- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.ml
- snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.ml
- snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
- reddit@lemmy.world
tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.
tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.
Unhappy with the direction investors were taking Reddit, Spez secretly started working on an alternative to the website that he lovingly named the fediverse. However, he couldn’t figure out a way to drive traffic to the Fediverse - at least not without publically breaching his contract in a major way.
His distress grew and grew. His own company was a disappointment. He had the solution, but no way out.
On top of that, his favorite activity - doomscrolling twitter in bed for hours - had become a less and less satisfying experience, as well, since Elon Musk bought the company.
It was for that reason he typed into DuckDuckGo: “twitter alternatives” - and immediately, it dawned on him. He couldn’t help but say it out loud:
“Elon, you beautiful son of a bitch, you might have just saved the internet”.
Unmitigated greed in form of turning every visible pixel into little paywalled hellscape and then showing this as subscribtion model something to investors is what i guess is happening
chance of 4.5D tetris scenario is low, but never zero