honestly, i see this as a good thing. if reddit had walked back the changes, they would just find other more subtle ways to be greedy and hurt people down the line. it's dead! we're moving on to more ethical and truly free platforms.
Well seems Greedy little Pigboy Steve huffman has got exactly the same Spirt as his fellow Redditors when it comes to the Strike, just means we'll have to continue forward and follow through to, The main effort current moderators should start working on is to help migrate as many people as possible to services like kbin and Lemmy, also to people who are Reddit mods, here's a tip: Make an Example of all the people saying that, Protests are stupid, aren't going to work, are a waste of time, you're gonna come crawling back etc. Ban them permenantly from your communities and call them out (in a mod-distinguished reply to their infringing message) as the trolls and scabs they are and show that this behavior isn't rewarded with status, dignity, or reputation.
Accidentally visited once out of force of habit. Honestly, visiting just once and reading one thread before realizing isn't half bad for something that was a daily, constant habit
What a stupid take. “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable”. What if, I don't know, maybe... make the official app actually good so it becomes a viable competitor to the most used 3P apps? Then they would make money just like them, but no, they don't want fair competition, they want the whole cake. I really hope reddit dies.
Or have a fair price on their API. There were many things they could've done and still be profitable, but they decided to nuke everything. After they also lied about Christian, I too hope Reddit burns.
Anyone else around that was originally a Digg user? No matter how huge these sites get they can still implode from dumb decisions like Reddit is now making, even if it might not be overnight.
I do love the idea that this might finally push us into something more decentralised and not onto yet another huge centralised corporation site.
I was a Digg guy back in the day that fled for Reddit. This feels the same, however during the Digg meltdown we were fortunate that Reddit came around at the right time and was ready to take over for Digg with very little barrier to entry since it was familiar
Nothing really exists like that at the moment to take over from Reddit. There are things that are close but nothing like Reddit was to Digg.
I don’t love the fact that they discuss the blackmail allegation and then leave out the fact that Christian had a recording to disprove this. I’m glad they said he disputed it, but when there are tapes… you should probably say there are tapes.
behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally
Not sure if this is just spez talking about himself, not the Apollo dev. I also love that it also then adds like a "how dare they release the tapes proving me wrong". Maybe they wouldn't have to if you didn't try to pull this shit. Honestly it does sound bad in the recording with the contextual areas removed, but with full context you can see a point was trying to be made via a hypothetical about how if reddit truly believes these API prices are reasonable, such an "investment" by reddit would be considered a financial win for them. But its not, because the API prices are unreasonable and they know it. And spez fully apologizes in the call for misunderstanding, yet ignores that when he brings it up later. Scummy.
And I will stick to migrate away from Reddit then. Not that I truly believed anything would change. If anything they'd backpedal to just try it another time again.
Must admit I loved Reddit but the greed of the ceo and utter ignorance of the community meant when I saw the banning of the post about how to migrate to kbin I knew this would be the new reddit
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