r/technology • u/abrownn • Feb 02 '25

Social Media Elon Musk takes aim at Reddit

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-reddit-x-links-nazi-salute-2024281
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u/FigWasp7 Feb 02 '25

There's some truly lovely, talented, and generous people across many subreddits. I think many would leave, but man it really would be a huge bummer

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u/Practical_Attorney67 Feb 02 '25

Other communities would pop up if reddit went belly up. Online forums are not a requirement for anything. Reddit is bad already in many ways, one being the "votes" that make mediocracy the goal for many. 

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u/pantzareoptional Feb 02 '25

I mean when reddit was made public recently, a bunch of subreddits "went dark" in protest, people deleted their comments en masse, people suggested moving to various other platforms and yet.... Here we still are.

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u/One-Two-Woop-Woop Feb 03 '25

Reddit has gone down the shitter over the past few years. The vast majority of /r/all shit is now bot-reposted garbage. At least the reposted shit used to be by humans.