Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?
Hypothetically speaking, if Reddit back tracks on their API plan and meets all of the communities expeditions- would you go back to Reddit?
I myself am really on the fence about this.
I hate what Reddit has done, as I was removed as a moderator on my sub. But I much prefer the UI to Lemmy so far. I’m also having a hard time understanding how this all works. I was familiar with Reddit, and it is obviously a way more active community.
But I also used Apollo and hate how they’ve done him so dirty.
Will you guys return if Reddit rights it’s wrongs?
Spez is doubling down. He's shown his hand. He's lied. It's like watching Anakin's descent to the dark side. He's too far gone.
I don't really think there is a going back. The watering hole is poisoned. There's no more good faith. And, I think for a lot people, especially people here, it's a matter of principle at this point.
I might check in on certain niche subs that don't move on to other platforms, but the days of gleefully doomsctolling are over.
Fuck spez. Even if they reversed their decision, they have made it very clear how much they will take control if they don't get their way. They have repeatedly mistreated the mods, devs, and community. They slandered a man with lies that could end his career because of why? To gain social points?
Spez has shown what reddit really is and I am done
Definitely not. Even if I get luke-warm on lemmy, Huffman has shown a complete disregard to the community and has completely pivoted to building the business. As soon as they introduced New reddit and bought AlienBlue, the writing was already on the wall.
I'm not sure if lemmy/the fediverse has the legs to keep the community going indefinitely (i was around when Voat was absorbing the last reddit exodus, i'm hoping lemmy has more legs than that), but I think i'm done with these for-profit social media sites. Youtube is the last one (for me) that hasn't burned that bridge, but I'm not a contributor there anyway. For being a link-aggregation website though, I feel like federations are a perfect fit.
I'm old enough now that I can see myself not using social media at all.... Jesus how did I get so old. Time to go buy a Miata and some aviators.
No
There's more to this than the direct changes to their platform:
- not communicating with mods and users
- being deadset about a really bad feature
- doubling down on killing third party development
- being a real dick about controversies
- not valuing users for their content
- not valuing volunteer moderators
- going after a beloved developer specifically for no other reason than him going public with the situation
There's some things you can't rebuild, and a lot of redditors accept that Reddit is like an abusive spouse and it's time to see other people.
I don’t think I will. I’m not fully moved over - I’ll use Apollo and if/whenthat goes away, then I’m done with Reddit. I’m having a harder time navigating lemmy and getting used to the concept, but it’s also kinda exciting. I remember joining Reddit in ‘09 and it was a similar feel, but this is better. So I think under most circumstances, unless they like get rid of apex and make some serious amends to some others, I won’t go back.
Nope! I've now realised all centralised platforms are doomed to enshittification. I'm here for the long haul.
I'm done. I moderated a very small, niche hobby sub for a bit over three years. The size and niche-ness kept it fairly well insulated from the worst online behaviors, but it's been shifting this year. I have been seeing more and more users posting to the sub for the first time, simply pushing their content creator/influencer material on Insta and Youtube. Their posts are only vaguely related to the sub topic, and they never stick around to have meaningful conversations in the comments of their posts. When they violate the sub rules, I have a policy of warning once and removing only if they don't respond within 24 hours. But even with a 24 hour warning, people get NASTY.
I modded the community for the benefit of others. With the shift in sub demographics and reddit sweeping my legs out from under me in terms of mod tools that allow me to keep control of the sub, I'm done. I can't keep it shaped into the community the original members want. They're frustrated. I'm frustrated. It's no longer fun or fulfilling. Someone who wants to keep the sub aligned with the wants of the new content creator/influencer demographics are welcome to it. Personally, I think a sub of people advertising their channels elsewhere is worthless.
Most responses I've seen have centered on spez's actions, but I have a bigger reason for saying no.
Ever since the Conde Nasty days Reddit has gone in a direction that would be abhorrent to Aaron Schwarz. For this who aren't aware, Aaron was one of the original designers and developers of Reddit.
