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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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They've waited a long time to profit from our conversations online for a long time. I mean back in the day reddit didn't host any content directly until self posts were created. For images and videos you'd always link to YouTube or giffy. Reddit ran quite cheaply and effeciently.
First Reddit wanted to own the content which is starting offering to host images and videos inside it's product and now they're about to paywall it off and wrap it in adverts for their own client. It's about taking your content and owning it in the sense they can charge for it and it's taken a few steps to realise this.
Whether kbin or lemmy or any alternative survives, people should always prefer the approach of keeping content platform netural. Outside of individual forums and walled gardens. Host things outside of slack, outside of Reddit, outside of Facebook so that it's open to the whole internet and for new platforms in the future.
Reddit users who want to continue to enjoy Reddit communities should still try and host outside the platform for the benefit of others.
Here here. Its about time we took back our content. Corporate ghouls has the shidas touch. Anything they touch turns to shit.