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Yeah but capitalism also made reddit great, before making it terrible.
There’s a balance in there somewhere. What we got ain’t it tho.
There is no balance though, the shit-ification that happened to Reddit is a necessary function of capitalism. What we saw as Reddit at its best was, from a capitalist's perspective, Reddit at its worst. I'm sure you've noticed a similar process taking place in lots of other areas as well.
And capitalists will allow this "at its worst" phase in order to capture the market, before squeezing it. This pattern is consistent in many industries.
Engineers and designers made it great. Reddit could very well exist without capitalism (see Lemmy). What fucked up Reddit was explicitly capitalist incentives.
Reddit was never great lmaoo
It was a pedo networking tool reknowned worldwide for it's jailbate and non-consensual creepshots. These moderators received awards from admins. Then it got too much attention and got a PR workover, burning a woman CEO at the stake to satiate the gamer-fascists before becoming a bland Atlanticist CIA sockpuppet front of bland corporate posts.
At no point during this entire thing did it ever approach anything comparable to greatness
I meant the platform more than the company.
It’s my favorite format for social media… that’s why I’m on lemmy.
communism made lemmy so where does that leave us
I guess 'a lot of free spare time in a socialized copitalism' made lemmy.
It was good when it had only a few hundred thousand users, but obviously you weren't there.
no that was when it was a jailbait/creepshots/libertarian/"hacker" site. Still not good. Still pedo and soy.
Are you saying you used Reddit for its jailbait etc subs? Cause Reddit was much more than it’s jailbait subs.
Are you really trying to do that?
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Do you have a point?
yeah
Here's a link to a peer-reviewed study by Philip P. Bandhurst proving you're an idiotGo on…
Did you click the comment?
You’re right. Your comment was very well written, and backed up with so much evidence. I shouldn’t be questioning it.
Thank you, glad you can admit when you're wrong. It shows growth.
Lol. Google “facetious” and “sarcasm”.
I can't unfortunately. Putin doesn't allow me to use google while I spread disinformatsiya
That made me laugh.
Glad to hear it if you'd mind filling out this form and rating me 5 stars that'd really help me in my upcoming review
Also you should really do the same
It’s ok. Hard to pick up in text. An “/s” would have helped.
If your sarcasm needs an /s it's shit sarcasm and you've got terrible timing.
That's precious..