We tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter They had to fall - to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter

So long and thanks for all the fish, we’re all lemmings now.

  • morgan423@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They kind of brought this on themselves. Tens of thousands of users shouting at them to step back away from the ledge, you don’t have to do this, back up and change course… And Reddit just looked at us blankly and jumped right off.

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      1 year ago

      While following Twitter, which also jumped off first (the difference is, they had a parachute - as in they were public going private, while spez wanted to go the exact opposite direction), and now Stackoverflow is doing it too.

      Hey, I got an idea: lets all follow them - surely this time it’ll all work out and be different from all those other times when it did not, right!? :-P

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        Stackoverflow is in trouble anyway. With GPT-4 there’s hardly a reason for users to visit it. At least not for problems that existed before Sep 2021.