To kick off June, the world of 3rd party reddit apps was put on notice – prepare to pay by the end of the month or go away, they were essentially told. And well, it’s now June 30 and very few appear willing to pay. The end has come for some of the best reddit apps. For those catching up on this...
We actually have the best case scenario here in lemmy! Those people that yelled at mods for protesting and generally don’t give a shit how awful spez is and how toxic reddit has become, don’t give a shit about the api changes so they will stay on reddit!
Meanwhile the rest of us, even if it’s a smaller number migrate here and foster a community of discussion, respect and not being a douchebag!
Even the apps that are popping up for lemmy, yes they are buggy, yes servers are slow, but not no-one really complaines because it’s a worthy growing process.
Also, and this is by far the most important thing, this decentralized structure is absolutely vital to saving the internet.
We’ve all gotten funneled into like 5 major corporate sites, and we’ve let little sites die because of it. I hope with this trend we can reverse this and switch more to a donation model.
I hope everyone on here realizes that eventually we’ll have to pay for lemmy and severs. We need to fund it, not for profit, but sustainability.
Fuck the ad model and fuck infinite growth for shareholders. Let’s just make something nice we all pitch in a few bucks for and enjoy.
To your point about how all the spez lovers stayed there, I just had a disagreement with someone here. We brought up our points like adults and I agreed I missed something in the original post and that they are right. I rarely if ever got to see that on Reddit in the last few years.
It’s just too many people on reddit. All it takes is one asshole to change the tone of the conversation and everyone piles on and things turn to shit.
Also hiding the downvote count just fostered negativity.
It’s been about 5 years since I’ve really engaged at all with most of Reddit, the API drama and renewed push to populate the alternatives seems to have achieved exactly what you describe. I even think the small barrier to entry for registering an account in the Fediverse is filtering people.
Many of us have been longing for something like this to happen.
They honestly deserve each other
I don’t love spez, but I also wasn’t a fan of mods vandalizing existing subreddits (questionably at the request of their own community). Information the mods didn’t necessarily have any hand in creating being wiped from public access – not cool…
This has all just added Google to the list of places online that now suck a whole lot more than they even a few months ago.
Unfortunately, money is the only language leaches like Spez understand. So for that reason, fuck Reddit and Spez all together.
Well said
I personally love taking every opportunity I can to not be a douchebag.