Anyway, I feel that reddit is now something of an insult to Aaron's legacy. Spez has made it worse by pissing on his grave.
Reddit will get increasingly worse the moment they go public, even if they backpeddal on all of the BS (and they did to some extent), I'm already envisioning several Twitter/Twitch/YouTube-like anti-user monetization features that will trickle down one by one over the years. The owners and admins have shown their true colors, there is no undoing that.
If it weren't for how rough (and personally, confusing) Lemmy is right now, I wouldn't even consider going back. But if the growth stalls, and communities remain super small, I might hop back, which is why I haven't deleted my content and account over there yet.
No.
Way too much trust has been lost for me to even consider going back to that place.
Even if they completely remove and ban Steve Huffman and his family, fiends or even acquaintances from any and all company and/or subcontracted positions, completely overhaul all their positions and replace them with trustworthy people (sucks to be them, but they know what they're getting into), add all the requested features overnight including and especially the accessibility features... I still won't consider going back to them.
They will need to exert a huge amount good faith effort over a span of a decade to earn back my trust, if they're at all capable of doing things in good faith.
I'm keeping my account live so that I can still interact and ask questions in threads when I get taken there by search results. Reddit ultimately shows up a lot when looking for solutions to technical problems.
As far as browsing and contributing, I think I'm sticking with Lemmy. Things are just starting to get good.
Short: No
Long: Theoretically yes, but they'd need to completely change leadership and also give up any notion of going public and instead transition to a non-profit. I dont think they can be working for the community while chasing profits. They have been trying to exploit users for profit rather than work with them.
That reddit could see me return, but at that point it'd be a very different situation and a very different reddit. I don't think we'll ever see it happen.
I don't plan on going back to Reddit in a major way. After giving Reddit up, I find myself thinking over my experience on that site for the last few years. Engaging commentary was harder and harder to find, particularly in any sub of sufficient size, and I spent a lot of my scrolling through Reddit angry. Leaving Reddit has been a wake up call for me. It's a rat race on Reddit, and I don't need that in my life anymore.
No. It would be different if they just killed third party apps (with appropriate notice) and like, I would be upset, since Apollo is genuinely one of the best pieces of software I've ever used, but I would just use old Reddit on my phone like I do with my computer, and it would be fine. But the outright hostility spez has shown for users means I will never post there again, and I'm signed out unless I need to find something on my account. The final straw was spez's response to the blackouts, which I would summarize as "Once they get over their little temper tantrum, they'll come crawling back to us." It was condescending, insulting, and frankly infuriating. He can't even pay lip service to the most dedicated members of the site, so god knows what he's saying in private. Why on earth should we spend any time on a site who's leadership so clearly despises us?
Not planning to return. Lemmy feels good to me. Happy to be here.
I think reddit model should be as a non profit org., something like wikipedia. No ads, no selling or trying to monetize user data, or being hostage to its investors whims. That would require a complete change of management. Only then I would think about going back.
If I can’t use Apollo I’m done for anything other than when a Reddit post is a web-search result.
sadly... yes. I'm just not finding the community here that I built up there over 11 years. I know, I know, give this 11 years and we'll get there, too... but it's still over there.
I did the whole "delete all comments and posts and replace with the API reasoning text" thing, for my main and my few alts. BUt I find I still am heading over there on browser through old.reddit and lurking.
No, I won't return.
This whole episode taught me the importance of diversifying the online communities/platforms that I use, and how NOT to rely on a single platform controlled by a for-profit entity.
From now on, it's communities based on open platforms first for me, and proprietary ones the distance second and only if I really can't avoid it.
Nope. Not a chance. I have no love for giant corporations, and Reddit has always been particularly shit even by that standard. Say what you want about the evils of Meta / Google / Apple, ETC ETC ETC, but at least they generally try to keep their users happy, or at least using their platforms. Reddit just seem to have absolutely no idea what their users want half the time, Reddit premium anyone? The way they handled, or rather failed to handle, the accessibility issue also leaves a rather bitter taste in my mouth.
