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Nuking old Reddit accounts
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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I look at it this way… I’d rather the information start being posted here or somewhere besides Reddit, and eventually that place will be more relevant.
Reddit is not essential.
But… is it posted here? This intentional degradation/rot feels like the burning of Alexandria.
If one has a history of only making comments that they don't consider to have value then, maybe.
I see that those people will eventually move to another platform and it will be there.
Yeah, it’s surely a loss in the short term. Just makes me sick to think about Huffman getting rich off the content so many others created and moderated. Reddit hasn’t even done a very good job creating a good platform. The just bought out Alien Blue and have made that shittier ever since. Same with old Reddit, it was so good because it was simple yet effective, and they’ve slowly been destroying that for some time.
Monetizing ruined a great thing and they shouldn’t benefit from that.
THEY ruined Reddit and a good thing. Had they not done that, all the content and users would be there. They’d still be making money. They just want more and have been compromising the product on their end and have been held up