Current state of Reddit

Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 658 points –

My friend sent me this, the current state of Reddit. (I left during the app issue and haven't looked back)

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The way Spez and the admins treated Apollo's dev was more than enough for me to leave Reddit, and that's before the shit he said about the vulnerable users of his site (essentially seeing them as dollar signs - I know CEOs are scummy but holy fuck).

whats this about the vulnerable users?

A lot of third party integrations to improve accessibility for visually or physically impaired users were caught up in the restrictions designed to destroy RIF Apollo etc. Spez vaguely said reddit would fix that, but it basically just resulted in improvements to base reddit for those users thrown into the bottom of a low priority dev list never to see the light of day.

Oh I knew about that. With the way he said that I figured there was a specific quote that he said something about calling the user base vulnerable.

"There's a lot of stuff on the site that you'd only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all ... But we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free."