Rand_alFlagg

@Rand_alFlagg@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

Yes. Absolutely. I was a kid in the 90s and discovered Geocoties and HTML and all the really basic shit when I was like 12. And it felt like that.

They fucking inside the can. You can't put pictures of fucking beans on store shelves!

It's nothing new. It's becoming more spectacular as the people doing it are richer and richer. Geocities sold to Yahoo, who promptly murdered it. LiveJournal sold itself to a Russian banker, which caused most non-Russian users to abandon it. Tom sold MySpace to Rupert Murdoch for like 500 million and bowed out, and MySpace was driven into the ground. The buyers are getting bigger an bigger but the results of trying to squelch users has always been the same - the platform is abandoned.

I had to DMCA some of my stuff off the site to get it to stay off.

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They have forgotten the faces of their fathers. The entire reason people left Digg in the first place was because they tried to make ads unavoidable. And oh look that's the entire reason Reddit is killing third party apps. They're intent on dying the way Digg did, for the same reason.

We'll see what they do. What I flagged I am the registered copyright holder for. Metallica proved that we can treat them stealing copyrighted material that was expressly forbidden like it's industrial espionage, I'm sure I can find an IP lawyer with a raging hate-on for Reddit.

It's like they forgot what happened to Digg. They have forgotten the face of their father.

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