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what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don't think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i'm not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Open the source, license it to the public, and federate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would agree, but would also accept at the very least not going public. Going public ruins companies in the long-term. Short term they have a bunch more capital to make improvements, but it eventually always spirals down until they are just money printers for the investors and don't care about anything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because the point of having such a huge website was always to make money. You need decentralization to remove some of that profit motive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think making profit is OK for a service I use every day, I'm not mad at that. It's more the making profit at the cost of all else that I don't really support

But you're right that no profit motive at all is the true ideal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is where I'm at. The only reason I ever joined Reddit is because of the centralization of the internet. Now I'm doing my part to keep building momentum for modern, free, and independent platforms.