‘Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,’ Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.
It’s why I’m here, and I’m liking it so far
Same. Honestly I don’t even miss Reddit. Fuck that place
Yeah, only thing missing are the amount of people but that’s a problem that’s being fixed every passing day.
This was the final straw for me at Reddit as well. Happy to be here now! Still trying to learn the ropes.
Can someone explain why going dark for 48 hours would make Reddit’s response unexpected? Basically they just need to bear 48 hours and then no consequences? What’s the motivation to overturn the API decision?
11 years on reddit and seeing its long slow decline its just sad. A return to the basics was very necessary. Removing subs from r/all, messing with the voting, “new” reddit, a clamp down on content…it just kept getting worse and worse. As long as I could use RIF and old.reddit it was fine, but the writing is on the wall at this point.
While most of their users are used to the newer layout from other social media, my goal was always to see the most number of posts I could on a single page and have a clean ad-free experience. Lemmy seems to get this
The statement from r/watchredditdie when they closed the sub really put things in perspective for me.
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have gone so far as to renege on their promise of listing Aaron Swartz among Reddit, Inc’s founders. Such an egregious breach of contract - only performed once their agreed-upon co-founder no longer walked the earth - could only be carried out by immoral individuals acting in fundamental bad faith. In this way and so many others, Reddit is dead.
It’s like Reddit forgot the Digg flood back in the day and is making the same poor choices Digg made that drew so many people to reddit a decade ago.
Joke’s on you u/Spez: we’ve got a new Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!
It’s going to take a bit to get used to, but I’m like Lemmy for the most part.
Haven’t removed my reddit account, but I only have one sub that is still online at this point.
Really does feel like they killed a giant.
I am so hesitant to delete my Reddit account. I’ve had it for 12 years and there is a small bit of me that hopes they will fire u/spez and go back to the Reddit I have loved for so long. As long as he is around though I won’t be going back and it really does feel as though they have killed a giant.
Yeh well. Maybe one day reddit simply becomes one of the larger lemmy instance.
