That is awesome.
Wonder how many man hours were spent on that.
Reddit Refugee
That is awesome.
Wonder how many man hours were spent on that.
Of course smaller companies serving markets the big guys don’t want to bother with isn’t actually competition. But the big guys want to crush them anyway. So stupid.
Do it. Show your true colors, Reddit.
Why would third party apps return? Reddit has lost their trust in a manner that I can’t see them recovering.
Exactly. We can’t trust them to act in good faith.
To me, the argument for accepting Meta into the Fediverse goes beyond gain and loss. If you run an Internet service, you have a moral obligation to make a good faith attempt to interoperate with anyone using the protocol as intended.
But that’s the thing: We don’t trust that Meta will be using the protocol “as intended”.
They’re goats. What do you expect?
Battle’s not over until the third party apps go offline. That’s when the real damage is bound to start.
It’s an ongoing shit show, and given the migration, it does affect us. So it is worthwhile to keep an eye on it.
Plus, many of us Reddit refugees cared about the communities we participated in. Even if we don’t care for Reddit as a company anymore, we do care about the communities we left behind.
Same here. Cancelled the day the blackout started as sort of a personal statement. Not that I expect that statement to be heard by anyone.
My go-to is Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
CEO Steve Huffman told me in an interview last week, “90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium. Why would we subsidize this small group? Why would we effectively pay them to use Reddit but not everybody else who also contributes to Reddit?”
It’s called a “loss leader,” Steve.
Dude’s sounding like the kind of guy that cuts IT, security, and janitorial because they don’t bring in revenue. But then, he did say he’s following the Musk model. Which is, basically, that.
“I learned it from you, Spez! I learned it from you!”
Whether or not they actually used the office, they still owed rent, did they not?
Yeah, basically a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy…
Ah, gatekeepers. So easy to anger.
When the “vocal minority” are the ones providing quality content and weeding out the crap (i.e. power users and mods), it will take its toll. That minority is critical for making the whole thing work.
Sounds up his alley.
So true.