I hate to be the one to go against the grain here, but yeah I would. I mean, I'd try to continue posting here as much as possible, but there are at least a few communities that I'd probably fall back to Reddit for. Reddit's popularity means there's active discussion on some surprisingly niche topics. Like, there's an active Sumo wrestling sub. There isn't a community here for that, and even if I made one (which I don't want to do because I don't want to moderate) it would just be me screaming into the void.
And I don't think that's going to be a concern anyway. There's no sign they're going to backtrack on anything, in fact they just keep doubling down.
Nope.
Up until 3rd party app devs announced they're converting their apps to Lemmy? Yes.
Now, absolutely the fuck not. Reddit is a cesspool compared to when I first joined in 2013. Lemmy feels a lot more like reddit did then. It's quaint and cozy here. Yes I'd like to see this place grow some more. But 1/10th the size of reddit would be plenty. Most reddit users don't contribute anything useful anyways so no loss there.
No. I like it much better here
Short answer: No
Long answer: Nooooooooooo
No. The enshittification will progress regardless. I‘ve seen this often enough.
Nope. They're garbage.
Nope, I've already deleted all of my comments and posts on a 10+ year old account. They can go straight to hell. Fuck them.
https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/what-happened-to-reddit/
100% fuck u/spez.
They have messed up pretty badly, and anyone who still trusts them, is wearing a blindfold.
Friendship ended with Reddit users, now fedverse users are my new best friend(s).
I wouldn't. I was already getting sick of Reddit in the last year, so this has been a welcome change.
There are still some communities I miss, but hopefully they make their way over here in time.
Nope, being an open source and privacy zealot I wanted to switch to Lemmy well before anyone cared about it. But I deleted my account because it had like twenty active people on it at most. Now that it's gaining users I'm definitely staying. I wasn't very active on Reddit for quite a while anyway, discussion grew repetitive.
Nah, fuck reddit. "If people tell you who they are you better believe them."
That bridge has been burned to the ground.
Nope, the wells been poisoned. Even if they did a full 180 and Fired Spez for good measure, they've shown their hand. How long before they do it again? Even if all of this was %100 Spezs idea and everyone else in the company opposed it, could we really trust the replacement to never try this or anything similar again? How long before the next CEO decides to try again? What Reddit as a company has proven is that they can't be trusted, and what we as a community have proved with switching over to Kbin and Lemmy is that we don't need Reddit. We can make the same content and have the same or in some cases better communities and the beauty of doing it on a platform like this? A greedy corporation can't destroy it again. Even if a major instance owner goes rogue, we pick up move to another instance and keep going no need to learn a new site no need to rebuild communities. A simple "I'm moving over to this instance!" And that's it
not at this point. spaz has been very stupid in how hes handled this. im not saying i wont go back but itll be a while and take a serious mea culpa.
Damn redditors... They ruined reddit!
I wasn't on Reddit in the first place, so my opinion's not really relevant here, but I really enjoy the communities that have formed on Lemmy, so I do hope people stay around. I really strongly believe in the federation of networks over the centralization around capital.
No. Reddit has shown it's not what I signed up for. I learn my lession, goodbye reddit
maybe if spez is also removed, and the board reselected
No. This whole Fediverse feels like Reddit did in the beginning. Real conversations. Real sense of community. No pointless bloat or mindless repetition. I started actually participating because I'm not drowned out with a million ridiculous generic comments minutes after a post. Reddit will undoubtedly continue, but not with me as a part of it.
This is the most degen reason to give, but the likelihood is I would go back. Lemmy is solid though there's a couple of things that make me wonder if it's worth fully commiting.
a) Userbase. If reddit went back, subreddits would likely reopen, change their rules back to how they were before, and therefore the numbers would follow.
b) Centralised. I know this one will piss people off, but the fragmentation of lemmy is a bit too much. I have the option to put all my trust into a single account on one instance and subscribe fedarated if instances support it, or I can create 20 different accounts across different instances.
c) Retention of userstats. While I've not got rediculous amounts of karma like some people do, I have a a little bit, and rebuilding that is a bit ass.
