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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it's surprising how many people will do things for free if you delude them into thinking they have power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

sad seeing how many of them folded straight away

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess laziness and habit will lead to passiveness and desire to stick with the safety of "proven solutions". The decisions of the mods would not matter if the normal users started leaving en mass. Sadly this would not happen, or maybe it's a blessing in disguise, lemmy and kbin are much more reminiscent of the old Internet for me, which is something that I have missed.

The important thing is that we are here, I really hope everyone of us will do their best to make of the fediverse something better, compated to the platforms of the big, greedy corporations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Makes me wonder what they are getting out of it. I mean if it is just volunteer work, the job goes to shit, the company you are volunteering your time with threatens you, why not drop it and take it to another platform where you would be appreciated.

Maybe they have a good reason to cave. But I can’t see it and my naivety just makes me think they are getting kickbacks somewhere somehow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know what? Options exist, alternatives have been literally plastered everywhere on reddit since one week before the blackout began. And everything the CEO has done since then very clearly shows he considers us shit.

Some people don't care? They're eager to be treated like that? They probably deserve to stay on reddit, it's up to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So we’ll take the protest to the comments? Who’s gonna mod if they kick out the mods?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those fuckers are undeleting my comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because I deleted all my comments and logged in and my coments are coming back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not delete your account? Heck link it to your email, use a VPN to show as being in Europe and tell them to delete all info related to your account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

GDPR FTW. It's a real and powerful tool to protect people from companies. Use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mod a smaller sub and haven't received this, seems like they're negotiating with the biggest subs/mods only. I haven't gotten a single communication from Reddit about this outside of what's publicly posted or in the news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't like many things about reddit.

Having said that - this article is bullshit. Let me draw you a picture. You run a company that has a product. You give the users of your product a lot of freedom. That is naive, wishful thinking, goodwill, whatever. Your users start having an issue with the direction of the company. Your users start sabotaging your company. You find yourself between a rock and a hard place.

No matter what you do or do not do - bullshit articles like this will pop up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't agree. Reddit didn't need to make their API costs hundreds of times greater than it actually costs them. If they made them reasonable, both sides could have profited. Apps would still live and Reddit would still earn money from the users using those apps.

Another thing, the whole point of Reddit is that you're giving the users a lot of freedom. The concept doesn't even work if you don't do that. Reddit can't moderate all of the subreddits themselves, there are thousands upon thousands of mods doing it for free. Reddit can't take on that job, it would cost so much they would be bleeding money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as the other comment - irrelevant. This article is not about API pricing. Not about the blackout. It's about reddit trying to save whatever ruin there's left.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you wanna focus on that part then the second part of my comment still stands. Reddit can't survive without the work of unpaid moderators and saying that it was a mistake to give the users freedom is kinda stupid. The whole point of Reddit is that users have freedom, remove that and Reddit doesn't work anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not having the ability to have a private subreddit would affect very little for the absolute majority of users. Actually - what is even the point of a private subreddit? Private messaging has existed forever.

Anyway, I digress. This article feels to have been spawned into existence purely because the authors had nothing better to do with their lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Switch users to creators of said product and it is not bullshit at all. Reddit is only what it is due to the users contributions. The site itself is nothing but a medium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The rest of the world differentiates pricing based on type of usage, one thing is users/small devs, a totally different thing is corporate usage (AI scraping in this case).

It would have been more than enough for reddit to do the same and noone would have objected.

It's reddit who put themselves "between a rock and a hard place" by managing this in the most ridiculously stupid way possible, not the users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, this isn't simply about making and selling a widgit or service. It's an interesting other in which the vast majority of the product and service is created and run by the same users. Reddit just creates a space but people don't really care about the space generally. They care about what happens in the space that the users create and moderate. The users can just find another hangout which could eliminate the need for the space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd argue it is exactly that - the space to post whatever floats your boat is the service they're selling. There are also a bunch of other transactions where you're the product, but that's not the point here.

Which is why I've switched to Lemmy. I'm under to illusion Reddit owes me or the moderators anything. Nobody from Reddit had ever forced anyone to moderate anything.

I've loved their service; I don't anymore - hence I'm here.