• plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I dunno about winning. Lemmy user count is through the roof. And Im one of the people who left when they pulled the API nonsense. The way they gaslit and lied to the Apollo dev was just unacceptable. Couldn’t participate there after that.

    • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Same. And I don’t like to admit it, but I was a “power user”. When Bacon Reader went dark, I never went back. Like others have pointed out, Reddit was always going to “win” the protest, even with over 1800 subs still out. But the platform’s frontpage quality is in the tank. Google doesn’t want to list Reddit at the top of search results anymore. The corporate failure to retain money making accounts made national news. Huffman completely missed the investment boat, and although the site itself is still generating traffic, the raised interest rates and lack of ROI for the unpopular changes spells out nothing but a slow death rattle.

      And, lmao, anyone that publicly announces they’re following the “Musk Model” for social media platform leadership is clearly a fucking dipshit doomed to drive their site into the ground.

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        1 year ago

        The corporate failure to retain money making accounts made national news.

        This is a thing?!

      • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        And, lmao, anyone that publicly announces they’re following the “Musk Model” for social media platform leadership

        Wait is this for real? I found this but that’s not quite saying the same thing.