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As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket
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BTW, here's a link to that TechDirt article which proceeds to tear Huffman a new asshole in the most spectacular fashion. Well worth the read.
His point about Reddit being late to the app game is precisely why I deleted all my comments except the one about navigating to Lemmy and deleted my account. I'm not sure if I'd have stuck around over 11 years ago if third parties didn't make Reddit apps. For me, they made Reddit. And now Reddit wants to force me to use their inferior app by running them out of business? Farewell, and thanks to Sync/Dawson for all the years of service to the community.
17 years. SEVENTEEN YEARS I spent on Reddit, through thick and thin. Gamergate, Ellen Pao, AMA collapse, the whole shebang. I never would have gotten through it if it weren't for Alien Blue and Apollo. But this shit? here? and now they're just nuking entire mod teams en masse? I left 19 days ago, and you know what I did? I joined a team developing an iOS app for Lemmy.
Nero can strum his lute and watch as Rome burns. I don't care, for I have better things to do and better places to be. I have found my new home.
I have also been there 17 years and deleted my account and all my content (as far as the blackout allowed at least). This is on a whole other level than any reddit scandals I have seen before, especially in terms of doubling, triping, quadrupling,... down on it every time.
Another long-timer. Would add to your list of apps that made it all tolerable BaconIt (Windows Phone, went through a phase). 3rd party apps ARE (sorry, WERE) the Reddit experience for millions of users. Huffman's declarations are hubris. He may own the 2-monitor setups, cubicles, payroll and have keys to the building, but he is not the owner of the thoughts, feelings and ideas users forged into the site's lifeblood. It's not his to monetize.
I dunno, I quite like watching Rome burn. I've been away from Reddit for awhile, real life is far more entertaining and rewarding. I didn't think it would end with such a bang.
I have TechDirt in my RSS reader and whenever a Mike Masnick byline turns up, you know it's going to be a doozy.
Boy, it was a delicious read.