I've been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a "they can't make me use their shitty app!" while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away...
I'm sure if they had handled it with more honesty and been up front about the fact that they're choosing to kill third party apps for business reasons some of the frogs who left would probably have stuck around to be boiled for a little longer, but I personally believe that it's the ethos behind the decision that most people are responding to more than the decision itself or the way it was communicated.
The creep of enshittification just became too much to ignore at that point and the enshittified path forward became crystal clear. Reddit signaled to everyone paying attention that decisions will continue to be made based on what makes money rather than what's in the interests of users.
Yes, my KBin experience is worse than my Reddit experience as it is today but I have confidence that my KBin (or other ActivityPub based platform I may choose to migrate to) experience will improve as time moves on while my Reddit experience would have continued to degrade. When that became undeniable to me I choose to pull the cord and start fresh now rather than wait until the rise of one met the fall of the other.
If you, like I was, are unfamiliar with what Roblox is and how it is an unbelievably shitty and exploitative company, People Make Games did a couple of videos on it:
Make it a NSFW sub to mess with their advertising. Something like only allowing pictures of dominatrix culture with the titles being dominatrix-style commands.
I love the platitudes about democracy and democratic values from Reddit's dictator. He wants to pretend he just wants to let the users to decide, I'll believe that when he puts his own job up for a vote among Reddit's users.
beehaw is still federated with kbin.social but they've recently dropped lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. They have a page that shows where they're linked and where they're not: https://beehaw.org/instances
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
Now, dear The Node reader, what does all this have to do with crypto? Or how can it help you earn money? Well, depending on how the situation shakes out it could have a few implications for crypto as a social movement. Obviously, the ability for a company to make unilateral decisions that severely affect users is a Big Plus for...
Obviously, the ability for a company to make unilateral decisions that severely affect users is a Big Plus for a movement that is advocating for transparency, open access and user control. Perhaps an enterprising lad, laddess or ladx could build the next Reddit, only decentralized.
And as we all know, you need crypto to do decentralization; it's the only way.
Reddit just today made my decision super easy. I reported an off topic post in /r/politics, the mods agreed with that and removed the post for being off topic, and then a few hours later my account was permanently banned by the admins for "Report Abuse"
So that's nice. 14 year old account just permanently banned for... trying to help the quality of the content on the site. I see no reason to ever go back now.
If Reddit phased out 3rd party apps gradually and tactfully, do you think this would have gone the way it has? The Reddit app is terrible, but is it any worse than navigating and learning the fediverse so far? Be honest.
I've been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a "they can't make me use their shitty app!" while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away...
Roblox invites its community to build mature experiences for 17+ users (techcrunch.com)
I was wondering when they'd get round to the smaller subreddits
Mark Zuckerberg goes in for the kill as Elon Musk’s Twitter bleeds ad dollars (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Brands fed up with the instability at Twitter may flock to Meta's new offering...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else read this? The arrogance is palpable.
It's still "fun", but (lemmy.world)
I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
The Reddit boycott is good for crypto - CoinDesk (www.coindesk.com)
Now, dear The Node reader, what does all this have to do with crypto? Or how can it help you earn money? Well, depending on how the situation shakes out it could have a few implications for crypto as a social movement. Obviously, the ability for a company to make unilateral decisions that severely affect users is a Big Plus for...
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ (www.theverge.com)
Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period....