• I see a lot of people saying let this happen. I acknowledge that reddit has also sort of lost their point but a lot of people have put countless hours into building stuff both on communities and as devs building apps like redreader and rif. I don’t want to see all of those people basically lose all their effort and work because a company decided to make money.

    • Thats a sunk cost fallacy though.

      Reddit isnt going to get better and the admins/exec are just going to keep pushing policies like this because their primary motivation is to make money and they desperately want to hold a Reddit IPO.

      The best options is for all those subs to export as much as they can to create a read only archive then head elsewhere where they control their own data.

      • Sure, as it’s evident from us interacting here I’ve been trying to move on the alternatives, though nothing has sprung upto replace niche subreddits that I used to browse.

        Ultimately my point was not that what reddit was doing was right. It was that it is easy to take joy in a company that has let greed take over try to fail but in doing so don’t forget to have some empathy for countless volunteers who put in time and effort to build something worthwhile. It’s their stuff that’s being burnt too.

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          I take no pleasure in what the impact is going to be with numerous communities but I will admit that I’m gleefully rubbing my hands watching the admins make a complete pigs ear of yet another situation.

          My comment was more about just how many times will people get shitted on by the admins (Ive commented elsewhere just some of the awful and horrific situations they have caused or failed to act upon) before they realise that the admins are going to repeatedly carry out the same kind of behaviours and it is not the best place for them.

          Its long overdue time to gather what they can carry and abandon ship.