Not fully - those days are over, even if he gets fired (which sets me to wondering if he has some protection from that in his contract? but likely they could find a way regardless, like install a new position of "CEO overseer" that is above him, depending on the language).
And in its place seems to be a new era of freedom, where the content is divorced somewhat from the interface via federation, or at least Reddit is no longer the singular source of where all the good stuff is (I don't like watching videos - e.g. you can't "search" for stuff like you can text).
I help mod a tiny enthusiast sub over there so as people in it struggle to come to terms with what's going on, I haven't fully left there even now (yet...). Even so, even if Reddit backtracks, I like the idea of not putting everything into the one place anymore, b/c it makes the conditions for what happened too easily repeatable. If he felt that he had even the slightest competition, he would not have felt nearly so free to do what he did - so it falls to us (ALL of us) to not allow that to occur again.
Inside the walled gardens they take "good" care of you... but never forget that then you belong to them.
If that happens and spez steps down, yes. But I still wouldn't leave Lemmy.
If Lemmy stays active I will stay on Lemmy, I like it here. There’s no way I will ever use Reddit without Apollo. If Christian decides to make a Lemmy app then it’s really game over for them.
Not me. For me it's half a matter of principle, but I'm also liking the fact that I don't waste as much time doomscrolling
Not planning on returning. Reddit was getting crappy for a long time, particularly with how it responded to advertiser-unfriendly content. Federated social media is a better system, and by a metric of centralization, Reddit always sucked. It is a sad example of how corporations are successfully commercializating every aspect of human existence. I dropped in a couple times after June 11th in RiF, but at this point I feel no desire to open up the app.
Additionally, I've been posting a whole hell of a lot more here than I was on Reddit just a couple weeks prior. It's nice to feel wanted for once.
Lemmy and Kbin are early in their life cycles. I can put up with bugs and growing pains. Because the Fediverse is organized as a decentralized community, if one large group decides to enshittify their instance, we can just move to another instance or defederate from them if they pose a threat to the community. It's going to be very hard to unilaterally kill the whole community like what happened on Reddit and Digg. If it becomes possible in one of the Fediverse applications, we can read the source code, sound the alarm, and fork it or patch it out.
I had to learn how to use Reddit; I will learn how to use the Fediverse too. We'll get through this.
Only if Spez leaves and is replaced by a decent CEO who reverses EVERYTHING that Spez has effed up in the past few years. I'd return for some small niche communities I participate on that aren't present in the lemmy-verse (yet). But I'd stay here too. I am committed to Federated services now.
I’ve already deleted my 12 year old account, so doubt it
Lemmy, and kbin are both still rough around the edges and needs improvement, but I'm really interested in where they go from here. I really like the idea of the fediverse, and its open nature, and ability for anyone to host an instance. I really hope it's popularity continues to grow, and I definitely plan to stick around here whether or not Reddit rights it's wrongs this time around.
Reddit's CEO has shown his true colors, and it's yet another example of why we can never really rely on centralized, proprietary, and corporate owned services in the long term.
I have yet to decide whether or not I will completely abandon Reddit. I'm waiting to see if Reddit will change its stance about the API, and also if Lemmy and/or kbin remain active enough long term.
Not me. reddit has been getting shittier and shittier for years, now I'm finally rid of it. It's like getting out of an abusive relationship lol.
Not in the same way as before, that's for sure. It would mean that they only did it after people protested and disrupted the site for an extended period of time. They obviously don't want Reddit to be what we want it to be anymore. I'm sure they would still try to subvert the users' will and impose theirs in different ways. Plus, this has made me expand and actually seek out exciting new communities and platforms for the first time in a long time. These communities are filled with people who have similar opinions on what happened and how to move forward and create spaces we want to participate in. Whatever happens with Reddit can't undo that.
