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It's way past this point now. Had reddit done this back when the shutdowns were first planned that would be one thing, but at this point they've demonstrated they can't be trusted, they don't care about their users or mods, and they're only interested in anything they think will increase the their profit margins for the IPO. If you aren't an investment firm they don't give a single shit about you past whatever damage you might do to their IPO plans.
Yep, that ship has sailed. Time for the mods to go make their own reddit, (with blackjack and affordable api) and leave that one to burn itself down.
It's nice that they still have hope and still love their community enough to want to attempt to seek some sort of resolution, but imo reddit the company is never going to budge now. It's personal for spez now, and the company is simply going to barrel on and ignore all these letters and everything. They're committed to their stance now, and they're going to simply wait it out, until all the opposing people have left/been kicked out and all that is left of reddit the community are those who either still support them or who don't care. It's sad, but imo the reddit as we knew it is dead, and it's time to accept that and move on.
It’s nice that they still have hope and still love their community enough to want to attempt to seek some sort of resolution, but imo reddit the company is never going to budge now.
They never were. They have the numbers. They knew there was money to be made by killing off 3rd party apps. They knew they would piss people off. Really all they care about are the folks that subscribe to Reddit and/or use the native app. They view everyone else as a parasite. They made the calculation that killing 3rd party apps would have a small enough impact that it was worth it in the long run. That is all they wanted. They probably didn't count on the level of outrage they would create. They surely expected some, but definitely not this. They are in it for the long haul though. They will just wait people out to see what the damage actually is and then one day in a month or two they will talk about how minimal the impact was and how they saw very little loss of readership.
It’s sad, but imo the reddit as we knew it is dead, and it’s time to accept that and move on.
I'd pour one out for dear old reddit, but I'm already moved on.
This feels very much like a “when someone shows you who they are, believe them” type scenario. Even if Reddit backtracks and courts 3rd party apps in their eco-system, they’ve shown themselves. They don’t care about communities, users, or mods.
When your abusive partner promises to stop beating you, you should not go back to the relationship. They will beat you again.
It's time to stop begging and start leaving.
Agreed. I think we need to establish a better migration system for users. It's honestly extremely easy to get set up on, say, lemmy.world. it took me a couple minutes to make an account, download apps, and log in on my computer and my phone.
I think a lot of redditors are afraid of having to learn a new thing and word on the street over there is that the federated communities are hard to understand. We need to let them know it's not that bad and provide easy steps to migrate. I think if they actually know how painless it can be, more would migrate.
Not to mention, many users just look at /r/all anyway, so they won't even need to worry about subscribing or navigating away from their local instance. I've been trying to include some very basic steps to get started and then, if they are so inclined, they can learn more about how the federation works as they go.
Even if reddit backpedals, many of these communities are now irreversibly fractured. From the ones that went dark and had moderation replaced, or creators left, to outright posting porn or shitposting John Oliver, all of these communities will take time to fix and go back to normal for every reason under the sun. Half of reddit is on fire and just as so, you can heal from a burn but it's never the same.
This abusive relationships has evolved again, and spez is still hitting you now he's burned you. To use Louis Rossmans words "it's not even about the api anymore. Look how the entire company acts when they're told they're wrong. Look how much they will do. How far they will go. Do you really want to invest your time or money as an investor in a company it's own users are actively trying to burn down?"
It’s too late. Hopefully Reddit dies.
I see where you're coming from but I hope Reddit doesn't die. Yes this situation sucks, but there's a lot of valuable information on Reddit after years of indexing everyone and anyone's questions. Killing Reddit is akin to burning down the library of Alexandria (Not nearly as sever, but I'm sure you get the picture.)
At least before Reddit dies, I hope we find a way to archive all of that user data.
Reddit can suck it, I'm not going back.
Yeah, they've already shown us that they don't actually care about the communities, only the ad impressions.
Bad idea, this looks like Stockholm syndrome to me.
Reddit has already shown they will screw everyone over, and no amount of blowback so far has gotten them to change course.
Leave (and optionally try to give Reddit as much hell as possible on the way out). That's the only answer now.
I don't think there is any redemption either, even if u/spez is removed. He's not the first bad head of the company, if anything the company has never had any good heads.
Just stop moderating them already. Don't go dark. Reddit will revert. Don't make it NSFW to stop ad profits. Reddit will revert. Just. Stop. Moderating.
