Reddit mods are calling for an “affordable return” for third-party apps
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They want Reddit to respond by June 29th.

Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

  • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    The open letters showed me those people only cared about their position in the first place. Otherwise they wouldn’t be bargaining, knowing it’s useless, they’d leave like the rest of us did

    • itsnotlupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      those people only cared about their position

      probably not. This ain’t Star Trek, we don’t know how to disintegrate a community, beam it down, and reintegrate it in the same shape in a different place.

      the fall of Reddit implies the demise of many communities that called it home.
      maybe it’s fine in the long run, new communities form elsewhere and some of the people in the former end up in the latter, but it the short to mid term, it’s traumatic for anybody that was emotionally invested.

      I see those open letters as last ditch attempts to preserve a status-quo where maybe people can pretend a little longer that everything’s okay.

      in the end, everybody’s gonna grieve this differently. I don’t think it makes them bad people.

      • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think it makes them bad people, either, but this letter is so vague it sounds like begging.

        • itsnotlupus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, they just don’t have a lot of leverage with Reddit in this struggle.

          It’s spez’ sandbox, and it’s our own fault for building sandcastles in it.

          Some of them believed that their free labor was somehow irreplaceable or maybe just worth something, and that should mean they had some leverage, but Reddit’s answer has been a resounding “lol no.”

          But that’s the reason it’s an open letter. Not to convince Reddit to stop being shitty, because they’ve been rather clear that they’re committed to this, but to convince anyone else that Reddit is maybe not good, which might in turn impact whatever metrics they care about, and maybe finally provide some sliver of leverage.

          I don’t like their odds, but they’re trying.