The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
You can’t unfuck that chicken.
We know the corporation thinks it can own a community.
We saw how the corporation treats people who put in immense quantities of work, FOR FREE, making the site worth using.
These dumb motherfuckers made it impossible for me to come back without it feeling like a betrayal. I’m out. Sixteen years last month, and I am just fuckin’ done. Any time I’m there again is either an accident, or an effort to preserve my own goddamn records from the last decade and a half.
Digg losing to reddit didn’t mean Digg went away. The empty box was never the point. It’s the users, stupid. And the people who just want a safe spot to shoot the shit with one another don’t need some fucking asshole deciding they’re doing it wrong. Certainly not if that useless whipped bastard declares that half the goddamn site will be ignored, when they demand the tiniest concession to reality. Do they know what reddit is for?! The whole website is predicated on democratized opinion, gated by moderator approval, and this absolute dolt brushed aside all levels of power, to declare that no action could possibly change one iota of corporate say-so.
K bye, fuckhead. Good luck with your box full of trolls and bots. Hope your IPO goes swimmingly, now that we’ve all seen the revenue-per-user figures putting reddit somewhere below advertising on bus-stop benches, before a critical mass of regulars just fuckin’ bounced.
And then you deleted all the money people gave you directly.