And why did it shut down and have to be replaced by r/196 ?
And why did it shut down and have to be replaced by r/196 ?
I’m on kbin too and I can see the alt text in the raw HTML:
<img src=“https://kbin.social/media/cache/resolve/post\_thumb/51/85/51859cfc559d9aedfa1bec8e33bbb76fd6c3c6d8b8eaf0ee854a68164df83780.jpg” alt=“A machine displaying 108.6 onions per minute. The image is captioned "Tony Abbott’s Mouth".”>
However, my browser isn’t showing me the alt text in the tooltip.
I mean maybe that’s the plan. He tried to back out of buying Twitter because he knew it would hurt him - now he’s trying to extract as much wealth as possible from Twitter before making it self-destruct, so he at least breaks even and can pay all that debt back without taking any losses himself.
Talk about out of touch.
I’m not too worried either way. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38559/Killing-a-giant-Reddit - basically whatever happens, happens, and just by being here and not there, the end will probably be accomplished given due time.
Actually I’m skeptical about this. There were some other posts pointing out huge upvotes happening during the blackout, and others noticing a surge of bot followers appearing.
So I’m not sure that I trust those numbers at this point.
The other point is - it’s too soon to tell. But if advertisers and investors start having second thoughts about Reddit then that hurts the IPO.
The key isn’t in how many subs come back or how many folks return. It’s about getting Reddit’s attention by affecting what they care about most so that they have to start listening to their users again.
Too soon to tell, but that just means that at this point in time, it’s not a failure. Have hope!
I think the service charge bit, that is widespread as an alternative to tipping in Europe, makes a lot of sense in general.
Key word in the above sentence is: alternative