• Ertebolle@kbin.social
      1623·
      1 year ago

      They had one founder who actually believed in that, he left in 2007 and is now deceased. (RIP) But they’ve been milking it ever since.

      Huffman and Ohanian are both Y Combinator grifter types, Ohanian also happens to be married to Serena Williams yet rather than being content to live off his extremely wealthy wife’s money he’s spent the last few years touting crypto scams.

          • buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            yeah it’s almost like the entire criminal legal system is fundamentally corrupt and only serves to enforce existing power structures.

            • EuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifeEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Further, copyright and the rest of the intellectual property lot only serve the current corporatist arrangement, helping keep large companies hard to compete with. It’s funny how people praise things like patents for “protecting” people, but it’s literally a government-granted monopoly on useful shit that would be cheap and accessible if people couldn’t pay for the rights to legally screw other people over.

  • Rusticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    The reality for those that have been through the collapse of Digg and now Reddit due to centralized corporate greed: “WE WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN!”

    Decentralized and federated is the future. Hopefully it will be a healthier version of social media.

    • admiralteal@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      For-profit is not the future. Commercial platforms aren’t the future. Advertising-funded services are all doomed to fail eventually Enshitification is inevitable when the fundamental purpose of the site is commerce.

      At least as it is now, fediverse is all cooperative and user-funded. That will be what protects it from going down the same road. Whether it can permanently survive that way I do not know. As soon as any major instance turns to advertising to pay the bills, the entire space is in deep and terrible danger.

    • crilen@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Fool me once,shame on you

      Fool me twice, shame on… Me

      Fool me thrice… you fooled me I can’t get fooled again!

    • sharksrtrans@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      uffda.

      I’ve been on reddit an embarrassingly long time. From before the rapist thread to violentacrez facilitating abhorrent things.

      Lemmy certainly seems less abhorrent and also a bit of a difficult learning curve.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Maybe the curve will keep the trolls out of here… It’s a bit like using Linux. Almost all people you interact with are nice and intelligent since you need to be a certain kind of personality to even be interested in learning it.

        When something becomes mainstream popular, corporations will stripmine the value and the experience will worsen significantly.

        • at_an_angle@lemmy.oneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m not necessarily nice, just not a dick.

          Not really intelligent, I just smash my head against the wall until things work.

          But fuck big corporations.

    • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      At this point, spez resigning wouldn’t cut it. Reddit would need to be made into a non-profit a la Wikipedia and be managed by a trust.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Nevermind that their investors aren’t about to let them alter course with a looming IPO payday.

      • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        I can’t commit to anything above non-zero. But at the same time, getting me to come back sounds more like a reddit problem than a me problem.

        • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh I’m not saying I’d rejoin Reddit if that happened, only that that’s what would be required for me to consider it in the first place.

    • Jcb2016@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      I checked Reddit today. Of course from old reddit. It’s literally crap. Not cause I hate reddit now but the first 50 some frontpage subs just sucked. I’m glad I deleted my account

      • sharksrtrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        1 year ago

        Old.reddit on my mobile w/firefox still doesn’t have ads. I still don’t see avatars &… While I’m struggling dearly with figuring lemmy out I still dig it.