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  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1361·
    11 months ago

    The truth is he’s a jealous little turd of a person. The other reddit founders, the ones with brains and skills, got out early and got paid. He wants to drain reddit of money while tanking it. He thinks he’s entitled. It’s a real shame he reproduced too, the poor kid is doomed with a godawful role model like that.

    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      11 months ago

      Ohanion was also a fucking prick, shitting up the company while he was there. All the Ellen Pao stuff and the r/IAMA clusterfuck that led to the first big Reddit shutdown? Yeah that was all Ohanion’s doing. Then he let Pao take all the heat for his decisions and get ousted.

        • Radical Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2314·
          11 months ago

          The myth of Aaron Swartz continues…

          He was a big proponent of free speech absolutism. He’d have been more than happy with the jailbait subs, watchpeopledie, fatpeoplehate etc. I really don’t think he deserves a free pass just because Reddit wasn’t enshittifying while he was around, as it was in a growth phase. It had other problems which needed resolution.

          • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
            23·
            11 months ago

            I can see where he picked up that attitude. It was common in the hacker types of the late 90s/early 2000s regardless of where their politics lay otherwise. Around the time he died, many of them were starting to see the monster that was created out of that, but it wasn’t really obvious until the 2016 election.

          • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
            9·
            11 months ago

            https://web.archive.org/web/20031229025933/http:/bits.are.notabug.com/

            Share Child Pornography

            In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

            This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

          • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            WPD has it’s place and there was nowhere on the internet that was nearly as sanitized as it was on reddit compared to other gore sites.

            That morbid curiosity in my twenties helped me through a lot.

            • Radical Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              I guess it’s the one I care least about that I listed. Substitute in the overtly racist subreddits, if you wish, as they surely didn’t deserve a platform.

          • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            You have to admit that comparatively he was the least rotten apple in that basket though.

    • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      194·
      11 months ago

      What more can you say about a man who lets cats with silicone implants have sex with him?

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Didn’t he make that decision after fanboying with Elon Musk?

      The reason these people are so rich is they’re sociopaths willing to grind their users to dust and sift their cremains through a sieve for their elemental nutrients. As a user experience designer, it’s abhorrent to watch, especially since I cared so much and had to give up my career. People like Musk and Hoffman making so much by exploiting people makes me incredibly angry.

      The wrong people have money.

      • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
        621·
        11 months ago

        Rather than try to explain it, I think it’s easier to say this. Imagine something you cherish dearly. Now imagine it slowly eroding away into nothing. Would you not be angry and want to prevent that at all costs?

        Seeing something so useful go the way of the dodo just because the people in charge of the company want to be rich is infuriating. This could really be said about far too many companies. But IMO, Reddit’s situation is more sad because the users are what made the site. The owners/creators just made the platform.

        • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
          243·
          11 months ago

          Hey! That’s what happened to gaming!

          And television and film!

          And music!

          Just art in general.

          It fucking sucks!

          • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Tbf with gaming, the indie scene is BOOMING, stay away from AAA games and you still get amazing new experiences every year

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          512·
          11 months ago

          No I wouldn’t and I didn’t.

          I find that harbouring these kind of negative emotions only effects the person having them. I don’t want to drag my own mood down. I left Reddit, I came it and I like it here. The end.

          • Kedly@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Sounds like an outlook that works well for you, but not everyone has that same outlook

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        34·
        11 months ago

        For a lot of people, including me, reddit was the place they found community on the internet. After 10 years, it was familiar, it was comfortable… it was home.

        The money-grubbing, user-exploiting shifts in policy destroyed that sense of community, and that can’t not be personal.