First subreddit over 10M to go private. The message shown when trying to enter the sub is a quote from spez:
I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticize Reddit is that we weren't a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it'd be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way. Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, April 2023
Over the years I’ve become a glass half full kind of a person when small people fight against big corporations. Eventually the dust settles, and the people give up, but the company goes on. There are exceptions, but this has been the norm. I would be pleasantly surprised if all this actually brings Reddit’s downfall.
I think there are two reasons. I think Reddit has way more ‘normal’ users than Digg who feel strongly about this, and there is no one single Reddit to replace Digg this time around. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
There is not a single Reddit, but there's a single Fediverse, offering a single alternative to every social media. And it's growing faster than ever. We shall win!
Just a nit: Given the context of the rest of your post, I think you mean "glass half empty".
"I see the glass half full" means optimistic, while "I see the glass glad empty" means pessimistic. The idiom is about what a person chooses to focus on in a less-than-ideal situation: what's missing, or what's still there?
(Not saying you don't know that, just explaining for anyone who isn't familiar with the idiom)
This quote brought tears to my eyes.
Greed is an amazing thing but community (Lemmy) is an even amazing one.
I look forward to build something meaningful here
It’d be truly sad if this shareholder enshittification of Reddit is what guts it and leaves its corpse in a ditch, but it does seem to be the way most things are headed these days.
I can only surmise that all shareholders even moderately capable of figuring out how capitalism will end have only one goal: to accumulate as much wealth as possible, then transfer it all over to the next inevitably corrupt system (however advanced and alien it may be), thereby retaining the power that corrupt wealth confers.
It's based in the fear of equity and equality: "If everyone has the same level of wealth, then I am unlikely to be able to influence others to do as I wish! I'll be forced to operate as commoners do, and I must do anything to make sure that I'm not below the laws I make to control them!"
Globalization will have to progress to the point where a unified humanity is larger in number and power than those who seek to control that very humanity.
I don't really follow too well. Is this just turning private and they continue to use with the community they have or will they just point blank stop posting on that sub?
Going private means nobody can view or post in the sub unless manually added by the mods. Presumably they won't be adding anyone since that defeats the purpose, so yeah, nobody can view or post.