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Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I left a couple of months ago. Couldn't be happier.

The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t act like Lemmy can’t be immediately astroturfed as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No man made organization is infallible. Due to Lemmy's decentralized nature though it's objectively more difficult. Astroturfing or completely co-opting all possible instances would be quite an impressive feat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need to, you only need to go after the large ones. I'm already on my third instance, and having to move is such a giant pain in the ass, I don't think I'd do it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What motivated you to switch instances? Did your early ones fill up with junk posts etc? I was thinking that since I use a reader app (Boost for Lemmy) and everything is federated it wouldn't matter much if I joined one of the large and general-purpose instances.

Or was it more about performance issues... service/instance traffic overload leading to slow response time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Performance issues, which of course is the issue with federation. Sometimes it was my instance having issues, other times it was the instance I was posting too. One of them defederated from a large one and didn’t allow downvoting, which I would forget via a third party app and it would hang before erroring out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info! Yeah, it's going to take the fediverse in general some time to get smoother. I'm excited to watch it improve even if the pace is slow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, yet it still isn't, as far as I can see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It absolutely is, even if your particular instance hasn't been. Lemmy.world probably takes the brunt of it.