It'd be too late. I nuked my account, overwrote my comments, and uninstalled my apps early this morning. I don't intend to return.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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People would go back.
Reddit is absolutely, 100% certainly not going to step back on these change. They've made up their mind long ago.
But just for the hypothetical: I think they lost a LOT of trust with the two most essential parts of the community - users and mods. Also the company (or rather, its CEO) may have taken significant image damage due to the "AMA" spez did.
I think business will go on as usual, but the decline will be more and more noticable over time. It will go the way of Digg. Unless of course reddit decides to hire moderation themselves. But we all know they probably wont want do do that. The course seems set to selling the data they have already accumulated.
I doubt reddit will hire mods, they've been crying the platform is not profitable, imagine having to pay several millions more, tho reddit without mods is dead.
I'm not going back, epescially since Apollo will be shutting down. I'm looking forward to what the dev can do with the Mlem iOS app, and I'm very interested in the community that is being built here.
I would probably stay here. I deleted my Account on Reddit and i do not forgive spez for the decission he has done.
Yeah, I'd go back. I notice the bot content has gotten bad on Reddit, but the communities I follow are still okay.
They've made it clear they won't. And since most subs are only going dark for a measly 48 hours they have no incentive to. It's literally like that "Oh no, anyway..." meme.
And think of it this way: even if you they revert the changes (or you just decide to please /u/spez and only use the official app) do you think the platform will continue to get better or worse? He's shown his hand it's nothing good for the mods or the users.
I probably won't permanently boycott them if they revert, but won't leave here either.
I prefer the smaller crowd here. Reddit just feels like a mall these days. Between all the bullshit, tencent, ads and assholes, Iโm not looking back.