Anybody trying to save reddit at this point is a fool.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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The scammers. Imagine being some dude at a sketch marketing firm who just bought a handful of high karma, organic accounts and were about to start advertising. I can't imagine the good quality ones are cheap. Turns out they're worth nothing now.
Offer me money.
Spez: Yes!
Power, too, promise me that.
Spez: All that I have and more. Please...
Offer me everything I ask for.
Spez: Anything you want...
I want Apollo back, you son of a bitch.
Reddit wants to kill 3PAs. What I don't understand is why they're going through the whole act of pretending that the API is going subscription when they're making it prohibitively expensive and only giving them a month to put it in place. Why not just be honest and shut it down to third parties entirely?
Simple, they hope some poor schmuck actually tries to make it work and instead of a reasonable split for the labour of the 3PA's dev they take basically all of it 🤪
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I want to go full lemmy but the interface/appearance is a real turn off with comment threads being visually hard to follow. What we need is RES for lemmy
The interface is quite customisable; I'm sure if it gets traction people will provide in that regard.
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Just walk away, let them have their pile of turd and eat it too.
Lol my guess is 0 response from spez until the normies start screaming about their apps not working.
They should just abandon the site instead and leave Reddit to clean up the mess they've made.
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These people invested so much time and effort into their communities, I understand why they are doing all this to keep them
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im confused why people a. think spez had enough control to make these decisions. b. that killing the 3rd party apps wasnt the point.
almost zero notice, exorbitant costs for stripped access...
there was never going to be a compromise. 'they' want to wall their garden, and thats all she wrote
Spez has all the control, he’s the CEO. I find it unlikely that the board of directors is micro-managing him to this degree. Otherwise, why even have a CEO?
They handed down an edict to make Reddit profitable and take the company public by the end of the year, and this is how he believes it can be done.
There's a lingering belief that Spez is the same Spez who criticized Digg as too corporate and described Reddit in terms of community. It's difficult, sometimes, for people to realize when fellow travelers are no longer fellows.
There's also some satisfaction in knowing that in the end, you did all you could to avert a bad outcome. Even if it passes, you don't need to have regrets.
Because they don't want it to be true.
They just need time to go through the stages of mourning.
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Can't imagine what they could deliver that would bring Apollo or RIF back.
Why do the mods care so much? Can anyone point me to an explainer of how can mods monetize their modding? I also don't understand why I see people here on Lemmy modding dozens of communities or looking to be mods of communities their posting history says nothing of.
I'm sure some of them like the power. But many of them just don't want to leave their community (because let's face it, a lot of communities won't leave and don't care about the drama). They feel like they're losing a friend group. It's the same reason why people stay in shitty friend groups even when they're treated like crap. They don't want to be alone or to have to start over.
Thanks for the answer. That does sound like a pretty good motivation.
I think it is more about moderators using 3rd party apps to do what the native Reddit app cannot. Reddit has dragged their feet for years on proper moderation tools on mobile.
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Those requests are pretty hilarious.
The people who are staying on reddit, or fighting for their place on reddit, are um....yea nvm.
Let's enjoy this while we got it. (: