Why is /r/Videos shutting down on June 12th? How will this change affect regular users? More info here.
Why is /r/Videos shutting down on June 12th? How will this change affect regular users? More info here.
The /r/videos mods are going all out and someone made this lovely graphic to explain why subs are going dark next week.
While I’d love to have my users on Lemmy, I also hope that this actually does something for Reddit and they reverse course on their planed changes.
Ultimately will break my Reddit addiction for me. Not enough content here to replace it entirely, and I’m fine with that. I suspect that the damage has been done and a lot of people will not being going back to Reddit regardless if they backpeddle or not.
I've been in a loop of "Open reddit- oh wait I can't do that anymore, which apps are lemmy and tildes in?" for the last couple of days.
I'm both on lemmy and tildes. After about a few days on tlides, then i go back to reddit to check what's up. I immediately get disappointed by the quality of the comments there.
Haha. Getting my last reddit fix and telling in every comment to come here
Agree. This place is big enough. I'm happy. Reddit can go "insert your desired action here".
This is a positive step.
Reddit can go “insert your desired action here”.
Will cactus be involved?
I'm not putting it past reddit to suddenly backpedal and/or lower the API charges significantly then say they listen to their users/communities. And then slowly push 3rd party apps away. The damage has been done for me.
These execs that are pushing for IPO are probably so out of touch that your sentiment is well placed.
I am skeptical. The pricing on the API wasn’t merely unrealistically optimistic, it was “eleventy morbillion dollars” high. People only negotiate on numbers when they actually want to be paid. Reddit doesn’t want to be paid, it wants the apps to die.
And then they still won't allow NSFW content but somehow people will forget about that part...
I don't expect them to. The amount users (mods excluded) using third-party apps is quite small I think, so they'll just take the loss (if any).
Crazy some of the comments sections tho, a lot of people are pissed at Mods for backing the protest. Its like people who cant see past their noses how bad this idea is.
Take a look at /r/nba. Even worse.
That floored me holy fuck. Some people are fucked.
Wow you aren't kidding. I just sorted by controversial on a couple of blackout posts. It's both disappointing and fascinating to see how short sighted some people are.
The number of people in those threads asking “what is happening?” is depressing given that the OPs explain everything.
About on par with people saying “official app works for me what’s the problem?” and of course people acting like the 3rd party apps totally could easily pay the fees so are in the wrong.
I’d say such comments are Reddit backed disinfo, except that the average person can be extremely dense.
It's probably why companies like Reddit can get away with stuff like this. Most common users have no idea how much they're being shat on. They couldn't care less about the platform as long as they get their content.
It's nice to hear that so many subreddits and mods trying to do something about this... they can see the brick wall that Reddit's owners are about to plow into, and are trying to steer the site away from probable destruction. If they're dead set on selling Reddit though, I'm pessimistic about whether or not they will care enough to course correct at this point. Maybe it got their attention when Fidelity cut their valuation by 41%, but the lack of any response so far despite significant backlash has me thinking that perhaps they don't intend to respond. Regardless of whether that's their intent or not, they're certainly sending the message that they don't care. I wouldn't be surprised if they take whatever paycheck they can get, abandon the ship and have zero concerns when it sinks on someone else's watch.
I'm sure 3rd party app usage is low. It's probably only a tiny minority of users who even know they exist. They're betting they can drive however many of us do use 3rd party apps back onto the 1st party one, and increase ad impressions at a time where social media advertisers are pulling away from Twitter.
Ad revenue going up would mean stock valuation increasing, and that bag they're grabbing getting bigger.
Once they go public, it won't matter. They'll have already cashed out. They'll be playing with somebody else's money then.
I see what their calculation with driving 3rd party users to 1st party is, but I really feel like it’s such a suit decision. 3rd party users tend to be power users, so driving even a fraction of them away disproportionately affects content. I think the loss of that content is going to outweigh the hypothetical gain of them looking at ads, because everybody agrees, 3rd party users are a tiny percentage of total users.
I don’t think this will kill Reddit. At least not lights out instantly. People are being hyperbolic. The kinds of people who scroll r/all won’t even notice. That page is repost bots and corporate and political propaganda, it won’t change. What I think will happen is the quality and amount of content on competitors, like Lemmy, will rise as displaced power users settle. If enough power users settle in one place to create critical mass, that creates competition.
Of course this discussion is like talking into the wind, as neither you or I have the ear of people making the choices at Reddit.
I don't intend on going back to Reddit. I'm tired of mega corporations thinking that they own my data.
Make sure you don't redirect all users to the same instance. One instance in particular is having too many users (see: https://lemmy.ml/post/1147770 )
People can find a server here: https://join-lemmy.org/instancesAgreed, but I think all instances linked there are going to see high load over the next while. We shall see how the network stands up...
I've been really enjoying beehaw so I definitely don't see myself leaving. However if reddit goes back on these changes I'll be happy just for my reddit widget if nothing else. Having a quick feed of gaming news on my phone home screen is something I've been so used to having. If the changes keep going I'll probably look into setting up some kind of widget with an rss feed or something.... Or make my own reddit widget with my own API key
This brings up a lot of points I hadn’t even thought of. Bots didn’t even cross my mind when I heard this news. Big yikes.
Mm, I'm a big fan of Decronym on Reddit, the bot that wanders around demystifying acronyms. There was a post by the bot's creator yesterday where they covered how many API calls it makes, and how there's been no clarity on whether there'll be a free tier of API usage etc.
It could shut down all the comment bots on the site.
RIP “I am a bot, beep boop.” 🪦
Thats a good image
Yeah, someone did a good job on that infographic
So.. not sure why entering an image doesn't use the Reddit link, but here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/140vubs/why_is_rvideos_shutting_down_on_june_12th_how/
I wish they didn't throw "think of the children" in there.
child sexual abuse rings, come on