I haven't been on #Reddit for a while, but here's a helpful tip for anyone who's thinking about participating in their IPO.
Reddit claims to be "the front page of the internet," like the Forum Romanum of our day. This claim is false, and easily disproven. If you want to see the TRUE face of reddit, look at the posting/comment history of the AutoModerator account.
What you see on reddit's front page is a veil. The REAL reddit is bots, scams, porn, and no small amount of hate.
Considering making a list of companies who interfere with VPN / Proton users ability to use their sites. Some recent examples:
#Reddit - Explicitly blocks VPN connections. #Gamestop - Blocks connectivity to their site via VPN, blocks purchases through Proton, gaslights customers who ask about it ("must be your bank") #Nespresso - Allows VPN connections, silently reverses transactions. #Blizzard - Error 403 when attempting to log into Battle.net via VPN.
Remember Digg? It once made a big mistake. Everyone left Digg and joined Reddit. Someday, history will repeat itself. That day, Reddit stock will crash post-IPO. Their entire businesses are based on users, and they have been hostile to users for some time.
@nixCraft You say that, but I’ve seen so many people bounce back to #reddit and #twitter after they got bored with the alternatives, or forgot why they were mad at those platforms.
Doesn’t help that fed’s answer to Reddit #lemmy ended up being taken over by chuds.
Basically: yeah "we have no rights" to demand you anything because "it's #FOSS" and there's no warranty, but we can still call you out for positioning your software (whether intentionally or not) as the "definitive" #Reddit alternative of the #fediverse and by that implication you've betrayed most reasonable people's expectations of it. Especially when you're raking in plenty of money in grants that other projects like Pleroma, Postmill, and Sharkey could ever dream of, allowing you to work full-time on the software instead of it being on the side.
TIL I learned that there's a subreddit devoted to mocking "ridiculous" names given to children by their parents (usually unusual spellings, and yes, some go completely overboard). I made it three posts before I found my daughter's name on one of their lists. Daddy is mad!!!