The move is controversial, with many third-party apps having to shut down as a result, but the Reddit CEO has his reasons and doesn’t appear to be backing down
I hate to be a pessimist, but it’s not gonna work.
Most big subs will reopen, and those that don’t will get their moderators replaced. The bulk of the user base is gonna switch to the official app and meme about how bad it is right on Reddit and get Reddit Gold for it.
I’m still gonna stick to either Lemmy or Kbin. I like the smaller community here; it reminds me of Reddit’s olden days when everyone wasn’t a cynical asshole.
I agree that it probably won’t work but I’m trying to be hopeful that people will see that there are other places to post content and interact with each other that don’t view us as cattle.
I can’t stand the stock Reddit app and more importantly I think it’s disgusting the way Reddit has treated the Apollo dev so I won’t be going back regardless of what happens. If people go to lemmy or kbin or whatever other alternatives I’ll join but if not I guess I just won’t participate and this kind of content anymore.
Several large subs are not private anymore according to https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
80 not private anymore out of 372 ones that went private (of the top 500 by number of subscribers).
Yeah I think he may have even amended his initial statement to say that he is shutting down regardless of if they change course. He said he no longer has any faith in the platform and doesn’t want to keep wasting his time working on something that Reddit doesn’t value.
I’m really dying to find out if this blackout continues past the first 48 hours and if it has any impact on their decision.
It sort of doesn’t matter to me since the Apollo dev already said he wasn’t going to keep his app up due to how spez handled the whole situation.
I hate to be a pessimist, but it’s not gonna work.
Most big subs will reopen, and those that don’t will get their moderators replaced. The bulk of the user base is gonna switch to the official app and meme about how bad it is right on Reddit and get Reddit Gold for it.
I’m still gonna stick to either Lemmy or Kbin. I like the smaller community here; it reminds me of Reddit’s olden days when everyone wasn’t a cynical asshole.
I agree that it probably won’t work but I’m trying to be hopeful that people will see that there are other places to post content and interact with each other that don’t view us as cattle.
I can’t stand the stock Reddit app and more importantly I think it’s disgusting the way Reddit has treated the Apollo dev so I won’t be going back regardless of what happens. If people go to lemmy or kbin or whatever other alternatives I’ll join but if not I guess I just won’t participate and this kind of content anymore.
Apollo, Sync, RIF and others have all announced that they are closing permanently. Some of the big subs have done the same.
I fully expect others to join. There were more subs that went dark by the end of yesterday than began the day!
Several large subs are not private anymore according to https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ 80 not private anymore out of 372 ones that went private (of the top 500 by number of subscribers).
I think he said June 30 it’s done, barring spez changing his mandate ofc.
Yeah I think he may have even amended his initial statement to say that he is shutting down regardless of if they change course. He said he no longer has any faith in the platform and doesn’t want to keep wasting his time working on something that Reddit doesn’t value.