Interested in getting a feel for what people may be likely to do IF reddit reverses their decision regarding API access, or reduces access fees to a reasonable level and 3rd party apps remain sustainable.

While I know the chances of this are extreeeemely slim, until 1st July there is an ever so slight chance this could still happen.

From my perspective, the community harm is done, and those who have left prior to July 1 have left due to principles, not because their app stopped working. As such, I’d be inclined to think most of those migrators would stay here in the fediverse.

But would we see a mass exodus back to reddit if the changes were undone? It’s easy to say no, but if it went back to operations as relatively normal, it may be easy to justify going back for some users.

I’d like to think I wouldn’t go back. I’ve deleted content and account from reddit. I’ll be happy here so long as there is enough userbase for some discussion.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
    89•1 year ago

    I’ll stay here, I don’t tolerate being treated like sh*it as they did, it’s totally unacceptable. Even if they apologized, they shown their true colors, we know they would be lying.

    I came here a couple of weeks ago and since then I did my best to be involved in lemmy communities so as to not miss reddit, and you know what? It worked :)

    I’m not deleting my account because I want my data first (sent a GDPR request), but I don’t really care anymore about what they do, nor I care about reddit as a platform, engagement here is much higher quality.

    Still following news because it’s entertaining, I love how the community got creative with the protest.

    • Beardedsausag3
      25•1 year ago

      With my extremely limited, northern England born n bred vocabulary - fucken could not have said it any better. +1

    • polygon
      3•1 year ago

      At this point it’s not even about the API changes anymore. Spez would need to be replaced to even consider it. He’s shown what he thinks of the community, he’s made a tour of all the tech news sites outright lying and misrepresenting how users feel, he’s killed several small businesses for app developers, and is currently authorizing the removal of entire teams of mods (and locking their accounts).

      All of the problems with Reddit start at the top. No band-aids are going to fix that problem. Spez is the disease, and Reddit is the rot that follows. Twitter can never recover under Elon, and Reddit will continue to decline under Spez.

      I’m out. If any Lemmy/kbin admin pulls some shit like Elon or Spez, you just move to another instance. I’m done with the Silicon Valley style “burn it down for the payday” mind set because VC firms have the CEO by the balls.