Fuck reddit
No way, federated universe has opened my eyes. Rather stay here and help grow the community instead
I would probably use reddit again as it is a useful resource, but not post/vote or anything
It’s hard to imagine a scenario where I go back to Reddit.
I really like FOSS but I’m not a true believer type, and this whole situation just really icked me out on Reddit. I wasn’t even a third-party app person, I mostly used the official app on my iPhone. But before June 12 I deleted it and downloaded Apollo instead. Since June 12 I have barely interacted with it.
I’ve been trying out every alternative since. Kbin, Mastodon, RSS feeds, Tumblr, hell I’ve even been trying out Instagram although I know Meta is arguably worse. Kbin + RSS feeds + Tumblr is almost there, just need a lot more discussion on Kbin.
Tl;dr: really, probably, no.Reddit has been going downhill for a while. I stopped using it actively years ago because it was useless to have any sort of conversation or discussion. I only used it passively as a content delivery platform.
If reddit can deliver enjoyable content to a third party ad-free app on my phone, I'll probably keep using it that way.
So far lemmy has been a good place for discussion so I'll be here nonetheless.
Sure. In the same vein, I'll go back to twitter if elon musk somehow restored it to the way it was before before his purchase.
Neither scenario will happen, of course. But if we're talking about hypotheticals, I wouldn't have an issue returning.
No. Reddit's enshitification started a long time ago. This is just the catalyst. Corpo-stooges can get bent
I'd probably go to my hobby subreddits and ignore /all
And then i'd also check the fediverse's site to see if they have anything different.
I'd imagine the content would grow more and more over time until either things went back to the way they were or reddit no longer had anything worth visiting for.
It'll be a cold day in hell that I go back there. If you look in a dictionary under the word 'Evil', there is a picture of spez.
I will probably still use it occasionally, but honestly I'm super excited about federation. I have been interested in it for a while, and have casually switched to mastodon, but I didn't think it was ready yet and that enough people were adopting it to completely replace my reliance on other social media. But now that people are essentially forced to take it seriously, I think it is finally starting to feel populated enough to have a good time.
Mastodon kind of already started to feel great like that, but honestly I never really used twitter that much.
i'm interested in a easy to use forum-styled social media, not a site named reddit. Or lemmy for that matters.
Unless reddit changes how they manage the site I see no point going back
If Apollo came back and Christian was happy, yes I think so. I gave up a lot by not using Reddit since 6/12 but my boycott will continue indefinitely if I can’t use Apollo anymore.
No.
There are two medical subs I care about and that have been reluctant to keep protesting or moving people over to Lemmy. For those I will probably compile Infinity with my own API key. But I will unsub from everything else.
Day to day, definitely not, as I’m very happy here. Even if Lemmy doesn’t end up working out, I will look for something else that is open source…. Will I ever look at Reddit again, yes. Same way I will once or twice a year look at FB.
Well, I already didn't like Reddit. Or really use it much. But I will likely use it the same way as now, which is check Genshin Impact subs for new leaks and such. Genshin community hasn't really jumped to here.
Yes, but only to the more niche subs. I've really missed some of them, lime r/stunfisk or r/mapporncirclejerk. I'll stay away from the mainstream subs; I've had enough of the toxicity.
RIP, my autocorrect changes “expectations” to “expeditions”.
How will I ever live this down in this community? This will be the canon event that sends me back to Reddit.
I think i would just use both. There are some niche communities on Reddit that probably won't be on lemmy for a while, and i will miss them if spez follows through..
I am very hopeful for the future of lemmy, and i think the fediverse is a great solution to the problem of corporate greed infecting social media. But I'm concerned that if spez backs down, then people will conclude that we won and it's safe to go back to Reddit.
Honestly no, I didn't realise until getting out how bad Reddit has become over the last few years, and this place really has me enjoying my time again, vs doom scrolling and getting slightly cranky at toxic people on Reddit.
If RIF survives or returns, then I will probably go back to reddit occasionally. But I haven't missed it since the blackout, so I will probably only use it for a reference and not a community to comment in.
I'm not sure. I think I want to stay here.
