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From @christianselig@mastodon.social on the #RedditBlackout: (media.kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by tchambers@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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[–] mookman288@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The way that Christian and other developers were treated by reddit, their administrative team, and their CEO, is just abhorrent. There's no justification to explain their behavior. It's just so cold. To attack someone from a position of power for simply defending themselves, after attacking them for a mutually beneficial compromise, is just morally bankrupt behavior.

I don't blame him (and others) for just wanting to stop the relationship with reddit. Even if they backpedaled, there would be no trust left.

[–] DAVENP0RT@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit relies almost exclusively on hobbyists and volunteers to both manage, moderate, and create content for the site. They've burned a lot of bridges with this stunt by blatantly giving the finger to a bunch of those hobbyists and volunteers.

[–] onceitbegins@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I suspect reddit will survive as long as subreddits come back and won't go dark indefinitely. Karmafarmers, reposters, actual OC content creators and bots need to delete themselves from that platform as well. Are majority of people going to do that? I seriously doubt that. Considering that majority of subreddits that have gone dark have decided to only do it for a few days speaks volumes what will happen next.

[–] nude@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit isn't going anywhere.

Its going to be a different environment though.

The people who don't understand or care about whats going on will stay, and they will consume the influencer style content that is going to hang around and fill the void. Reddit wants profit, so its changing to a model where they have end to end control and stripping the 3rd party development and modification.

Hopefully the development community packs up and moves to the fediverse.

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit has just culled its nerd population.

[–] Larvitar@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@LChitman I'm sure this was intended to get rid of the users that aren't easy to qualify into revenue.

@tchambers @mookman288 @DAVENP0RT @onceitbegins @nude

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Absolutely, I agree. Whether or not it is good or successful, I reckon the owners will consider Reddit more marketable to advertisers in a couple of months. The 'milquetoasting' of Reddit has been going on for a long old time now but I think they're close to their endgame.

[–] nude@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its pretty wild though that he claimed that reddit isnt profitable right now if they are indeed planning on an IPO in the near future.
I know the world has a short memory, but its a pretty bad claim for a CEO to make who wants to sell off the platform

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Especially as the platform is actively losing members. Even if you bank on maintaining a large enough number, you've admitted the company wasn't profitable even before it's challenges. What chance is there of profitability this late into the game, if that's the case!?

[–] FirmRip@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

As a long-time Apollo user, this whole thing really bums me out. I was only a casual user until I started using Apollo, and the way that Christian would listen to the community and implement features and ideas was so refreshing.

Apollo made browsing an information-rich site like Reddit so much easier on mobile than on a desktop machine, and that's no small feat! It - and the wealth of great 3P apps - will be missed.

And all for what? Greed?

[–] jotybro@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apollo is the only iOS app I have bought lifetime for and continued tipping every couple months. I’ve been on Reddit since 2010 and just deleted my account this morning and I will never be back on the platform. The way Reddit leadership has defamed Christian is absolutely unacceptable and I refuse to give them any more data.

[–] LDRMS@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I also bought lifetime for Apollo and did all my modding from that app. I literally can’t mod (I have been for 7 years) now, so what can I do? I’m not going to go out of my way to go on my laptop just to mod, I’m not getting paid. So today I set all the subreddits I mod to private indefinitely, deleted 8.5 years of comments and posts and logged out.

The way they treated Christian was the worst type of behavior I’ve ever seen a company (shit bag CEO) ever treat a developer that literally created an app to help serve the website better, like wtf.