Reddit Migration

As I write this, John Oliver's Twitter is posting a bunch of pics of himself telling /r/pics to "have at it"

https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver/status/1670179738348933120

Yeah, in times like this I feel like the old wacky internet is still kicking and it fills me with joy

we did it ~~reddit~~ kbin

"And the Lord God said, 'Let there be internet,' and there was pwnage. And it was good."

R/steam was forced to reopen and is only posting about literal steam, as in the stuff from boiling water. It's fantastic.

That would have been perfect. Only ASCII art of sexy John Oliver.

As far as I know, /r/pics may not take text, but has no objection to pictures of text.

$ width=300; curl -o joliver.jpg 'https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_3000/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1557998763/190507-stern-oliver-tease_1_fxn7b9' && img2txt -W $width -f ansi joliver.jpg >joliver.txt && ansilove -i -c $(($width + 1)) joliver.txt -o joliver.png

https://imgur.com/9Op8f17

We know that the advertisers and investors aren’t going to reverse course, which means Advance isn’t going to change, and that means Spez is going to keep going

He can do it, let him do it. But why should his members take on the volunteer work of keeping his project running again? Let him set up a paid staff to run the community in an authoritarian manner.

It's not our business if his project might be in little trouble.

The users are free to leave if they feel they are being hurt by the effects of Reddit's more-money-at-all-cost policies.

The die was cast when Reddit decided to put the 3rd party apps out of business. Doubling down on that is only accelerating the decline. We've now reached the point where even if Reddit did some serious backpedaling, it wouldn't get some of its content creators back.

I'd rather reddit die than have 0 input from users.

Users can find somewhere else, but reddit needs users.

push Reddit closer to the brink.

That's the point.

We won't be able to make spez change his mind, that's pretty obvious, what we CAN do is having reddit evaluation being further cut down.

That's the purpose of the trolling, ruining spez's toy IPO.

All the trolling does is hurt the users

The users are overwhelmingly in favor of any kind of protest, their participation in it is massive, they can't ban them all, they're dozens of millions.