tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.

  • kaitco@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t forget: they also deleted all messages pre-2023 with no notice.

    Spez has said that he admires Musk’s playbook with Twitter and aimed to model after it. Considering Twitter’s outlook, I would say I admired the stones on a man trying to launching the IPO like this, but if he had any real stones, he wouldn’t have pressed these viciously unpopular moves that will reduce engagement and destroy the site over time.

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      1 year ago

      I think the messages thing was more a limitation of the old platform. I looked into it once to see if I could replicate Reddit chats outside of the app/website and it all went through a 3rd party who didn’t expose any api, had terrible latency and throughput issues and constantly broke.

      The new system will be just as bad, just now Reddit will control it.

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        1 year ago

        There is no set of raw data that cannot be laundered into a new system.

        They removed the messages because they wanted to.