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It's a concise quip for when one party in a relationship values the relationship a lot more than the other party. https://www.google.com/search?q=She's+not+tha
by paulmd 3y ago
It's a concise quip for when one party in a relationship values the relationship a lot more than the other party.
https://www.google.com/search?q=She's+not+that+into+you%2C+bro https://www.google.com/search?q=She's+not+that+into+you%2C+b...
"Reddit doesn't care about hobbyists as long as they get eyeballs scrolling their tiktok content" just isn't as catchy.
Anyway, that's the case here. There are a lot of people who are very emotionally attached to their posting, and it's a personal disaster for them to lose that. It is not, however, a disaster to Reddit - you can clearly see from the Q+A that Spez gets how upset people are and just doesn't care, they still will not change course and are even doubling down on killing the mobile website etc to further drive traffic to the native app. Very clearly they are making the decision that it's better to retain 75% or even 50% of their users and get them all on the app than to maintain the existing experience and not monetize the users effectively.
In this vein I 100% expect them to crack open any subreddits still closed after 48 hours and get the money moving again. Most people will come back. Or at least Reddit thinks most people will come back.
But generally, people value the content of their posting quite highly, because of the emotional connection. It's like a pawnshop, to you they're priceless heirlooms, to the guy behind the counter it's junk. It doesn't matter to Spez if you keep posting or not, and in the aggregate the odds are that you will.
And that's the emotional disconnect, users see a community they built and don't want to change or go away, and Spez sees a big 'ol cash pinata if he can turn it into Reddit-Shaped Tiktok. People feel they built something and contributed something value, and Spez feels that there are more cat-picture-uploaders and movie-quote-comment-chain posters where you came from. Your posts aren't an heirloom to him, they're junk.
Redditors think Spez can’t live without them - and he’s just not that into you. Making a big dramatic ultimatum is not gonna work.
This is Ycombinator we're posting on, and Spez/Reddit are the very first, the model YC alum. They're chasing money, not building a community, they don't care about you the way you care about them.
It sucks to get dumped but it’s over, and people are just making a scene because they can. At some point Reddit will get tired of it and call the cops (insert mods/reopen subreddits) and move on with their life.