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I literally just signed up for lemmy after reading this post on reddit. I’m ready for reddit to crash. Decentralized apps seem like the way to go. It seems super short-sighted on Reddit’s part to be basically extorting all these 3rd party apps that are super popular.
Unfortunately, I doubt Reddit would crash. I don't think these online protests have much sway anymore. Twitter's definitely didn't. And ironically, Lemmy might crash a couple times with going over user capacity...
Either way, we ought to work to avoid it. Chop chop, people, content, we need content! Lifeblood of link aggregators is people having topics.
I think the thought of major subs going private out of protest has them at least a little worried. Worried enough to try to backtrack on the changes that will affect moderators to "give them more time", but only if they don't participate in the blackout.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/143rk5p/reddit_held_a_call_today_with_some_developers/jnbjtsc/
Sounds a lot like threatening at this point (and who knows if they'll follow through with their promises if even one sub goes dark), which ironically is the same thing they accused the Apollo dev of doing to the Reddit team.
How would that even work though? Say Sub A participates in the blackout while Sub B doesn't, if they backtrack and don't start charging for API access how would they reward Sub B while excluding Sub A? Also this all depends on 3rd party apps continuing to operate to even allow these mods to use them for moderating purposes so if Apollo and Sync shut down, there's nothing reddit can do to change or delay their closure since they aren't controlled by reddit. Sounds like a bunch of desperate, empty promises on reddit's part.
Oh I absolutely agree that it sounds like empty, desperate promises on their behalf at this point. I think it's safe to say (given the OP) that Reddit has ruined every ounce of credibility and good-will they may have had as a result of their lies and backtracking. I wouldn't trust them one bit with their attempts at garnering more good-will at this point.
why did you share the old reddit site
I'm always amazed when I see someone using new reddit or the official app. I just don't understand how, it's soooo bad
I don't know... 50% of their top advertisers have left, and their advertising income is down 60%. I'm no longer there, so I can't speak to overall user engagement, but with their revenue cratering, I'm not sure how long it is destined for this world.
Even if Twitter and Reddit don't completely crash like Digg did, making them "just one among several" will be a good thing in the long run. They'll actually have competition for a change.
The thing about social media sites is that they never truly and permanently die, they just slowly languish into irrelevance.
MySpace still exists for example, as does AOL, Tumblr, and yes, DIGG.. However to say they are shells of their former selves would be an understatement.
It took 5 years after Facebook opened up to the general punic for MySpace to fall to the point of having to sell out to another company. We are still in the early days when it comes to seeing if Musk will effectively kill Twitter.
If reddit starts to die we won't notice for quite some time. We will at most see waves of people leaving months or years apart and then one day reddit will just find itself basically forgotten about.
There is a thing, twitter has already had an okay and quite usable official app alongside third party apps. Reddit official app is buggy as hell and not very intuitive. I think too Reddit will survive, but I think the quality of content is going to go down since many power users were using third party apps.
But for Reddit officials that wouldn’t be a problem since they don’t care for quality but for engagement.
I think this is the point that will be a negative for the remaining users AND something that Reddit doesn't care about. Good quality content will slowly stop going there.... but the repost bots and other shit reposts will continue, allowing people to continue to consume content. Which is the real reason Reddit is doing all of this. 3rd party apps allow their users to bypass advertisers, which have noticed or complained and Reddit has to squash it.
For me, Lemmy is quality over quantity since I'll interact with like-minded people - aka the users that care enough to move away from reddit.
It's not all about numbers.
Welcome! It's a bit rough around the edges here but the devs are making changes every day and the community is better than I thought.
Indeed it is. All I really want is a place where I can intellectually engage with people in good faith, even when people disagree with me; finding it productive, fun and maybe learning a thing or two. Constantly being called a "bigot," "fascist," "asshole," "idiot," "moron," really leaves it wanting.
This you?
Indeed.
Try having openly right-wing leanings, and maybe you'll understand it. I don't go around making presumptions about people. But when the person I'm replying to chooses to lead with condescension and sanctimony, then fine. I'll oblige him and reply in kind. Incidentally, 'it gets the point across'.
Honestly the rough parts remind me of the good old days of the internet. I'm no gatekeeper but I'm happy when sites are smaller, focused, and slow to grow.
Exactly! For the first 5 seconds, I was pissed that I couldn't send a reply with Ctrl+Enter, but it just reminded me of the good old days of being part of and building a community from scratch and I love it!
I'm one of those that nuked my Reddit account too... Was a Boost user for many, many years. Tens of thousands of contributions in the way of posts and comments and this move by them was the straw that broke the camel. The place is a shell of what it was in the early days sadly. Year by year it's seemingly declined.
I'm done with it and moving on to pastures a new :)
So far, I'm really impressed with Lemmy !
Well, i'll wait till 1th july and nuke my account if my app won't work.
Fair enough ! I have been wanting to leave the place for a while so this was kind of the perfect excuse really :)
It's actually been quite refreshing the last day or so sussing out a new corner of the web...
It's the curse of VC funding. Companies love the cash injection, but it inevitably is followed by the demand to quadruple revenue and extract every ounce of capital out of the product. VCs destroy good products for capital. I'm glad to have discovered Lemmy and I hope the general Fediverse world of web applications continues to spread and get more of a foothold. It's way better for users in the end.