Lemmy is still new and I think its UI will catch up with Reddit's. Reddit's UI frankly suciks and will get worse rather than better, though Reddit's might still have some advantages here and there.
Reddit will likely keep having some communities etc. that Lemmy doesn't, so I might re-engage to some extent, though probably just passively.
Reddit will always be less trustworthy than before, even if they keep the API open. Spez getting fired and replaced by Stallman (lol) or similar, would be about the only thing that could help witht hat.
I'm done with the site, but I will continue looking at and posting on it, and these things aren't really in conflict. It just means that I'm not going to put forward the kind of energy that I do to posting here. The same is basically true of Twitter since Elon: I made a long statement on my largest account there, and never posted again, just occasionally looked in and saw less and less on the feed each time. I still use an account for crypto Twitter, because crypto Twitter doesn't want to leave.
Regardless of what these execs say in public statements, the balloon has sprung a leak, and the open Internet is back.
If Kbin and Lemmy keep being this active I'm sticking around here. I'm really enjoying it at this level. More so than Reddit. But if this place dies AND Reddit is less scummy for a while, I might go back.
UI's can change. CEO appointed companies can not. And communities can grow :)
I think (see: hope) that reddit has shown where its goals are aligned. Any backpedaling they do at this point can only ever look like damage control.
I probably would check it out sometimes cuz the game I pretty much only play (old school runescape) doesn't seem to have a community on here... All just sitting on reddit
No. If they did it once they'll do it again.
No. I was already half-way out.
Lemmy will continue to improve and Reddit will flush itself further down the toilet.
I don't know. I have a hard time replacing it news wise. I've started trying to collect a bunch of news site to replace it but there really is something about getting the hive mind's opinion on what's important.
(Of course it had its own problems and there was a risk of only being exposed to hive mind approved opinions but you know... You had all your news in one place and the upvote functionality did a decent job at presenting you with them news your community was interested in the most).
An active Lemmy would of course fill the same purpose. I'm just afraid we're seeing an initial spike and that people will start moving back when the initial hype is over...
I'll go back to reddit if the content is better.
Occasionally dropping shade and telling people to move to a better platform.
No shame, karma is useless.I would probably try and advertise the fediverse over there.
No, they showed their hand and they will not change their attitude. They got caught in their lies and their malicious intentions. I do not mind them behaving like a business, I mind that they are becoming unethical in the way they are pursuing their goals, because they think we are passive enough that will accept such type of conduct without batting an eyelash.
No ofc not xd
That's a negatory Ghost Rider.
No, Spez showed his true colors, I would never go back to reddit ruled by that elon wannabe, the fediverse seems like a good option, and hopefully will grow more.
Of course not. The people here are nicer.
I'd probably download infinity again for when I inevitably have to visit reddit to follow through on a search query.
As far as actual regular use, I'm on lemmy for the long run.
Nah. That ship has sailed. I enjoy learning new things, and was never a reddit power user, so I'll just get more and more familiar with lemmy and stay here.
Maybe. I'm on the fence too.
The learning curve for Lemmy is a little steep and there are several quirks (or bugs) that need to be addressed sooner than later. But I can't really trust Reddit to do the right thing anymore.
I'm on the fence because, like it or not, reddit is still a useful resource. At least, for now, it is.
I used Apollo. This situation opened my eyes. It's time to find a new place to call home, so to speak.
It will take a minute to learn Lemmy. I'm always into exploring a new site, tho!
If reddit implemented an ActivityPub interface, I would consider commenting there.
No, they’ll just try again later with a different approach.
I may go back for casual browsing of the news and some of the niche communities that don't have a community here. But even though reddit will definitely be around, the damage is already done with people having deleted/edited their posts and comments. I wouldnt trust them to not try this stupid shit again once they get complacent.
Many of the communities deserve to be saved (and I will miss some if they don't end up with a fediverse equivalent), but the platform certainly doesn't. When someone demonstrates who they really are, you should believe them. I hope to watch it burn it to the ground, though doubt that will actually happen.
