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It was a fun run but sadly Reddit Admins have the only thing that matters now.. power. They will ban everyone in their way and replace them with some puppet or someone who doesn't care about the api fiasco. Most of them will cave in. They have no choice, because they don't hold any real power to attempt a coup. You know who should quit? Users. But they obviously don't care about the cause enough. Imagine if everyone quit for a month ..
I care. Charging for high API use wasn't an unreasonable move in principle, just, the details were bullshit and it got rolled out in a totally donkey brained way. But that wasn't necessarily a deal breaker for me in and of itself. I stopped using reddit because of the temper tantrum & threats that the admins threw at mods and their coordination efforts.
And anyway it's death by a thousand cuts. Over time, all these little changes to the platform slowly make it worse for the user. The big social media companies have completely lost touch. They're more concerned with these abstract concepts like engagement and growth, instead of focusing on nurturing a good place for users to be. Well, what do they think? That the users are hostage? That we can't leave?
I hope nobody forgets how the CEO of reddit tried to slander Apollo's creator saying he tried to blackmail them for millions of dollars, and then evidence was brought that showed he is a liar (didn't realize the call was recorded)
Or that he modded the jailbait subreddit.
Lots of good reasons to bag on Spez, but this isn't one. That was way back in the day when anyone could be added as a moderator without consent.
Fair cop.
Yes, but he chose to stay listed as a moderator there. That's consent.
It’s kind of reflective of the world right now - USA probably. Those in power are happily steamrolling the rights of disenfranchised people for money, while said people simply grumble but only change the channel. As long as there’s streaming, they stay in their lane.
Should be out in the streets!
All these people saying "who cares about Reddit" (or Twitter, or Threads, or whatever else) are also missing the fact that we live in a society and these platforms matter, politically speaking. If we allow them to become (or remain) fiefdoms for rich fucks to spread misinformation, that can have real-word detrimental effects for us no matter how much we try to ignore the platform. Don't forget that this shit is happening just before the 2024 US presidential election, for example. Do we really want to be tolerating a Reddit-turned-into-Voat right about now?
It isn't enough just to leave Reddit; it needs to be destroyed, too.
Imagine if everyone used something like https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite to edit, then delete, their comments first?
Then ran it a few more times across a week or so, changing the edit message each time?
Sorry if I'm being dense, but what would be the point of that?
The value of reddit is in the content posted, and discussed, by the users. Help requested and given in the form if user posts/replies.
If you edit and delete your content then reddit losses value. Edit to ensure that the backup doesn’t contain the old content, delete to remove it.
Do it a few times just to make sure.
Realistically, if all of the TPA-users quit, Reddit would not notice such a huge difference. I came from Reddit and used RIF for like 10ish years, and not going back to Reddit now. Most users don't care about the API change other then that some of their subreddits where down for 2 days. TPA combined had like 15(?) million users (on android) and the official app had like 100++ million users?
Seriously. At this point it's becoming delusional; the idea that TPA users have any impact on the outcome of the site as a whole is ludicrous.
Be glad Lemmy exists and move the fuck on.