Reddit made it unmistakably clear that they don’t want traffic from people using their API and that they don’t want google or anyone else to scrape “their” content, which I’m pretty sure will have significant impact on SEO. They also have made sure to please potential shareholders by banning a ton of users and communities before their IPO.

As a result, the quality and quantity of discussion on the platform has lowered, some people even tried to mass delete their posts and comments which makes some threads to appear like ghost towns, which has also revealed the insane amount of inorganic communication (bots and the like).

So how exactly did google kill their userbase?

I sure hope he keeps his sanity and will have a worthy successor one day.

• effective API shutdown for everyone but themselves to force users onto their objectively worse own app that is filled with ads and telemetry.
• shadowbanning and even real banning for flimsy reasons. Banning whole communities because they think it pleases shareholders.
• AI agents that pollute and distort the discourse. Like posts with 10k upbotes and 5 comments.

That and essentially all the additional things that come with an IPO. All corporate owned social media has gone to shit sooner or later. Most platforms didn’t even make it that far.

Just checked and i guess you’re right! Time to do some distro hopping again lol.

Not the heroes we deserve, but the ones we need.

Would be great to see some major distros shipping with KDE by default. Fedora e.g. had this idea a little while ago.

Scary that they banned WhitePeopleTwitter, a sub with 3M+ subscribers.