Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
Starting this comment a bit flamebatey: I think reddit will stay around and I’m very very grateful to u/spez for keeping his position in spite of all the opposition.
Because he single-handedly seeded lemmy and kbin with enough users to take these platforms out of a niche and make them viable.
Now in the future we wil still have reddit (with a lot worse moderation and a lot more annoying ads) but we suddenly also have an alternative.
Yes, the fediverse already was there before, but when I check out the old content I find it very hard to find something I’d have been interested in - which suddenly changed in the last few days.
It’s like the musk twitter/mastodon. moment all over again. And with federation it at the same time more annoying and feels much more like the old world again, when individual people not huge companies would own the web.
(Btw this is my very first comment ever on lemmy, too - and it suddenly doesn’t feel like it transfer ownership of my words to a corporate giant, anymore)
Reddit will remain but it’ll be just a meme page, I doubt if any of the more specialised, specialist communities will stay. It’ll be just another 9gag.
I’ve been on it since 2010, I watched it grow and evolve and it honestly looked very reasonable the whole time, progress was for the better.
then spez decided to kill it in a few weeks. Over a decade of progress will be gone.
Starting this comment a bit flamebatey: I think reddit will stay around and I’m very very grateful to u/spez for keeping his position in spite of all the opposition.
Because he single-handedly seeded lemmy and kbin with enough users to take these platforms out of a niche and make them viable.
Now in the future we wil still have reddit (with a lot worse moderation and a lot more annoying ads) but we suddenly also have an alternative.
Yes, the fediverse already was there before, but when I check out the old content I find it very hard to find something I’d have been interested in - which suddenly changed in the last few days.
It’s like the musk twitter/mastodon. moment all over again. And with federation it at the same time more annoying and feels much more like the old world again, when individual people not huge companies would own the web.
(Btw this is my very first comment ever on lemmy, too - and it suddenly doesn’t feel like it transfer ownership of my words to a corporate giant, anymore)
Reddit will remain but it’ll be just a meme page, I doubt if any of the more specialised, specialist communities will stay. It’ll be just another 9gag. I’ve been on it since 2010, I watched it grow and evolve and it honestly looked very reasonable the whole time, progress was for the better. then spez decided to kill it in a few weeks. Over a decade of progress will be gone.