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From the article:
Meanwhile, the blackout has affected Reddit in other important ways. There’s been a small, but growing push among some power users to federated Reddit alternatives like Lemmy and kbin. These decentralized platforms are still niche, and have many of the same challenges as Mastodon and other Twitter alternatives. Yet there seems to be growing interest from some corners of Reddit in recent weeks.
- brandonmarkb ( @brandonmarkb@beehaw.org ) English54•1 year ago
So ironic that he talks about getting something for free when literally all the content is also provided to Reddit for free.
- NotAnArdvark ( @NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca ) English28•1 year ago
“These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free,” he said in an interview with The Verge.
I find this an irritating statement. Before this shit-show, I would have paid ~$5 /month to keep using Reddit the way I was. I got huge value from all the different communities - and their history - that Reddit made possible. But they never made that a real option and instead burnt a lot of bridges.
- TheDefiant604 ( @TheDefiant604@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
I think he is mad, because for years he’s been getting all this content for free…
- 567PrimeMover ( @567PrimeMover@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
I wonder how upset he would get if mods start demanding compensation for their free labor
- kobra ( @kobra@readit.buzz ) 7•1 year ago
Yeah spez could have easily cashed in on a lot of money with Apollo and the other 3rd party apps if they worked together. So glad he chose this path though, fuck him.
- itchy_lizard ( @itchy_lizard@feddit.it ) English5•1 year ago
Of course they’re talking about the Reddit getting content for free, right?
- CookieJarObserver ( @CookieJarObserver@feddit.de ) English17•1 year ago
I think they got things wrong, this protest now is mostly about just fucking reddit up majorly, mods have the power to do that and if reddit mistreats them even more they likely just leave and never come back. its completely ridiculous to think that you can mistreat people that do your work because they like it and they will just bend over for you. These people have 0 legal obligations towards reddit and reddit can’t be unmoderated… Otherwise people will flood it with Child Porn.
- toadmode ( @toadmode@beehaw.org ) English19•1 year ago
Otherwise people will flood it with Child Porn
reddit returning to its roots
- CookieJarObserver ( @CookieJarObserver@feddit.de ) English7•1 year ago
💀
- gapbetweenus ( @gapbetweenus@feddit.de ) English13•1 year ago
I think in the corporate world chefs are just used to mistreating people and they just taking it because they need the job. Obviously does not work with volunteers.
- CookieJarObserver ( @CookieJarObserver@feddit.de ) English5•1 year ago
Absolutely
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@beehaw.org ) English16•1 year ago
That’s nice to get a bit of media coverage. I do agree with the article’s assessment of “small but growing” communities, and that it consists of many power users and tech hobbyists, considering that the active user ratio overall is above 10%.
- Killer_Tree ( @Killer_Tree@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
I think the key is element is that these new communities are “growing”. If they can get and maintain a critical mass of users to provide enough content and interactions to remain viable, then they can continue to develop as alternatives.