At this point I’m wondering whether people will stick to reddit even if they pull a 180 on api pricing and all. The whole smear campaign against Apollo and others just underlines they can’t be trusted.
Even if they reneged on everything, I still wouldn’t go back.
The problem with Reddit at this point is the quality of its users. It’s next to impossible to find any kind of legitimate discussion because everything is buried under reddit-comedy and virtue signaling.
Most of the major subreddits have just become political tools for their mods. It scares me thinking how curated the posts are there.
I’m pretty sure most redditors won’t care enough to leave. I predict the only people actually leaving will be old guard (like 35+) and FOSS nerds who pine for the good old days of the internet and/or otherwise have ideological qualms with the changes. Everyone else will just grumble and get the ad infested, inferior official app.
I want the more the merrier as long as we can moderate the more toxic tendencies, but at this moment I’m also pleased that much of the folks and vibes are much like reddit when i first joined
I’m definitely in the right age bracket… Let’s see how this goes. The good thing is that quite a few moderators are on board, so if we shut the large communities down long enough, that might flip a bunch of people over.
I’d love more time to ease into the transition and let Lemmy grow more naturally. So if they did that 180 I’d probably still visit Lemmy first each day, then switch to Reddit once I ran out of new posts.
Hopefully after a few months all my favorite things from reddit would get ported over
It’s an interesting thought experiment, I even wonder that about myself. I started using reddit in 2007 and I don’t like how attached to it I am, but I also can’t deny it.
I don’t think they’ll 180 in any event unless there’s a full management change (which has still failed in the past). Their hands are being forced by angry investor money, one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and they obviously have no clue what they’re doing or how to respond… what competent business would pour gasoline on a roaring PR fire by repeatedly shoveling dishonesty and disrespect in everyone’s faces?
There’s an old saying, “don’t shit where you eat”.
Really hope people leave it to a great extent. Reddit doesn’t deserve the users if they lie like they do, and while reddit was easy and fun, a federated way of communicating seems more robust
At this point I’m wondering whether people will stick to reddit even if they pull a 180 on api pricing and all. The whole smear campaign against Apollo and others just underlines they can’t be trusted.
Even if they reneged on everything, I still wouldn’t go back. The problem with Reddit at this point is the quality of its users. It’s next to impossible to find any kind of legitimate discussion because everything is buried under reddit-comedy and virtue signaling. Most of the major subreddits have just become political tools for their mods. It scares me thinking how curated the posts are there.
That is also a criticism of Lemmy already
I’m pretty sure most redditors won’t care enough to leave. I predict the only people actually leaving will be old guard (like 35+) and FOSS nerds who pine for the good old days of the internet and/or otherwise have ideological qualms with the changes. Everyone else will just grumble and get the ad infested, inferior official app.
I want the more the merrier as long as we can moderate the more toxic tendencies, but at this moment I’m also pleased that much of the folks and vibes are much like reddit when i first joined
I’m definitely in the right age bracket… Let’s see how this goes. The good thing is that quite a few moderators are on board, so if we shut the large communities down long enough, that might flip a bunch of people over.
Not sure about that. If content and infrastructure (aka mods) leave, there is enough incentive to move away if you are a lurker.
I’d love more time to ease into the transition and let Lemmy grow more naturally. So if they did that 180 I’d probably still visit Lemmy first each day, then switch to Reddit once I ran out of new posts.
Hopefully after a few months all my favorite things from reddit would get ported over
It’s an interesting thought experiment, I even wonder that about myself. I started using reddit in 2007 and I don’t like how attached to it I am, but I also can’t deny it.
I don’t think they’ll 180 in any event unless there’s a full management change (which has still failed in the past). Their hands are being forced by angry investor money, one of the most powerful forces in the universe, and they obviously have no clue what they’re doing or how to respond… what competent business would pour gasoline on a roaring PR fire by repeatedly shoveling dishonesty and disrespect in everyone’s faces?
There’s an old saying, “don’t shit where you eat”.
Really hope people leave it to a great extent. Reddit doesn’t deserve the users if they lie like they do, and while reddit was easy and fun, a federated way of communicating seems more robust
Yep, agree. Hope the shutdown will send quite a free over…