If Reddit were to revert it’s changes to 3rd party apps would you stay on Lemmy or move back to Reddit?

  • fossilesque@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Trust is the hardest thing to reclaim once lost, and this isn’t the first break. Big social is having problems, it’s the natural course of things.

  • kalipike@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The CEO just tripled down and said they are not changing their intended API pricing regardless of how many subs and users go dark.

    Even if they did, I think a lot of redditors have been fed up with some things with Reddit (both the company and the first-party app) for a while.

    Of course, there will be people who just don’t care and will continue to go about their redditing as usual, and those who will go back. A fair number of my close friends don’t care at all as they use the first-party app, have no complaints, don’t moderate any subreddits, and don’t follow the Internet news.

    I would love to see my primary communities move over to federated social platforms. It reminds me of the Web1.0 and earlier Web2.0 days.

  • ForynGilnith@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me, they’d have to

    1. Replace /u/spez
    2. Implement some sort of publicly auditable accountability re: shadowbans and database-level comment editing
    3. Open-source significant parts of their platform.

    I have zero expectation that any of these things will happen. The most healthy way forward, for an open and free internet, is the meritocracy of the fediverse.

  • treagod@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I’ll stay here, the decentralized concept makes so much more sense for this kind of application

  • 15Redstones@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    There’s loads of small communties on reddit that haven’t migrated yet, so I’ll probably keep using reddit a little even if they don’t revert… But a lot less.

  • gzrrt@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy fixes the fundamental problem with Reddit, so I don’t see the point in regressing back to that.

  • pinwurm@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m seeing how things play out.

    I certainly like Lemmy and I could very well use both for a while. I’m mostly worried my favorite subs (especially my local City sub) won’t migrate or be an active enough group here. Time will tell. I want to follow the community, not the platform.

    • gzrrt@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I’m hoping that regional instances take off. Feels like a really natural fit for federated servers- trying to join https://lemmy.nyc as we speak (and get it connected to the major instances, from there)

  • dingobytes@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Nah I think im done. The smaller size actually makes it less scary to participate. I’m much more willing to say something on a small forum, but on a big subreddit I’ll sit there for an hour before posting a comment, knowing that somehow someone somewhere will find a way to misinterpret what I’m trying to say. Usually I just wind up deleting it too. This fediverse seems cool as hell - I should have looked into this earlier.