Hi all! What’s your opinion? Let’s pretend reddit would give in to the protest and cancel the plan to increase the API pricing. Would all of you go back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy?
I mean… what has been said by the CEO cannot be unsaid now. We all now know what we are in the eyes of the CEO.
If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.
But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.
So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.
I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.
I think they’ll weather it. But once third party clients go there’s really nothing left to stop them going into full user-hostile monetisation mode. So next will be old Reddit, more ads, maybe the mobile site finally gets removed, nsfw banned, etc.
They’ll kill themselves in the process of trying to look profitable for an IPO.
I would be on both. I’m assuming that CEO isn’t long for that position but we’ll see. Reddit survives though. It’s really a small mod protest with the majority of casual users not caring about it. However the scab mods that will end up being put in place will soon realize how hard this volunteer job is and may never know how the alt apps assisted so well with it. I think the best thing subs could do at this point is open up and let the spam fly TBH.
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I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.
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It will linger on for some time but I see it ending up like facebook.
“Ending up like Facebook” is framed as a bad thing here, but it’s an amazingly great outcome if you’re a Reddit executive or investor. Facebook may have fallen out of favor among the kinds of people who post on Lemmy, but it is massively profitable and is either the #2 or #3 most visited site on the Internet depending on whether you count YouTube as part of Google. Reddit would love to fail like that!
The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it’s understandable: they’re a giant platform on the web, but they’re unprofitable - they’d like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I’ve already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.
My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This “mass exodus” is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don’t care. But I’m enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I’m just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.
Maybe if reddit didn’t spend millions a year delivering images and videos through i.reddit and v.reddit instead of letting the perfectly viable 3rd party platforms continue to like they had 8+ years previously they wouldn’t be bleeding money for quite literally no reason.
I think there’s room for both. Lots of people don’t care about all the API drama or about what the CEO says in interviews, and there are easily enough of those people to maintain critical mass. But I think Lemmy isn’t far off from also having critical mass in enough communities to have some staying power.
I’m now checking Lemmy before I check reddit when I want my doom-scrolling fix. But I still visit Reddit, even if less often than I used to, because it still has some unique communities that don’t have analogs anywhere else. For example, there is no fediverse equivalent of /r/AskHistorians (that I’m aware of).
People will keep using Reddit until an easier alternative arises. Most people don’t care about any of the benefits the fediverse offers, they just want a service that’s easy to use and delivers content to them, that’s it.
I tried migrating when voat got popular and for awhile I used both. Voat started attracting worse and worse people though so eventually I left.
I would probably use both and hopefully Lemmy can avoid voats fate.
Wasn’t the main selling point of voat the “free speech” angle? It would make sense that it would attract people whose speech got them banned from other social media.
The Fediverse’s selling point is “not run by corporate greed-heads,” which is going to attract a different demographic.
