sports content was one of the last things that really popularised on reddit and that's because it's less popular among early adopters, who tend to be more into tech than physical activities.
You are the textbook definition of what we refer to as the "out to brunch liberal" who gets annoyed at how the poors caring about their conditions inconveniences your entertainment and treat consumption.
The best part about this for any marxists reading is that your user history is filled with art deco posts.
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