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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just as how Netlix tweeted "love is sharing a password" a couple years ago before fucking their subscribers with no lube, any confidence in reddit is gone. They professed different values than they demonstrate now.

They're making insignificant carve outs FOR NOW to mitigate bad press and negative attention. Those will also go away in the name profit if Reddit survives this betrayal, maybe in a few months, maybe in a couple years, but the ground under which a sense of community formed is shattered irrevocably.

Why make content to profit a platform that openly disrespects and lies to its users, many many of whom provided free labor on the basis of that now erased sense of trust and respect?

And it will only get worse after the IPO, when activist investors insist on monetizing their shitty first party platforms even more.