Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
But also sell your data.

-Meta

Nice analogy thanks. Sure, everyone has email, but most don’t engage with it much and it doesn’t really have communities.
Well, to think of it, mailing lists of old would be similar to communities.

7 days is a lot.
Try and stay hydrated, don’t pass out, get well.

After the self induced constipation, they’ll need the poop knife for sure.

Didn’t they buy alien blue before that?
It was the most popular, before Apollo even existed I think.
They bought that, turned it to shit despite it starting from a beloved, yet now unrecognizable mess. Even if they bought Apollo, RIF, Relay, Sync and Baconreader tomorrow, their goal with the site conflicts with what people enjoy about using it and anything they do will be shittier and shittier.
People would always flock to another community focused app as long as that’s a possibility, so they decided to nuke the whole concept.

The way I see it is since I’m not a reddit customer, then I’m the product.
Except, if I’m the product, you’re probably not supposed to nickle and dime me.
It’s kinda like if McDonald’s was trying to charge cows for the privilege of being ground into patties, but relied on them to go through the process of their own free will.
Without user content, reddit is just an empty husk, a waste of data center resources, yet they behave like they’re somehow entitled to my engagement on the platform.

As for how they’ve handled things, it’s been a train wreck.
Just requiring reddit premium to have access to the API/3rd party apps would have made a few waves, but nothing like this. Keeping their mouth shut would have been more useful than almost everything they’ve done… whatever their strategy was…

Even without any of that though, they’ve been working hard at making the experience worse for a while. The redesign focuses on the user consuming ads instead of content, dooms scrolling instead of reading or commenting.

TL;DR: They were going to shit regardless, they just decided to use more fans.

It’s not even just housing but most public services too.
It’s already hard to get an appointment with a doctor, registering a car has been next to impossible around here lately, although the latter is more incompetencethan anything.
Immigration in itself is fine, but I feel we sell a pipe dream to immigrants lately.

I feel for the younger generation and I’d be glad for this bubble to burst even though I stand to “lose”.
My house has almost doubled in value in the past 7-8 years, and I’m in an “affordable” city.
Only managed to get into the market through sheer luck in timing.

I say lose, eh, loosely, because I don’t intend to ever sell this old house anyway, so its market value is mostly irrelevant.
Having a place to call home is a basic human need and people trying to make a life here deserve better.

That kinda comes with smaller communities, I think.
I’m sure toxic people will figure out lemmy eventually too, but for now it’s been nice.

The only subreddit I still care about has been private from the start and has between 300-400 people in it who have been randomly invited over time.
Post or comment every week and get kicked. On the whole, lemmy reminds me of that place a bit since the communities are smaller and idk how to put this but that feels. … more human?

Thanks, that tracks with what I’ve seen so far and discussions like these have helped me understand this whole thing a bit better. My first foray was a bit confusing because I initially joined on sh.itjust.works but tried to browse a community on beehaw, not knowing about the defederation, which isn’t too obvious for a newcomer.

I’ve been here for maybe a day now, so salt accordingly.
As far as I can tell, even though beehaw has downvotes disabled, since the instance I use has them enabled, I could still technically downvote you, at least in the UI.
You’d just never know and it would not show on your end or for anyone viewing from beehaw.org.
The part I’m not so sure about is if they would show for others on the same instance as me.
I think depending on where a third person would be viewing this thread from they would see different numbers of upvotes.
I certainly notice a few differences while reading from a different instance vs browsing the original instance directly.
Learning lemmy has been pretty interesting.