Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits

They have TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE working at Reddit and Memmy for Lemmy is a superior product with how many people working on it?? 3?

Spez is an impossibly incompetent Elon Musk wannabe (the person who just flushed $44 BILLION down the toilet due to incompetence). He needs to be drawn and quartered tbh

The funny thing is... for me it wasn't even the API changes, it was how Steve reacted to the community feedback. If you need to make your app profitable that's fine by me, but don't ignore your customers so bluntly. They could've easily worked politely with devs to find an agreeable API price, find alternative funding streams for those devs, etc. They did none of that, instead Steve acted like a jerk.

This is what the API protests revealed as well, as a mod team could decide to go dark without input from its own users

No, just no. Nearly all mod teams had polls about this, and all of those polls with dominating majority selected to shut down. Who is this guy? Is he getting paid by Reddit? If anything the protests revealed that Reddit admins would do anything, including disbanding the moderator teams to bring subreddits back, to suppress protests.

I'd argue reddit lost their identity days ago. Several iconic communities and features died with the API slaughter. Now it's just another link aggregator without the things that made reddit unique.

The blatant astroturfing is what really icked me out. From day one of the API changes, it was clear that Reddit had spun up the spin machine and had begun to misrepresent the issues.

The main one was how they tried to push the "they just want the API for free", "we're entitled to charge for our services" narrative.

Already gone. We Lemmy now.

Reddit lost its identity a long time ago. It is no longer the place Aaron Schwartz made it to be.

They've already lost their identity. The parties over, spez has turned it into corporate garbage no better than Instagram

Too late? It already has. Where are the volunteers who contributed precious time to it?… im certainly gone.

Too late for that already right? Just like imgur, correct?

Lemme fix that title, s/risks losing/lost

There ya go :D

I've contributed and made more replies on here than I ever did on reddit in a decade. Feels a bit more genuine and accessible. Also trying to close the door on insta, my only other social. Tired of that shit.

Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having a billion dollars in advertising dollars coming in every year? And someone thinks that spez should remain in charge?

Reddit basically lost any semblance of respect the community should have for it. You know, the people who give them all their content and do all their moderation for free.

Fuck 'em high.

Whatever they've lost, they still retain their hard-earned reputation as being a cesspit of trolls and bigots.

Risks? They already have. FUCK Spez & Reddit. The latter had a good run but I’ll be happy to watch it burn as greedy spezbags deserve whatever shitstorm happens next.

The lost this a while back because they wanted to turn into a social media platform like twitter and facebook. It was originally set to oppose those things and we made memes about those platforms and then we ended up becoming one. Will reddit die? No, i dont think so. But just like Facebook i'll just not use it.

This article is mostly useless. It states the problem, but doesn't have anything new to add.

They have a new identity that they keep reinforcing with every new decision. They've lost their previous identity and become just another web service looking to get the most money possible out of the users they can still attract.

Who cares. IT WILL BE MAKING PROFITS!

XD :D

It lost its identity a long time ago.

"Risks" assumes it hasn't happened yet, the truth is this happened many years ago.

With a wopping 0 apps paying those API prices their profit remains less than 0

fuck u spez !

Humanity risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits.

Sooner the better, it might become usable.

Also: Nobody is paying the price and they are losing users(this is also the reason why I came here).

"Risks losing" means the loss has not happened yet. This is inaccurate.

It already did.

Any app that doesn’t have ads is a better product to me

So...every business ever?