This was this missing link in all of this. I have no idea, especially after the AMA when it became 100% clear Reddit would never change course with the API, that subreddit mods didn’t redirect people to discord/Lemmy/etc.
I have no idea why tech companies do this. Especially tech companies that aren’t even profitable yet. You’re not in the nft business and you will never be in the nft business. Improve your actual product, get profitable, then go with the dumb stuff like that.
Awwww I want these as plushies haha
My brain to me be like:
Still the number one result when you google Lemmy lol. We have a hell of a long way to go
Firefox mobile with uBlock origin is a fucking godsend, the mobile web is nigh unusable without it because of ads.
Yeah, honestly whether or not they back down or some solution is reached regarding the current situation, they will not stop aggressively monetizing users. A lot of veteran users will leave, some will stay or come back eventually, but I think pretty much every veteran user will be gone permanently if they get rid of old Reddit.
This is what doesn’t make sense to me. You want to cut down on reply bots? Sure, they’re kinda annoying anyway. You want to do other things to limit the API? Ok. But to just outright make the price so high as to make it impossible to pay? They’re literally losing millions of users like you. A lot of Apollo users will NEVER install the official app or use new Reddit. It just seems like the dumbest decision ever. Maybe they’ve got data that most new sign ups are from tiktok/Facebook/Instagram. So they’re just going to ride out the wave until active user count is back at what it was. It just seems extremely dumb to basically tank they’re active user count especially as they’re trying to do an IPO.
Idk, I understand what you mean but seriously if you’re a police officer/journalist/academic, you should NOT be taking seriously what someone wrote totally anonymously with 0 evidence beyond the text to back it up. When the Daily Fail organizes their fascist reader base on a crusade based on an anonymous Reddit post (idk if it’s ever happened, probably), that’s not the posters fault.
Yeah, exactly. Plus, people that are good writers or at least have been through the evolution of “this post got attention let’s write more like that” will always get more upvotes due to said evolution over actually true stories.
It’s like wow what a surprise that shit like: “AITA: I slept with my sister’s boyfriend” was fake (Before they banned quasi porn submissions, lol)
This is what I fear totally as well. I really hope mods start thinking about promoting alternatives, through whatever channels they can that won’t get removed (there’s already rumours they are removing/suppressing mentions of Lemmy or alternatives). I’ve never been a mod, but to just pack up and shut it down totally, to eventually be replaced by admin appointed power hungry mods, it seems like an abandonment of a community you and others have spent years building. I know discord is not the same as Reddit, but at least then there’s a place to regroup whilst you figure out an alternative.
“no revenue impact so far” how is it possible to be this short sighted? Of course people using the official app and website without adblock won’t have gone anywhere. It wasn’t every subreddit, they’re probably just wondering why so many aren’t working. But if this continues, and tbh the damage is already done for a lot of people, users and moderators who generate the content and make the site usable for the zombies will leave and it will just become twitter 2.0, an increasingly bad shitshow, some subreddits will be left with no quality submissions at all.
Also: “still in conversation” with other third party apps? The entire point was to make the price so high they’d have to shut down. Plausible deniability I guess, and those other third party apps with way less users will probably just be able to sell subscriptions (can’t even use ads, though)
Maybe it was a tactic to actually piss them off more and then they can use the excuse “we can’t have our site shut off indefinitely” and then they can re open the subs and replace them
Lol, it must be bad when I’m genuinely the thinking this isn’t a bad idea. Google, yeah that company. It wouldn’t cost that much to run anyway and would probably be helpful to them as you say.
Yeah, that really fucking annoyed me. The TTS is just unbearable and grating. What happened to just talking?
It will be no problem at all to find mods, what will be hard is finding good mods. You’ll have a lot of people who have 0 experience or are just genuine assholes moderating
Yeah this is what I keep thinking. Most people don’t contribute at all, and there’s “power submitters” who do most of the posts and top comments. With them gone, who’s actually gonna make content for people to view?
Unfortunately yeah :/ a few people I’ve talked to support the blackout but have never heard of Lemmy or the fediverse and presumably have no alternative
Fuck me, what a nightmare. Having to pay a huge subscription fee (it’s absolute minimum 5 dollars a month which is a fucking lot for a formerly free service) and then you can’t even use it that much.