That's a big yikes and I hope they will find another way...

There are a lot of reasons for this general trend, but let me add my two cents to make a case for the sudden influx of user-opposed changes:

I don't have a source for this, but I remember that Linus spoke about this on the LTT WAN-Show. Basically, abunch of big silicon valley investors are pulling out of all of the big platforms, therefore leaving them with a huge hole in their profitability. This means, that right now a lot of them are scrambling to scrape together more money over time, so all of those platforms are sustainable.

Obviously this has to observed in conjunction with all of those are trends that are already mentioned by other comments, but this gives more basis as to why now, and why to this extent.

If someone else knows what I'm talking about please add quotes and sources because I don't like the good old 'dude trust me' guarantee one bit.

Omg that was the Reddit client I used

All my dreams are coming true. This was worth seeing Reddit crash and burn. Yes. I like this new age.

don't worry, they're coming. a bunch of bigger third party app Devs have said they will make an app for Lemmy, and that will include iOS apps as well I'm sure. it's just a matter of time.

For some reason, this whole chaos is more true to the Reddit I know than everything has been for the last years.

I am itching so much for the perfect episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight commemorating the most absurd but effective protest in histor, sounding off the whole mess of a situation and poking some more at spez. It'll be a feast.

That is incredible. It's hilarious, it's satirical, it's a sharp criticism and it absolutely hammers the stupidity of every Reddit statement home.

What a great team.

It is. GDPR in the EU dictates that every user which requests their information has to get it in 30 days, and every user who removes their information has to be able to get it removed (I think the time span for that is even shorter, so more pressure for the server admins)

Fmhy are just providers of the instance and that's what their general communities focus on. For information regarding the high seas, this is the community you want to look into.

Yeah ppl already predicted it's probably gonna be a battle of who can place the most shorts in the least amount of time on Reddit stock when they go IPO. There's no reason to go through with it any longer, it will only hurt his company more.

Who knew the best "celebrity" endorsement for the fediverse comes from the CEO of Reddit...

I think not completely replaced, but it will swallow (sorry not sorry) a lot of traditional porn.

On one hand I'm really happy that ppl will be able to generate everything and rampant copyright issues and stuff will get dampened, but then there's also gonna be an isses of identity theft or defamation and similar which could become a problem. We're living in wild times, but I don't think it'll be utopian or dystopian. That said things will change in steps, although they will a lot.