Hi all! What’s your opinion? Let’s pretend reddit would give in to the protest and cancel the plan to increase the API pricing. Would all of you go back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy?

I mean… what has been said by the CEO cannot be unsaid now. We all now know what we are in the eyes of the CEO.

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    1 year ago

    I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.

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    If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

    But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

    So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.

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    1 year ago

    The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it’s understandable: they’re a giant platform on the web, but they’re unprofitable - they’d like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I’ve already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.

    My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This “mass exodus” is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don’t care. But I’m enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I’m just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.

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      Maybe if reddit didn’t spend millions a year delivering images and videos through i.reddit and v.reddit instead of letting the perfectly viable 3rd party platforms continue to like they had 8+ years previously they wouldn’t be bleeding money for quite literally no reason.

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      I also think Reddit is far from dead. The blackout will end and then Reddit still has many more users and thus much more content. That pull back people after a while.

      I just hope this boost for the Fediverse brought it to a sustainable level until the next Reddit scandal. Maybe the IPO or whatever.

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    I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.

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      Holy shit, I forgot about the Aimee Knight situation. What a vile human.

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    I would be on both. I’m assuming that CEO isn’t long for that position but we’ll see. Reddit survives though. It’s really a small mod protest with the majority of casual users not caring about it. However the scab mods that will end up being put in place will soon realize how hard this volunteer job is and may never know how the alt apps assisted so well with it. I think the best thing subs could do at this point is open up and let the spam fly TBH.

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      “Ending up like Facebook” is framed as a bad thing here, but it’s an amazingly great outcome if you’re a Reddit executive or investor. Facebook may have fallen out of favor among the kinds of people who post on Lemmy, but it is massively profitable and is either the #2 or #3 most visited site on the Internet depending on whether you count YouTube as part of Google. Reddit would love to fail like that!

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    I don’t care much for reddit as a whole. Since I joined lemmy have I used my phone so many more hours per day that it is scary. I was only on reddit for a few minutes per day… So reddit is maybe better for my health 😂 The only sad thing is that the niches subs I liked didn’t even seem to know about this whole thing and nobody seems to come over either… So no I won’t go back to reddit. But I am not as black and white either, for morals sake will I not use reddit until after July and after that may I check out my niched subs maybe once a week or less. But we will see maybe I don’t even care to have a look when that time comes. Just like fb I just logg in to see i don’t miss any major events maybe 4 times per year haha

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    I do see a way that I would use reddit beside lemmy again. But that would take a lot of change from reddit.

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    I wouldn’t go back to reddit as a poster/commentator if they reversed their decision. But rather I would continue to use it as a resource, as I usually find typing in “<query> reddit” into Google to be far more useful and time saving than sifting through irrelevant search results and clickbait news articles for a simple question.

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    Does reddit have a chance? Yes. Is there a chance i go back? Getting slimmer with move spaz makes.

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    I think there’s room for both. Lots of people don’t care about all the API drama or about what the CEO says in interviews, and there are easily enough of those people to maintain critical mass. But I think Lemmy isn’t far off from also having critical mass in enough communities to have some staying power.

    I’m now checking Lemmy before I check reddit when I want my doom-scrolling fix. But I still visit Reddit, even if less often than I used to, because it still has some unique communities that don’t have analogs anywhere else. For example, there is no fediverse equivalent of /r/AskHistorians (that I’m aware of).

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    I don’t think much good is going to happen until they fire their CEO. Which would require that reddit suffer some significant losses, not something that’s going to be accomplished in a week, but over much more time with increasing competition and content creators/managers moving out.

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    I would go back to Apollo if it was back. We all want them to make a change, and if they did then we should reward that change.

    And it really looks as if they aren’t trying to pull the ol’ “let’s give you the crazy high price so you stomach a lower price” thing, so it would be a genuine retract and a win.