Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

zoostation@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People still use AOL internet. I expect Reddit and twitter to die sometime in the 2050s.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Digg still exists. Death of websites is rarely a complete shutter, but usually more of a steady decline into obscurity

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    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow!! It’s the Divide By Zero admin!!

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not a celebrity :D

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I missed the part where Aol. was promoting toxicity and hate while attempting a short-term grift on its users like Reddit and X have.

    That fact that Aol. is still alive is amazing by itself. It’s just another sleazy, beleaguered company that used to be meaningful. You leave because other companies have better products, not because they offend your sense of morality.

    (Or maybe they do.)

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you underestimate how ignorant people can be. The reason Aol still exists is because they are grifters too. My Aol example was to show that people are docile idiots and won’t change their habits. Aol is grifting just as much as reddit does. They’re just grifting different groups in different ways.

      That’s why i think reddit and twitter will continue on for a long time. Maybe not as powerhouses but they won’t implode or go away any time soon.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not just AOL Internet, but also the email service. Same for Hotmail. I used to work at iHeart, and the number of those email services (from prize winners) was not insignificant.

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    • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hotmail was owned by Microsoft when I signed up in the late 90s. It’s no surprise it’s still around. It hasn’t been my primary email for a long time, but I still use it as my MS account. So really it’s just my Minecraft account.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a few accounts floating around for different services Microsoft has bought out or since integrated logins for. I genuinely don’t know how many Microsoft accounts I have, and it’s always a pain trying to guess which one a given service is on

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are a lot of subreddits for which there is no real replacement. Sometimes the strength in a community is the people. Doesn’t matter if reddit sucks if the people are there.

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• P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe you missed the point. There’s people there because they know that their content won’t be found elsewhere.

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know, I feel during that exodus we got the best of the best. I miss some of the niche communities, But there’s so many fewer assholes over here.

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A lot of it is just propaganda bots at this point.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those still on are a bunch of bootlickers IMO

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