I don't think so. Reddit was lost years ago, and I'm not willing to create a new account just because they rolled back their API changes. They won't, anyways.
I commented this on a different thread but I can’t with spez at the helm. even if everything was reversed and he apologized to the 3PA devs he’s a slimy little snake that I can’t trust. i’m really hoping that someone makes an Apollo for kbin though! :)
No, this whole thing has made me understand that the incentives of the corporations and the interests of users are fundamentally conflicting. I feel like I knew that subconsciously before, I left facebook years ago but could never quite articulate why I hated them, but now my eyes have been opened and I just can't see going back.
@snipeftw: No, the Rubicon has been crossed here. I've always thought Reddit was a bit shit to begin with and some of the things I've read since getting out of there have reinforced my decision that I got out at a good time.
I think it's time for the next thing (Lemmy, Kbin, anything else) to take the spotlight.That being said, there's a lot of useful information back at Reddit. When RIF shuts down, i'll be using Lemmy via Jerboa as my daily driver until a better third party app with better ui (to my liking) and/or more features appears. Reddit fucked up bad for me, a platform led by a lying misleading and disrespectful jerk as Spez is not for me. I'll use Reddit with full adblock power to find old threads with solutions to specific problems, but i really hope someone creates a browser extension that redirects Reddit traffic to Teddit or something like that. -- edit: found a extension, it's called Privacy Redirect. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb]
Not giving them more traffic, just the baaarest minimum
FUCK YOU U/SPEZ
No.
No. It's a pain in the butt to migrate from Reddit, but it's a blessing in disguise. The decentralized approach is much better and more future proof against bad actors. Having 1 site (or person) holdng all the cards is not something that should appeal to anyone.
I like Kbin, and will certainly remain active.
But if the board were to remove Huffman for his incompetence and put an alternative, non-brain dead plan in place, I would at least stop deliberately shunning Reddit
You sound like a battered wife lol. Have some self respect and ditch them for good.
I don't use Reddit on my computer, only browse it using RIF and my reddit usage will stop when the RIF stops working.
No. I like the Fediverse and feel I am contributing to something new and exciting. Reddit to me feels like old news. It’s saturated with people and with the exception of one community I am trying to bring here, I don’t see myself using it.
No way. Even if they back down this time, they'll just try again later when we get complacent. Being on guard all the time is exhausting and not worth it when we can simply leave Reddit for good.
All depends on what subs I’m missing
Only if /u/spez gets fired without any sort of compensation. As long as he has any sort of power over Reddit he'll just wait and try to pull this again.
Nah, I won't return in a meaningful way. Come June 30, I'm fully deleting my 10+ y.o. account. I may make another burner one to be able to follow a few niche communities (mostly snark subreddits) that I'm certain won't be moving over. But I don't plan to contribute or even lurk in a meaningful way anymore.
I'm excited about the promise the Fediverse holds. It's refreshing to me. I've been longing for a better social web experience, something like I remember having 10-15 years ago, and I'm feeling hopeful that the communities developing here can give me some of that magical feeling back.
I dont think so.
Reddit has become too big for its own good. Admins and mods are on some kind of a power trip (not all), users are questionable at the best. Its no longer a "community".
One thing I would still use reddit for is getting info from some specialized subreddits and troubleshooting my computer as reddit is good for that.
Backtracking on API would only be one part of the puzzle. I won't go back while Huffman is CEO. And if RIF still closes down then I still say fuck 'em.
I'd prefer not to, but in the end it comes down to usability and content.
If there will be an ad free way to browse the contents and still a lot of communities build around that site, then I'll probably end up there more often then I'd like.
However I've already configured my searx instance to filter it out so that my search engine won't suggest me stuff from there. Accounts are gone as well...Nope, Reddit is dead to me no matter what now. I don’t care about API, it’s how they handled it. I’m also quite liking Kbin and most of my hobbies discussions had already moved to Discord anyway
I'm done. Way too many bots/trolls.