Seeing this, or a similar one, was what made me realise there was no other plausible explanation for what he was doing.

I love the simple brilliance of “Elon Musk is a bellend”, nothing more really needs to be said.

I was thinking more of the community leaving 196@blahaj, and moving to onehundredninetysix@blahaj, that was a much more organic reaction.

Did you follow the 196 controversy at all? An entire community just upped sticks and left because they got shitty with the mods.

I can see an entire instance being largely abandoned in a matter of days if they got offside with their users badly enough. Add in the loss in traffic from being defederated by everyone, and it would be a big loss for whoever bought the instance.

I stopped browsing on my phone during the API debacle, I’d check in on my computer every so often, then I got sick of all the Reddit-ness of everything, deleted the bookmark, and haven’t been back.

Just stop going there. Delete the app, delete the bookmark, and move on with your life.

Just walk away, let it crumble, and accept the time and effort you put in are a sunk cost.

Perhaps make a pinned post saying what’s happening and why, a plug for the Fediverse, and leave.

I don’t think they’re going home any time soon either. Great to see.

I love that site.

There’s something you’re missing about this, and that’s how low quality the human generated content is on that site. The default subs are utter dumpster fires, with the top few comments typically being pop culture references being yelled into the ether, followed by unhinged rants, nutty takes, and assorted nonsense, all with poor spelling, grammar, and often the entirely wrong word used.

Flooding the place with AI content would be an improvement.

This is fault finding 101 for fire alarm systems.