Why is this not the default behaviour?

Did you mean recursion?

I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.

By making this post you are helping us keep the bean memes alive. Good job Beanie Sanders.

They try to justify this by claiming they’re not profitable, while at the same time wasting so much time and money on terrible features and changes.

The reason why Reddit is not profitable is because of terrible management that tries to justify their existence.

That’s exactly why they want you to use it.

Beaned out loud*

/u/spez desperately making beans post on Reddit, trying to not feel left out

B-beans

Lemmy is open source and federated so cannot be bought. The fediverse is what the Internet was supposed to be.

Beans

Wiping his tears with money

Those stories are most likely fake so nothing was lost.

I was using i.reddit.com during this period. The default mobile website was completely unusable.

Of course, they recently removed i.reddit.com, similar to the third party apps. They achieved the desired user growth and are now transitioning into the aggressive monetization phase.

Good luck making money off of me while I’m using Lemmy instead of Reddit.

At this point in time, reddit cares about numbers, not competency. It doesn’t matter If a sub (or the entire site) degrades over time, as long as IPO numbers are maximized so they can cash in.

I was expecting some humility, admission of faults and an olive branch.

Instead, the CEO just doubled down and comes to the AMA with canned, smug responses. What a joke.

I commend the shutdown but if things get out of hand reddit admins will take over the popular subs. They won’t let a prime sub get shut down by mods.

Reddit is losing it’s most precious users: power users, technical users, veteran users, etc

Open sourcing won’t do much because the value of reddit are its users, not the code.

They would have to join the fediverse to rebuild to trust but of course there is 0% chance of that because their focus is $$$.

I agree with you that the feeling of no keymaster if very liberating.

Spot on. Lemmy is how the Internet was supposed to be.