Definitely Reddit’s buildup was smart. The transition to profitability not so much. Although we’ll see.

Man, remember all those who kept arguing against it? I would say “Reddit is dying”, and these new accounts that had never visited my sub before we decided it should go dark suddenly appeared and started talking crap about anyone who criticized Reddit. That should have been a smoking gun alone for people to realize what was going on. But instead, people just said “yup, that’s Reddit for you”. Which extremely unfortunately… they were right, bc that is what it had become by that time.

i.e., spez didn’t kill Reddit by denying the usage of third-party apps - that was merely the final nail in the coffin for many of us, topping off a process that had begun several years earlier.

This sounds familiar, almost as if history could perhaps, maybe, just possibly… repeat itself? Nah! (says spez)

People will follow the content creators indeed. Right now I’m not sure where they went though. The last I looked, it was basically nowhere, though to the extent that it was anything I thought it was X (even if via a temporary Mastodon intermediate). Musk fed Huffman bad info, which the Musk himself was not doing (or rather, the circumstances were entirely opposite - a public company going private rather than one attempting to make the polar opposition transition), and Huffman was dumb enough to fall for it, then Musk rakes in the rewards for his dirty deed.

Nowadays - or perhaps soon - as you said it might be Bluesky. So trading one corporate landlord for another, but it makes sense - the content creators will go wherever their audience is, and then the latter will in turn mindlessly follow the hoarde, but with an enormous delay measured in high number of months to even years. Plus, content creators need revenue to survive, e.g. how many videos is Ian Danskin (of Innuendo Studios) putting out these days? Then again, how many people especially younger ones even watch 20-30 minute long “video essays”, rather than TikTok(-style) short-form clips?

All the rest: yup.

Over time yes, but then again those most likely to leave have already done so. At this point I don’t expect anymore large exoduses from it, but even if there were I’m not so sure that they would come here.

Conservatives would not feel welcomed in the slightest (nor should they, hey-oh!:-), normies would not feel comfortable due to the heavy need to block every damn thing here just to survive it, and especially the people who think they are leftists (as I once naively thought, with zero evidence I should add!:-P who wants to bother actually looking up definitions of terms? especially if everyone around you is a conservative and thus it makes no functional difference) will find themselves most likely to become dogpiled onto by the people most ah… “eager” to look down upon their fellow human (and some as we so recently and unfortunately discussed go so far as to tell others to kill themselves - highly inappropriate language, especially coming from an instance admin).

So even if some were to leave, where would they go? Twitter is dead, having been eaten from the inside by X and cancelled, then necro-birthed into its current undead existence. And Facebook… just… no. Threads then? Maybe in a few years but either way it’s not comfortable and familiar like Reddit is. So even if people left Reddit, I would expect them to go crawling right back into it, maybe just change their subs or some such. Especially when they roll out subscription model to avoid (some of) the ads, though it’s too soon still as they get people used to them slowly but surely… just like a frog in a pot being cooked slowly (except that’s a false story, bc irl the frog actually does have enough sense to jump out!).

Or maybe they’ll simply touch grass, until they can’t stand that anymore?:-) Playing games rather than talking with people can be a real distraction from the grittiness of life - and then there’s Discord servers that so long as you only want a singular specific game, actually do offer a convenient method to discuss such a focused topic.

So “less profitable”, I guess we’ll see. Probably somewhat less, but substantially so? That I dunno.

this comment in one of the cross-postings seems relevant: https://lemmy.world/comment/13157556

Oh, thanks for the correction!:-)

That does not benefit specifically Alphabet though…

But this is presented as a “story”, an internet back-and-forth. The girl up top started off by accusation that it was a “privilege”, and she was wrong, but she used the term bc she thought she was right.

From her childish logical POV, men had that “privilege” above “normal” - her normal. Men had that “special right”, that “advantage”, that “immunity”, granted only to the particular group of humans in her world who are men yet denied to women. So it wasn’t her word choice that was wrong - the word accurately described her childish way of looking at the world.

She was, however, wrong. Sort of. Mostly. Bc while men grant that non-special right to everyone regardless of gender, women only grant it specially to men (and not even all women do, it’s a special kind of outdated Victorian cultural attitude that does so).

So what I am saying is that the word “privilege” was correct here… not in spite of but because it is wrong -> it is used to show how wrong the underlying concept is.

The first person in the graphic was saying that men have privileges above what women have. Which is partly true bc while we are the same, we are not equal - and women likewise have privileges that men do not.

The second person shut them down by pointing out the hypocrisy behind the statement. Women actually do have that same identical privilege as men… but only so far as men are the ones judging.

So women are not second-class citizens due to men putting them down, and rather it is women who are judging other women by different standards than they choose to judge men by.

My own take: dare to be different:-).

We all know why.

Fortunately, Boeing is a responsible entity and will plan on cleaning it up… right?

it’s unbelievable that anyone SANE would oppose this

There, ftfy:-|

Nuh-uh, b/c catz rule while dogz drule!

Oh ah… ahem, I mean yes, quite possibly you may be correct my good sir and/or madam.

I only half-joke b/c to some people, literally everything indeed MUST be political. Like whether a woman should have the same basic human rights as a man, especially if she chooses not to have kids - and let’s say enjoys cats or dogs instead.

It’s Liberal (Democrat) vs. Republican, ofc - b/c EVERY SINGLE THING MUST BE POLITICAL THESE DAYS!!!, ofc:-P

Tbf, I think a certain minimum amount of intelligence is required to even qualify for that statement, which I suspect disqualifies most… but yeah, underneath that, there do seem to be a few, like Jeff Bezos.

Though Donald Trump himself I see more like a monkey doing its thing, as much a symptom as a feed-forward cause of his own. I ain’t saying that he’s not “evil” in his own way, just that he lacks sufficient character for his brand of it to have had any effect at all, if it weren’t for the fact that the systems were so broken to begin with. Money (his father’s in his case) corrupts.

Bold of you to assume that most people even want that. From what I can tell…

Generating turmoil just prior to the USA election maybe?

Okay you nasty thot (how am I doing so far?):-P

Make America(n workers) young again.

I look forward to Trump’s America, where they can do both without interference from that pesky “government”.