Just deleted all my Reddit accounts! Another social media to forget about… 🥱
I just did that too, first I deleted all my posts and comments after that the account went away.
I literally just signed up for lemmy after reading this post on reddit. I’m ready for reddit to crash. Decentralized apps seem like the way to go. It seems super short-sighted on Reddit’s part to be basically extorting all these 3rd party apps that are super popular.
Unfortunately, I doubt Reddit would crash. I don’t think these online protests have much sway anymore. Twitter’s definitely didn’t. And ironically, Lemmy might crash a couple times with going over user capacity…
Either way, we ought to work to avoid it. Chop chop, people, content, we need content! Lifeblood of link aggregators is people having topics.
There is a thing, twitter has already had an okay and quite usable official app alongside third party apps. Reddit official app is buggy as hell and not very intuitive. I think too Reddit will survive, but I think the quality of content is going to go down since many power users were using third party apps.
But for Reddit officials that wouldn’t be a problem since they don’t care for quality but for engagement.
Makes literally no sense to me that Reddit couldn’t afford to provide a price exception to 3rd party apps that have helped grow their community and website over the years. I’ve been using Reddit Is Fun for almost a decade now, and I’m not switching to their official app.
Companies are getting too comfortable when they have no competition. Really hope a Fediverse alternative will kick off like Mastodon did (ironically I’m placing my bets on kbin even though I use Lemmy. Seems like the simpler alternative that’ll be easier to invite people over).
You can’t charge apps differently for the same stuff or people will sue you.
Reddit wants to bring them all down. I wouldn’t be surprised if they take down the entire API in a year to save money.
Instead of closing down it would be cool for 3rd party apps to switch to Lemmy but I know it would be a lot of work.
The first one to fall, unfortunately. The conversation the Apollo Dev had with the admins seemed pretty bleak. I’m slowly accepting that Reddit needs to die. As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.
As a Redditor, we built it. We can kill it.
Maybe. But it may well be, that Reddit has enough momentum to keep going with the shitload of dummy users who don’t care about third party apps or quality.
For all we know, half the users over there (re)posting content could be bots that continue indefinitely, reposting more and more popular content from other sites like TikTok with more bots leaving comments that they stole from other posts. Reddit could in theory continue operating even with zero actual users.
True, but bots might also no longer be feasible with the API pricing. So they even alienate that!
I feel lots of people say “Who cares about 3rd party apps?” don’t realize the mod community also heavily relies on 3rd party apps. So high chance of the quality of subreddits going downhill regardless. Either way, anyone using Reddit still should be looking for a way off the platform.
I currently enjoy the amount of users in Lemmy. It’s a nice community now that feels like the old internet days.
So I hope not too many people swap over.
My wife uses reddit, and couldn’t be bothered to use anything other than the official app. Sadly she’s in the majority with this. I’d say somewhere between 5-20% of mobile only/heavy reddit users will end up over here, and that’s heavily dependent on whether or not the subreddits that they like come over here too. I see far too much content for the moment just linking back to reddit
The question is: Are users like your wife submitting popular content, or are they mostly consumers? If nobody submits good content, there is nothing to consume.
