ipkpjersi @ ipkpjersi @lemmy.one

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This is a depressing reality but I think it's likely this will happen. It makes me so mad Google got as big as they did. Someone needs to tear the fuckers down.

Eh, I don't think that's fair. There's still a lot of good redditors out there stuck on reddit because they don't know any better. More technical and veteran redditors are more likely to be willing to jump ship because they know how much reddit is a sinking ship and how it's going to end up dying out.

This is 100% it. People who think giving additional traffic to reddit hurts reddit are very dumb lol

The only thing we could do is write join Lemmy and hope that more people will join Lemmy.

I did that too (swapping out a complex codebase with a simpler new modern one), then I got laid off along with another dev and we got replaced by friends of our boss lmao

Although I do admit it's nice my new job that I'm starting next week pays me nearly 30% more than my old job did along with a better title to match the level I was performing at my old job lol

We need to just let reddit die as a sign to all other executives that their customers are the ones who hold the cards.

The same thing could have been said about Digg. They are too stupid. Companies start out small, and have stars in their eyes instead of money bags, and talk about how they want to be different and want to do good for the world. Then once they grow beyond a certain size, they became the same evil shit as any other corporation. It happens time and time again, and it will continue happening.

It's the only thing that will actually make a difference.

Yet there are still so many people who deny climate change. It is pretty horrifying.

Well, her name is one letter off of Cries after all.

That's not entirely true. One of the lead developers of Lemmy almost blocked infinite scrolling being implemented before the other lead developer stepped in and approved it. This can absolutely happen with other features, other features can get blocked.

There's nothing wrong with having additional optional features through an addon, especially when those features are optional and also don't have to go through an approval process. That's the power of addons.

Yep, which is all Spez and the other higher ups care about. Stop using reddit.

If that actually were the punishment, you'd actually see companies behaving a lot less evil very quickly. A tiny fine that isn't even a blip in the companies pocket won't do anything.

Yep, but it never will be a $2.5 billion fine.

The CEO bragged about building the submarine out of used parts and said that regulations were boring. He sealed his fate long before it happened.

I'm still waiting for a community-based project of passion like Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Lemmy Enhancement Suite when?! lol

Yeah, I agree. I'm a programmer, and I too would also expect the majority of people using decentralized platforms have a technical background.

It's because they don't know any better. The average redditor isn't exactly super smart, and half of them are even stupider than that!

So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.

I feel like those people are pretty dumb. Like, if they could all just leave and go elsewhere, they'd be much better off than yelling in circles and not getting anything accomplished.

The website is obviously run by a crazy fuckhead CEO, so might as well go elsewhere - especially somewhere decentralized where that can't be a problem.

Here are the results at my time of reading this, if anyone is curious: https://i.imgur.com/PcMywpx.png

I do almost all of my gaming on PC (and Steam Deck too). I am the 256th person to vote PC. That's 2 to the power of 8. lol

When you're a beginner, it's both. The further you get into your career, it's usually imposter syndrome. Then again the more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

True, but we're less than a year away from the next Ubuntu LTS which would have that fixed anyway I believe.