“Protest and dissent is important,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the AP. “The problem with this one is it’s not going to change anything.”

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    I wish people would cut down with this noise(see what I did there). F him and his platform, coming here and having to read about him everyday, it kinda annoys me.

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      It was like this for a few months on Mastodon when Twitter did the same. At least spez doesn’t have any kind of celebrity status: I was able to go out with some friends last night and not a single person raised this topic. (A couple of them know what Reddit is, but none of them really use it much. And I’m sure no one in the group other than me knows who its CEO is.)

      I just hope we have a good network of people here after this story fizzles out of the news. I’d be happy with kbin never becoming as popular as Reddit, so long as there’s a healthy bunch of curious people sharing and discussing interesting links.

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        I think reddit is more replaceable than Twitter. It seems the stickiness of Twitter has to do with the specific individuals on there. People don’t want to leave not because they get news about famous people, but because the actual famous people are on there. And the famous people don’t get the same status recognition on other platforms, so they want to stay their too. I can get my news from anywhere, and reddit was just the best tool to facilitate that. Lots of communities used Reddit, but you can build that community other places too, reddit was just a really suitable place to do so.

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        Let’s be real, fedi’s favourite subject of discussion is itself, and its second favourite subject of discussion is how bad all the sites fedi is supposed to be a replacement for are.

        I’m hoping that dies down soon, one of the signs a site is doing well for users is that it stops with the navel-gazing shit.

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          If people posted their own OC instead of reddit threads this place would be dope.