The reason for the Reddit protests could have been justified, but the CEO’s response couldn’t.
He messed up, doubled down, and then continued to mess up. I don’t know why the rest of the team let him keep talking
That’s what sold it for me.
I don’t mind if reddit wants to make some money on their API, but giving app developers barely a month to respond, having insanely high prices, throwing away the relationships they built with app devs, and not responding to community feedback around the issue at all was all too much.
It was the AMA that was the last straw for me, on top of everything before. It had been going downhill, but that was where I lost all hope it would improve.
That is capitalism man 🤷🏽♂️. The CEO is emperor.
Truth. Lemmy by design resists the influence of capital by being federated.
What if Reddit and the government paid billions to the creators to fork over the servers and to make the source code and apps proprietary?
Unlikely considering their source of funding comes from various European governments.
Also, it’s not very easy to make open source closed source. The original Lemmy code and documentation is already out there. The only thing they could do would be to add new features that are all closed source. (This is what reddit does, as their old code is open source.) At best, it would be a fork of Lemmy with closed source elements.
Reddit was killed, no, murdered.
What do you mean? 😂
Probably that all the things that made reddit “good” were killed for the sake of profit.
That, and fir me at least the places I used to read on reddit are gone. They might have been opened up, but they no longer contain content, or contain little interesting content.
Reddit killing 3rd party apps
A link on Reddit.
It was immediately after spez’s fatuous AMA. I wasn’t specifically planning to leave Reddit, but I had never really been satisfied there, so I was open to the idea. And I ran across a link to join-lemmy.org, so I followed it, just to see what it was about. I had no idea then that following that link would end up being the last thing I did on Reddit, but that’s the way it worked out.
+1 for the third party Reddit app ban.
Reddit threatening to ban /r/piracy made me setup a failover in raddle. Raddle restricting sign-ups for months made me switch the failover to lemmy.ml. Reddit protests made me setup lemmy.dbzer0.com and make it the primary location for /c/piracy
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Reddit forcing me to use their shitty app
Which app do you use for Lemmy?
I’m personally using Voyager and so happy with it so far
I like voyager a lot, too. Definitely bridges the gap for me from RIF
I like Voyager, I just wished that I could see my avatar or other people’s avatar
I completely forgot about avatars lol
I like Voyager, I just wished that I could see my avatar or other people’s avatar
Mostly Jerboa nowadays and Sync nowadays. I used to use Voyager and Connect and Liftoff, which are all good also in their own ways, but Jerboa and Sync seemed to have the best functionality for me in terms of interacting with different communities and instances across the fediverse. I also need to look into Thunder one of these days.
memmy, voyager didnt stick with me that much
omg I am the exact inverse! Voyager, because Memmy kept failing me.
Right now I’m on Jerboa. I tried Liftoff for a while but it had some weird bugs, and development on it seems to have slowed down a bit in the last few months. Thought it was very promising however, might try it again in the future.
Many things, but ultimately Spez
Came from reddit like many others. I had been unhappy with the artificial and corporate-sterile feel of reddit for a while. And second to that, the way subreddits were set up made it rife with powermod agendas and no good alternatives to escape them.
I much prefer the “interconnected islands” of lemmy that reduces the ability of anyone to advertise, astroturf, or have ownership of the whole system. It feels looser and puts more control back in the hands of users, which is refreshing.
Same here. A lot of people (including myself until a week ago) are either oblivious or fooling themselves about what is happening to Reddit. Changes are being made with the sole purpose of boosting revenue ahead of their IPO. Reddit is no longer focused on improving the user experience, but has switched to full monetization mode. That will only get worse now. It is a slow-moving train wreck.
And, yeah, some Reddit subs are over-moderated and arbitrary. Looking at you /r/boardgames.
It was not easy to figure out Lemmy at first, and the sign up process a few months ago was difficult (for me). But now that I’m on board with a good app, Lemmy is just great. It feels like early-days Reddit before enshittification set in.
They killed BaconReader
Same, but Apollo. I’m still grumpy about it.
I came from relay, which is one of the few apps that still work. But it had to become reddits bitch to do so.
No nsfw subs, and soon there will be a monthly subscription fee, with multiple tiers depending on what API call limit you need.
And reddit still doesn’t provide an API for new features like reddit chat, nor the rest, but those I never cared about.
Relay is on life support, I hope the dev realises that this is a stopgap. Reddit hasn’t maintained feature parity between the 3rd party API and their internal one for years, which was fine when it was free, but paid services usually come with support. The reddit API isn’t going to have that. This is just a way for reddit to seem like they want 3rd party apps to still be a thing, while still in reality killing them.
i used tje official Reddit app then switched to fatbird (fatbird still works) also i tried using spyke because the name was similar to Skype but i could sign up
I prefer FOSS stuff.
I mean, technically, the code to reddit is open source.
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I had been flip-flopping for a while, but I figured that it was finally time to get off of Digg.
When Reddit killed Apollo I deleted my ten year old account and never went back.
Deleting mine now…
Edit: done
Reddit killing off 3rd party apps. Also Lemmy feels more free as I don’t need a set amount of karma to be able to submit a post or comment. I had a lurker account on Reddit that was verified and everything, but there were times when I wanted to post and when I did only I could see my comment.