Let it fill up with nudes and hate speech and then sure, let's have Reddit forcibly remove you. They'll pull in a new team of mods but if they're just picked out of the blue, they're unlikely to find the time and energy necessary to do it well because this takes passion and many teams were assembled carefully over time with votes and selection processes for a reason. It's often a team effort of passionate people. Moderating poorly risks putting the subreddit on collision course with the community but hey that is Spez and gang's problem, not yours.
I don't think there is any other language that Reddit understands than this. Mods -- take a breather and see what the world has to offer. It's not just all about Reddit.
From the article
Reddit didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. According to Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, “We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.”
Fucking fuck me sideways
I'm sure reddit will get right on that.
RIF: Reddit Is Finished, move on.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
In the internal letter to their employees, spez said :
We absolutely must ship what we said we would.
The way I see it some promise has been done by spez and they definitely won't change their minds.
Third party apps are just dead that's just how it is.
They're simply not going to be able to get that work done in the timeframe they said it'd be done. They're going to proudly claim that they've shipped it but when they release it it'll have the narrowest possible scope you can imagine - actually, no, it'll be narrower than even that. It's going to be missing major functions because reddit simply has no idea the things they need to put in, much less how to accomplish it.
Plus it's going to be super-bug-filled. But they're going to declare "Mission Accomplished", and say that anyone who doesn't like the new app is just anti-reddit, doesn't know understand what they've released, doesn't understand how to work things, etc, etc.
Fuck spez.
Reddit has given several responses, full of contempt, belittlement, and insults. Oh, and threats. Can’t forget the threats.
Hey reddit mods: reddit doesn’t give a damn about you, your sub, or the community you built. Yes, it sucks. Yes, it hurts. Don’t be a fool and wait around for another response. The sooner you move on from reddit, the better off you’ll be.
Reddit doesn't want third party apps. They will get more money with their official app, simple as that.
For reddit you are just a wallet full of money. Spez doesn't see you in any other way, just walking money.
My answer was stopping modding, stopping posting and now a data takeout and GDPR deletion request (and a complaint because they will fail to honor it) on the way out. I would have done it years ago if there was a place to migrate to.
Dude reddit isn't for you. It is okay. It is a business and they have a right to do whatever they want with their business, but IDK how many more ways they can say "You aren't important to me" before people stop saying "But I should be important to you!"
Couldn’t care less. Lemmy is already so much better than that cesspool. Reddit has been circling the drain for years.
I don't see the point. If we've learned one thing already, it's that the users must control the platform. And that can never happen with Reddit
It's too late, and the damage has already been done, and not just because of the pricing. Reddit's outright manipulative and malicious treatment of devs has already driven most of them to shut down their work with the company. I certainly wouldn't want to work with a platform that treats me like that, profitable or not.
They should just abandon the site instead and leave Reddit to clean up the mess they've made.
I want to go full lemmy but the interface/appearance is a real turn off with comment threads being visually hard to follow. What we need is RES for lemmy
Interesting how the first thing I felt when I read this was, "I hope Reddit doesn't".
Incredible how fast my fondness of Reddit went away in 1 week.
It's a platform whose time to die has arrived. The corpos are getting their hands on it, and nothing punk can be done with it anymore.
The open letters showed me those people only cared about their position in the first place. Otherwise they wouldn't be bargaining, knowing it's useless, they'd leave like the rest of us did
According to Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, “We’ll no longer comment on hearsay, unsubstantiated claims, or baseless accusations from The Verge. We’ll be in touch as corrections are needed.”
So, this part, at the bottom of the article, tells me everything I need to know. Reddit is going to keep chugging along with their ridiculous plan.
Let’s see them deliver on those promised moderation tools by end of month. If they can’t or won’t hit that milestone then I have little faith in them doing anything else. (Not that I have any faith in them any more, just, you know.)
Just walk away, let them have their pile of turd and eat it too.
Yeah I don't think anything's gonna change at this point.
Offer me money.
Spez: Yes!
Power, too, promise me that.
Spez: All that I have and more. Please...
Offer me everything I ask for.
Spez: Anything you want...
I want Apollo back, you son of a bitch.
I didn't read anything in this thread, but I'd just like to give my opinion. I honestly don't care. Make it affordable if you wish, but if Lemmy keeps alive and well, I'm good at where I am.
Lol my guess is 0 response from spez until the normies start screaming about their apps not working.