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Louis Rossmann is a bit of a provocateur, but what he's saying in this video is the bare and unvarnished truth. If Reddit cared about its users and its moderators, the CEO's internal messaging would be less like "this will blow over" and more like "what should we do to meet these people in the middle?"
There is no meeting in the middle when you're up against institutional investors who have put literally hundreds of millions of dollars on the line to fund your operation. I almost feel bad for Steve, he really has no choice, it's just a shame to see him falling into line and reciting exactly what the board wants him to say.
And by the way, this is why Beehaw has so much promise. The incentives of the operators and the users are aligned. There is no third party with outsized power waiting for the chance to pull the rip cord and enshittify the whole thing.
Meh, beehaw seemed promising until they unilaterally decided to cut off large parts of lemmy. I get why, but I moved to another server because I want to control my own experience
You could host your own instance just for yourself, try oracle always free tier cloud computing, the specs aren’t great: 1GB RAM 1 Core Amd CPI and 50GB HDD but it’s enough for single users. You get a static wan IP.
I'm out of the loop. Why did they de-federate with other lemmy instances?
lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works both are basically a free-for-all to signup, and they were dealing with heavily increased amounts of trolls from those instances. They are currently in talks with the admins/mods of those instances to try to rectify the problem and re-federate, but to keep beehaw a safe space, where losers can't walk in off the street and acost their userbase, they needed to remove federation from these instances.
There are only a handful of full-time admin/mods for beehaw and they don't do this for a living, this is something they do on the side, for no pay. It is not in their best interest nor the best interest of the users to let hundreds of new accounts from an entirely different instance run roughshod over their server.
It is entirely reasonable. The user above will not "control their own experience" until they have started their own instance. How long until the admins they're currently under make a decision they don't like at u.fail? Who knows, could be days, could be years, but the thing is: it's likely.