The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
Yeah Reddit won but the Reddit users lost. Lost access to awesome apps most of all. I personally think it’s fair for Reddit to charge for API access but it seems hardheaded to charge orders or magnitude more per user than they make on their own platform through advertising. I currently only use Reddit on desktop because I’m not going to use their crappy official app. Indeed I lost out, congrats Spez on your victory. In the meantime I’m on Lemmy more than I used to be and I hardly ever comment on Reddit posts anymore.
We know the corporation thinks it can own a community.
We saw how the corporation treats people who put in immense quantities of work, FOR FREE, making the site worth using.
These dumb motherfuckers made it impossible for me to come back without it feeling like a betrayal. I’m out. Sixteen years last month, and I am just fuckin’ done. Any time I’m there again is either an accident, or an effort to preserve my own goddamn records from the last decade and a half.
Digg losing to reddit didn’t mean Digg went away. The empty box was never the point. It’s the users, stupid. And the people who just want a safe spot to shoot the shit with one another don’t need some fucking asshole deciding they’re doing it wrong. Certainly not if that useless whipped bastard declares that half the goddamn site will be ignored, when they demand the tiniest concession to reality. Do they know what reddit is for?! The whole website is predicated on democratized opinion, gated by moderator approval, and this absolute dolt brushed aside all levels of power, to declare that no action could possibly change one iota of corporate say-so.
K bye, fuckhead. Good luck with your box full of trolls and bots. Hope your IPO goes swimmingly, now that we’ve all seen the revenue-per-user figures putting reddit somewhere below advertising on bus-stop benches, before a critical mass of regulars just fuckin’ bounced.
And then you deleted all the money people gave you directly.
I doubt even barely started. Most people on Reddit right now looking at the numbers and having short sighted opinions like “oh look, nothing has changed. It must have been some vocal minority all along.” Unaware most site utilize bots for that exact reason. Bots or couple of paid people cannot emulate authenticity. People will start seeing these in time.
I will occasionally check Reddit, but I’ve dropped it by about 90%. And I don’t post there anymore, even if someone is asking something I know the answer to. I would rather contribute on Lemmy and bring people into a FOSS, copyleft, non-corporate alternative.
Reddit wasn’t going to die. Wasn’t about winning and losing. It was about making people aware of the bad business practice running in the background and trying to get them to change.
Also, it would have been much better if there was a clear alternative offered. I only found out about Lemmy through a friend. Never saw anything about it throughout the protest.
They mean the last of the big protesting subs finally stopped their protest rules. The places with rules saying you had to post John Oliver, or everything is nsfw, or any of the other stuff that popped up as a protest 2 months ago is now gone. In pet because admins slashed the mod teams and replaced them with cronies
Which is hilarious because the new mods have no clue what the fuck they’re doing, and the content creators have left to places like here. So now it’s like a bunch of 15 year olds posting shit.
I literally don’t care anymore. I should thank these greedy corporations, I’m spending more time in my workshop, making furniture, read more, using all this little off-time over the day much better. As I see it, we won. People. Gotta go now, a kitchen cabinet wants to have it’s final touches.
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Yeah Reddit won but the Reddit users lost. Lost access to awesome apps most of all. I personally think it’s fair for Reddit to charge for API access but it seems hardheaded to charge orders or magnitude more per user than they make on their own platform through advertising. I currently only use Reddit on desktop because I’m not going to use their crappy official app. Indeed I lost out, congrats Spez on your victory. In the meantime I’m on Lemmy more than I used to be and I hardly ever comment on Reddit posts anymore.
Reddit most certainly did not win. Win what, anyway? Many long-time users and moderators left the platform.
There is no “win” here, Tim – only losers.
You can’t unfuck that chicken.
We know the corporation thinks it can own a community.
We saw how the corporation treats people who put in immense quantities of work, FOR FREE, making the site worth using.
These dumb motherfuckers made it impossible for me to come back without it feeling like a betrayal. I’m out. Sixteen years last month, and I am just fuckin’ done. Any time I’m there again is either an accident, or an effort to preserve my own goddamn records from the last decade and a half.
Digg losing to reddit didn’t mean Digg went away. The empty box was never the point. It’s the users, stupid. And the people who just want a safe spot to shoot the shit with one another don’t need some fucking asshole deciding they’re doing it wrong. Certainly not if that useless whipped bastard declares that half the goddamn site will be ignored, when they demand the tiniest concession to reality. Do they know what reddit is for?! The whole website is predicated on democratized opinion, gated by moderator approval, and this absolute dolt brushed aside all levels of power, to declare that no action could possibly change one iota of corporate say-so.
K bye, fuckhead. Good luck with your box full of trolls and bots. Hope your IPO goes swimmingly, now that we’ve all seen the revenue-per-user figures putting reddit somewhere below advertising on bus-stop benches, before a critical mass of regulars just fuckin’ bounced.
And then you deleted all the money people gave you directly.
I doubt even barely started. Most people on Reddit right now looking at the numbers and having short sighted opinions like “oh look, nothing has changed. It must have been some vocal minority all along.” Unaware most site utilize bots for that exact reason. Bots or couple of paid people cannot emulate authenticity. People will start seeing these in time.
People are spineless pussies, that’d rather bend over to a devil, than let go their convenience and select an alternative.
More news at 5.
You can’t tell a drug addict to start drinking coffee instead of using (add drug name here), you know.
In other words – those folk are so addicted to Reddit they won’t leave it even if reddit started charging a dollar for each time they post.
I will occasionally check Reddit, but I’ve dropped it by about 90%. And I don’t post there anymore, even if someone is asking something I know the answer to. I would rather contribute on Lemmy and bring people into a FOSS, copyleft, non-corporate alternative.
Reddit wasn’t going to die. Wasn’t about winning and losing. It was about making people aware of the bad business practice running in the background and trying to get them to change. Also, it would have been much better if there was a clear alternative offered. I only found out about Lemmy through a friend. Never saw anything about it throughout the protest.
Apps went away, so did I.
No idea what people mean with „winning“. Clickbaity stuff.
They mean the last of the big protesting subs finally stopped their protest rules. The places with rules saying you had to post John Oliver, or everything is nsfw, or any of the other stuff that popped up as a protest 2 months ago is now gone. In pet because admins slashed the mod teams and replaced them with cronies
Which is hilarious because the new mods have no clue what the fuck they’re doing, and the content creators have left to places like here. So now it’s like a bunch of 15 year olds posting shit.
I literally don’t care anymore. I should thank these greedy corporations, I’m spending more time in my workshop, making furniture, read more, using all this little off-time over the day much better. As I see it, we won. People. Gotta go now, a kitchen cabinet wants to have it’s final touches.
Reddit won guys. They won a lower valuation lmao.