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Reddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting (twitter.com)

submitted 2 years ago by concealmint@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

i mean, depending on what do you want to do, this might be a good idea. their motivations remain unknown, maybe they wanted to burn the place to the ground before an ipo, you never know

[-] 4am@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’d bet there’s gonna be some ~~Saudi~~ House of Saud money in that IPO.

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

as in, who would like to see that place burn? like russian govt wanted to, and did destroy livejournal because it was a nest of opposition. i don't know who would that be, but there are some solid candidates

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

maybe they wanted to burn the place to the ground before an ipo, you never know

I admittedly don't know much about IPOs, but...wouldn't that tank the value and lessen the profit from said IPO?

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

sure, if your incentives are purely economic, then it does not make sense. but, just look at what musk did with twitter - he burned bulk of its value, sure, but he also had ideological incentives to flood that place with altright chuds, and that worked. this does not make sense here tho