WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways.
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    28·
    8 months ago

    I feel bad for users over there, at least the long time users who know what it was. I’ll admit, when I moved over here I felt genuine remorse, guilt, and anger. I realized I was literally going through mourning, which sounds silly for a website, but those were communities I joined over a decade ago that I was walking away from.

    People have asked me why I started a Taylor Swift community over here, and it’s really because of those nice, friendly communities over on Reddit that I had to walk away from. I know how hard it was to leave those ones, so maybe I can run a couple of the ones that I enjoyed there to help the next wave of folks so they know there are some of us here already who have gone through it.

    Emotional, probably, but honestly just felt betrayed and angry with how they treated us long time users, the ones who were there at the very beginning. They chose some hussy ill dressed homewrecker IPO over us long term stable and loving users.

    • TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org
      10·
      8 months ago

      I relate to this a lot. I was on Reddit for over a decade, too, when I left after the third-party apps shut down. I loved a lot of the discussion over there (once I got away from some of the big subs and found smaller ones), and still kind of miss it. There really was a period of sadness when I left. I’m trying to be active over here to help these communities grow, but it’s hard to get back into it and be motivated sometimes.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, sometimes it feels like yelling into an empty chamber, but I see the votes coming in, I know people are there. Trying to drive engagement without seeming like some marketing asshole at the same time.

        The grief still hits me every once in a while, but the realization came that Reddit isn’t who they were 10 years ago. I’m not sad because I left Reddit, I’m sad because Reddit betrayed who they were when I signed up, and they killed a good thing themselves.