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spiderkle @lemmy.ca

1y ago

Reddit Tomorrow

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I would give you a worthless gold award but Lemmy doesn't have those.

I'm still missing a lot of the niche communities that haven't cropped up here yet, but this instance and the USS Hood discord have been a diverting replacement.
- give it time or better yet, start one yourself, it's a new day.
  
  this!
- The good thing is that the more niche they are, the easier it is to just move somewhere else since you don't have to convive millions of people.

Quite an impressive likeness of Spez there
- No need to insult Quark, jeez.

BS comparison. Ferengi have at least some kind of moral compass.
- By the 57th Rule of Acquisition, "Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them," Reddit is being a bad Ferengi.
- is spez the brunt?
  
  Liquidator Spez. RCA (Reddit Commerce Authority)
  
  More like Rom.
  
  Instead of the FCA, it’s “F Users in the A”
- The 34th Rule of Acquisition. War is good for business

I nuked a 15yr and 14yr old account on reddit. Just one more to go and today is the day.

An apt comparison
- thx just made the switch today. already netting other positives being off reddit.

@spiderkle So, do you want to be paid in pressed latinum or oppressed latinum?
- lol that's good

All useless gold!
- Someone extracted all the latinum!...

Whooooo that is a sexxxxy ferengi!
- I mean just look at those lobes 😏

I deleted my final two accounts today. It won't be easy, but it's time for me to move on.
- Congrats, It's a new day! Just nuked my reddit yesterday, leaving no content to be profited from. It's strange how stagnant and unflexible reddit had become over the last years.
  
  Check back up on it though. Saw a video where someone nuked account/comments and reddit un-deleted everything. Even if misleading, wouldn't hurt to confirm account is dead in a bit.

Like those bars have no lattinum their subreddits will have no posters
- no creators = no content = no faces to put ads in front of
  edit: the restore feature is neat btw!
  
  I'm sure ChatGPT can keep filling r/AITA threads. At least half of them were made up already anyway.

There is so many situations where big business just wins, I’m so glad to witness a possible situation where the community wins (even if it’s short lived)
- To even think people subscribed to reddit premium to help the still private company and it's devs.

Do we have an RES for lemmy?
- So far, there are some user-scripts or extensions to customize Lemmy like old.reddit.com or according to your needs. At the moment, I am using Lemmy_monkey. There is a community called "Lemmy Plugins & Userscripts" covering everything you need
  !plugins@sh.itjust.works

Yes

Rule of acquisition #142:
If there's no product, there's no profit.

It’s all just (Reddit) gold! Worthless gold!
- Turns out one of the users they alienated was Morn. He was their best customer. And his stomach was full of latinum.
- It may not be a total loss, some primitive cultures consider it valuable.

Even if currency were their currency...
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation-cut-for-reddit-and-discord/
[Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund] has further slashed the estimated worth of its holding in the social platform Reddit... [it] valued its holdings in Reddit at $15.4 million as of May 31... That’s down 7.36% from the $16.6 million mark at April’s closure and altogether a slide of 45.4% since its investment in August 2021. The updated share value suggests a $5.5 billion valuation for Reddit.
- Very interesting. It doesn't seem to be that big of a downturn in the total valuation, but it's continuing several small downward trends for the platform. Close to 10% down isn't breaking the bank, but Investors always just count engagement numbers (for ad monetization). So it's not even factoring in the loss of content and free manpower / creators yet. Those will hurt the bottom line in the long run.
  
  It's close to 50% down in 1 year. That's a huge valuation cut. Wait til they realise they lost many of the power users who were actually giving the website content. It's all downhill from here.

I’m so happy to be here, everyone is so nice. Here’s to a bright future!

Well, it's been a good run at least.
- no kidding. been using this for a few weeks, and seen a noticeable increase in aggressive users the past few days who just scream, harass, and name-call at people they disagree with.
  can't wait for the reddit idiots to flood lemmy instances with their hate and stupidity.
  
  This is my second week using kbin, and the magazine RedditMigration, while initially seemed to be a more welcoming place, has started to turn more vindictive towards Reddit. It's a large community with over 10k users...already.
  I get it, people are upset, however it's time that people understand that Reddit isn't going to change, and that former users are just going to have to kind of get over it. Cut the losses and build a community over Fediverse. To me it seems fairly simple, but I know a lot of Reddit Refugees have put a lot more time and effort into the site over the years than me.

https://files.catbox.moe/zhtzfq.mp4

The difference is: Ferengi would respect this. There's probably some Rule of Acquisition that states "The consumer is the most valuable source of latinum" or something.

Karma = Latinum, a currency retcon'ed into a socialist utopia because they couldn't actually deal with the idea of a world without money
- The Federation (the socialist utopia you reference) doesn't use Latium, thats usually used by societies (mostly The Ferengi, a commentary on late-stage capitalism) that still barter using currency.
  The only retcon is that they decided to make gold "worthless" in comparison.
  
  They're not even consistent on that point either. Quark in this episode declares it worthless. In an episode of Voyager a couple of Ferengi are mentioned to have have tried to steal gold reserves from Ft Knox. And in Enterprise sine 22nd century Ferengi (pre-official first contact which was during TNG) raid the ship and are interested in the gold they think is hidden aboard.
  
  I mean, gold is pretty abundant in space and presumably not that difficult to replicate.
  
  They say they don't, but we know they trade with the ferengi, and that federation staff on non-federation worlds received latinum to buy stuff. Quarks isn't handing out drinks for free, for example.
  Federation credit is also a thing.

Yup, they did a great job at driving away people who cared. Now they’re left with shitposters and spammers. The downside is they’ll still make a killing selling the free content everyone gave them to train AI models. But they’ll get no more from me.
I don’t want to wish misfortune on Spez, but i certainly don’t want to wish fortune on him either. What a colossal idiot.

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