/r/popculture is closed following Reddit's decision
/r/popculture is closed following Reddit's decision
Nice thing, someone mentioned Lemmy there: https://old.reddit.com/r/popculture/comments/1j5jngg/rpopculture_is_closed/mgi48zn/
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banned for upvoting an article from the guardian about the dorito despot
I’m not sure why people still use that website. “Move fast and break things” works out occasionally, but this feels like every decision Reddit has made in the last 10 years. There were some good early choices mixed in with the bad, and denying those would be silly.
Whenever we think someone is making that many mistakes over that many years, we have to eventually accept the fact that it was likely deliberate all along. The point has likely been to push away free thinkers and smart people this whole time. We aren’t the part of the bell curve they are concerned with, as we are not as easily controllable (ie. influenced)
I’d hesitate to call lemmy users free thinkers or smart. I’m bog standard, at best, and others here are usually about par with me. No, it’s been pretty apparent that they enact change because of pressure from above and outside, leading to constant issues. The company’s leadership is simply incapable of creating anything better.
They chase money, respect, and trends, in that order, but rarely successfully and even more rarely proactively. They’re a poorly coordinated, reflexive, and myopic behemoth, and have been for a long while. The company’s just too unwieldy for them. But, the intentionality of their mistakes is irrelevant.
TLDR; The only thing of import is the frequency of their mistakes and my lack of tolerance for them.
You were smart enough to get on a device and post to Lemmy. That puts you on the right side of the intelligence bell curve my friend. Yeah, it’s not important why reddit sucks, just that more people are now realizing it and coming to places like this.
Lemmy is not an indicator of intelligence, nor would I use it as a benchmark.
But it's a good start to better options.
I’m mostly joking. But, it is a higher barrier than signing up for reddit for most people lol