Can someone explain why going dark for 48 hours would make Reddit's response unexpected? Basically they just need to bear 48 hours and then no consequences? What's the motivation to overturn the API decision?
Already deleted my account. Feels good. The more I think about it, the more the fediverse feels like a saviour for the internet. It should be a no brainer that any single company that makes a social media will sooner or later try to do anything they can to profit 110% from their users.
Lemmy and other decentralized plattforms seems more like how the internet is supposed to be. No one owns any greater part of it. This is history in the making, the time we got the internet back!
I am so hesitant to delete my Reddit account. I've had it for 12 years and there is a small bit of me that hopes they will fire u/spez and go back to the Reddit I have loved for so long. As long as he is around though I won't be going back and it really does feel as though they have killed a giant.
Yeah, I'll keep my account but my eyeballs aren't going to be there nearly as often. Just like I still check Fark out once in a while but don't stick around long.
11 years on reddit and seeing its long slow decline its just sad. A return to the basics was very necessary. Removing subs from r/all, messing with the voting, "new" reddit, a clamp down on content...it just kept getting worse and worse. As long as I could use RIF and old.reddit it was fine, but the writing is on the wall at this point.
While most of their users are used to the newer layout from other social media, my goal was always to see the most number of posts I could on a single page and have a clean ad-free experience. Lemmy seems to get this
The statement from r/watchredditdie when they closed the sub really put things in perspective for me.
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have gone so far as to renege on their promise of listing Aaron Swartz among Reddit, Inc's founders. Such an egregious breach of contract - only performed once their agreed-upon co-founder no longer walked the earth - could only be carried out by immoral individuals acting in fundamental bad faith. In this way and so many others, Reddit is dead.
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