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Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website (www.huffpost.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...

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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (17 children)

In my opinion even if he changes his mind and tries to backtrack, the damage is done, for sure.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They've already shown their hand, so why should anyone trust them again even if they did backtrack? They've proven they don't care about us and are willing to go back on their words if it benefits them. I don't see any restoration of community faith in Reddit's administration.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Because 90% of their users don't care about APIs or 3rd party apps, they just want the content however reddit makes them consume it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This is correct. Most people I've spoken with are still willing to stick it out with reddit. The communities don't really exist elsewhere, and it's fun to scroll through a big thread with 1k comments sometimes. Something like r/NBA can't just pop up here or anywhere else. RSS + Lemmy is what I'm trying for the time being so we will see.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Yeah. There's no backtracking now. The reputation is tainted.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    For us that are making the switch. Unfortunately too many fishes these days.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Reddit has been crappy for years now, and a lot of people have wanted to leave but didn't have anywhere to go. Now that there's somewhere else, people will continue to trickle out as they get tired of it. It doesn't need to all happen at once -- in fact, reddit doesn't need to shut down. It just needs viable alternatives with a critical community mass, and we're there now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    and we’re there now.

    And, just thing- give it a few months (and a lot more contributors / developers...) and this platform can become REAL competition for reddit.

    As I see it currently though, there are a lot of unresolved issues before it becomes more mainstream. But, hey, I have posted here almost exclusively today, other then telling a few redditors about lemmy,.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's a private subreddit I'm a member of that I'll probably stick around for a while on. It's one where they kick people out if they don't participate for a week, so I'll have an interesting sample of how many active redditors are leaving.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    What he didn't bank on is a lot of power users were already getting sick of wading through ads and dealing with mass idiocy. I mean, mass idiocy will move with the masses, you can't really get away from it. But add a power-hungry megalomaniac to the mix of an already irritated user base, and it's not pretty. Frankly, Reddit can keep the kind of users who are willing to stay there. Hopefully that will keep other communities cleaner.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I'm not going back unless all this is undone and spez is removed, and rif comes back. But even then, but it won't be like before. I'll never participate like I did. I deleted rif on the 11th in anticipation of the shuttering.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    For sure. Spez would need to resign for me to recover any trust with reddit.

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