Indefinite Blackout: Next Steps, Polling Your Community, and Where We Go From Here
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On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit app now operating, from...

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they’ve got another thing coming…

  •  pbjamm   ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English
    5•1 year ago

    Not even then.

    For me the Lemmyverse fills the same space. Like Usenet back in the Before Time. Even if Reddit were to do a complete 180/mea culpa I would no longer have a need for them, and the longer it goes on the more users will be comfortable here.

    •  Seatech   ( @Seatech@lemmy.ca ) English
      3•1 year ago

      Agreed, it seems like if Lemmy improved their mod tools this will be even better than reddit. I was starting to feel doom whenever going on reddit and lemmy and the fediverse feels more like the community I wanted reddit to be.

      •  DownloadMode   ( @DownloadMode@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
        3•1 year ago

        Would be cool if we could get a decent app for Android too but TBH I’m not complaining.

        Honestly, opportunity abounds. During great change is when money is made. Someone could easily make a quality app, put it on the stores for $1 or $2 to support their work, and it would be worth it.

      •  pbjamm   ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English
        1•1 year ago

        I was starting to feel doom whenever going on reddit

        This exactly. Reddit was already losing its luster for me when this debacle started. I created myself a lurker account so that I would not be tempted to engage in comment threads because doing so just was not enjoyable like when i joined 11 yrs ago. It slowly became like the abhorrent Youtube comments section.