Honestly, at this point I don't know if they even gave more time and a lower API cost that it would bring me back over to reddit. They showed their "profits over community" stance and I just don't want to play with their toys anymore.
Yup. Even if they offered free API again, I am not going back. They've really showed their true colours. Aaron Swartz would be rolling in his grave if he could see what spaz has done to reddit.
Ditto. But I think the author of Apollo is right - I can easily see many subs, mods, and regular users happily re-embracing Reddit once they do the 180 with proper apologies and so on.
Alas, the benefits of decentralization are not understood by all.
On the other hand, I also don't see much sign that Reddit is going to take a single step in that direction - everything seems to be pointing the other way right now.
I have other redditor friends who only engage NSFW content on reddit, so as long as that corner of reddit is undisturbed, one of them to me he has no plans to leave. In fact, his tailored front page is so predominantly NSFW, it totally was news to him when I started asking him about his views on the API debate on June 10th. He had no idea a symbolic protest was even scheduled.
If you consider how many subreddits enacted karma minimums in order to participate, I can't for the life of me imagine starting reddit Day 0 all over again and trying to get enough karma to start having legitimate fun there, again.
Same. Seeing his copy/paste answers (literally) makes it near impossible for me to go back. The company clearly exists to now extract as much value from the users as possible. I didn't go there to be part of an LLM or an advertisers focus group, I went there for the community. If the community moves elsewhere, I have no problem dropping it. If the community stays, I'll build what I can here.
I’ve been thinking since after the AMA, it would have to be more than “we’re walking back most of the pricing to something reasonable”, it has to include Steve Huffman resigning.
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