Yeah, I'm about to the point where I'm just going to buy a domain and host my own email server.
kittenbridgeasteroid
joined 1 year ago
You're making the mistake of thinking that people who care about what the admins did are the majority of reddit users.
I'd give it a month, maybe 6 weeks, until everything is back to normal.
Yeah, tanking your valuation is the exact opposite of you want to do before going public. Not to mention that AFAIK pre-ipo stock buying isn't a thing.
It truly was humorous to hear people with absolutely no business education talk so confidently about how big of a mistake the execs made. As if people with advanced degrees in business and years of experience didn't know exactly what they were doing.
They knew they'd lose a few million subscribers, but they also knew the people they're losing were people that they weren't going to profit off of.
I also had a chuckle at people thinking that the current mod teams were the only people in the world who would be willing to exert control over millions of people for free.
The easiest way to program it would be using something like Esphome. I think Node Red is another tool that greatly simplifys things, but I haven't had the time to mess with it yet.
Yeah, it was a super shitty birthday present to wake up and realize I couldn't browse reddit while I woke up.
And like the other 10 companies that own pretty much every brand in the country.