What users of Reddit are not realizing when they bash Apollo is that this is more than Apollo. It’s all third party apps. And this goes beyond third party Reddit clients. It’s also custom bots that “help” keep those subs clean-ish. People do not comprehend exactly what is impacted by API changes. The mods see it, people don’t.
I love watching liberals lose their shit over this. They're getting absolutely destroyed by their corporate overlords.
They will learn nothing. They will just say "omg it's just like in the authoritarian China" and move to the next thing.
There's already news of Reddit execs forcing mods to reopen their subs, or else they'll replace the entire mod team with one that's willing to obey
How to say the blackout is hurting their bottom line without admitting it's hitting their bottom line.
The admins are banning mods and replacing them. All the subs will be back eventually. Libs will go back there once they either get bored over here or tired of having to actually see ideals that are different than theirs. It will become Facebook 2.0 and be even more filled with Westwood propaganda.
I do wonder if this could turn into a bigger problem for Reddit. I'm super new to Lemmy - I always liked how Reddit works from a ui/functionality perspective but I didn't like how the site was run or honestly even the people in this site. But I heard about Lemmy because of this and I think I like Lemmy better.
It just reminds me of what happened with Digg. Lots of small problems then a short series of bigger management fumbles made Digg go from the biggest link aggregator on the net to some obscure site nobody's heard of in like 5 years. I think it's a little harder for big sites like Reddit to fail nowadays but regardless - platforms like Lemmy show that Reddit doesn't really have anything special going for it besides a larger userbase.
It was easier to leave digg back then. The 'normie' non-techie audience wasn't as big in the era and they mostly stuck to MySpace and buzzfeed. Digg was where the tech nerds went and thus the nerds had the power.
The non-techies are now the largest user base of reddit and they don't care about the changes and will continue their usage. The executives know this and are moving things to curtail to that audience. These are the same people that don't run adblock or ghostery and will click on ads and pay for awards.
Huffman doesn't give a shit about us or the small niche communities we have created. Forums are dead. Reddit powers Google. He wants to turn reddit into a social media platform, as it sorta already has become.
It is kind of sad regarding other communities, espacially non-political like r/cptsd, r/pigeons (people loved my pigeons there) or r/geese. Its cool if you can show someone a picture of your pigeon and its getting a positive response.
Woh woh woh woh if you start a pigon community here ill definitely be involved, i dont own any but im obsessed with them.
Pigeons are great! I loved them since I was a child. I don't know how to share something on lemmy, but I managed to create a community: https://lemmygrad.ml/c/pigeon (How do I share properly? In Reddit you type r/loremipsum)
I will post there pictures about my two pigeons. But also cultural or historic discussions about pigeons are welcome.
