Yeah I’m glad that some series (Pixel AFAIK) are now releasing slightly smaller phones, because the growth was getting ridiculous and highly impractical.

If I remember correctly, dark roast was also originally devised to hide bad-quality coffee beans. Nowadays it is often implied that darker roasts are better, which actually isn’t necessarily the case.

They act like everyone already uses reddit and the users are so addicted they’ll put up with anything. To be honest, this may actually be true for a significant portion of the userbase.

Completely agree! Especially if it some kind of product support. I hate having to scroll through thousands of chronically ordered chat messages to find the solution to the problem I’m having.

ITT: nope, not touching anything touched by Zuckerberg.

I think it is safe to assume that’s happening now anyway. As long as anyone can access the data at the moment, they will too.

Unfortunately websites can’t really go private :P

So after June 30th we will not have an idea about the state of things anymore… :P

Yeah, it’s going to take some time to get rid of the ‘open RIF’ reflex.

Just speaking for myself, I find absolutely no interest in those platforms you mention: they do not show any really depth if you know what I mean. I love going around various sublemmies (if that’s the word) and discussing these absolute niches.

That’s amazing! It’s definitely important to keep those DMs

That’s definitely a risk. The main way of avoiding that is to stay active :D

I don’t care that mutch about Reddit Inc, but rather about all the communities I was once part of.

Especially with all the people currently fully scrubbing their history.

Oh wow I forgot about boat. Glad I learnt of some better alternative!

I agree, it feels a bit like the internet in the early days, where you can find mindblowing new things just around the corner with a single click

Yup, essentially the same thing happens on Reddit and things always seem to work out in the end.

Profitable is probably a big word here, but they were surviving and without any real ambitions, not a lot of money was necessary. Originally, the Reddit gold awards seemed to be enough for them to pay for server usage and the handful of developers/admins.

However, the last couple of years things felt like they were changing behind the scenes. More investors were attracted and growth became an objective. The low interest rates indeed meant a lot of money was available and that investors wanted more growth as there were plenty of alternatives that WERE growing. If your growth is/was disappointing, you’d lose the investors as they would go elsewhere. The current situation is likely just the tail end of that process.