I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.

That makes for a pretty bad experience.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

We know… we were there.

@clive @petrillic I do wonder if BBEdit is gaining new users, though? I never used it and I’m a fan of the release notes, but when I opened it myself it felt… overwhelming. And a bit on an older side. (Which didn’t use to feel good, but maybe that is also changing as the OS is moving in the wrong direction…)

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

Fuck now you’re telling me I mixed up Malaysia and Mali?! Just put me out of misery now

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Yeah, but the tankies still love them. It’s weird. Putin openly acknowledges he’s trying to rebuild imperial Russia, not the USSR, and still.

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@Migueldeicaza In America we say every day is Christmas when you’re a Swift developer and I think that’s beautiful.

@mwichary

possibly the most wonderful piece of software I've ever used

it has an astonishing blend of intuitive -- not in the "we're dumbing this down" sense, but "you can infer the function of something based on its placement and UI even if it's new to you"; just *fabulous* cognitive ergonomics -- and deep/powerful

no other piece of software I use comes close

like, I love scrivener, but its UI -- while mostly very good -- has its weird, cryptic byways

logic has none

@mattblaze oooooh! top of the bucket list it goes. THANX!