What, if anything, could Reddit do (other than rebuke their annihilation of third party apps) to regain your trust and consider going back to their platform?
I think they made their bed, and I’m fully okay with them sleeping in it.
Even if they roll back everything and I’d be the only one not sleeping in it with them, I’d pass.
I’ve noticed this change has also been good for my overall mental health.
I didn’t even notice it was dragging my mental health to shit I’m really glad the horny state of mind is not really a thing here! And I’m really happy this has proper nsfw filtering!
I would say I wouldn’t go back.
But realistically if no alternative becomes big enough, eventually with time people will start going back, and so would I.
I mainly used reddit for specific things and not much as a general time waster, so in the long term I’ll have no choice if it stays as the main community for those things
Replace the CEO
Free api -> Rif works again.
My list of demands in short
Honestly, I’d go back if the API pricing was reasonable and Apollo was revived. I’m quite fickle really!
Spez to step down and Reddit to charge reasonable rates for their API.
I understand that as a heavy Apollo user, I would not have generated any ad revenue for them. But I’d be happy to spend a few dollars a month to cover the costs.
But now that I’m getting used to Lemmy, I don’t want to give Reddit back any power they have lost. One man was able to ruin what was a world community.
Immediate transfer of ownership to the workers.
At this point, there is nothing they can do. Even reverting all the changes will never undo the damage Steve caused.
Pretty much. At this point I wouldn’t go back. I’m excited for a change anyways.
Trust is pretty much impossible to earn, particularly after acting awful to the app developers. All the lies to and about the Apollo dev, the impossible deadlines, the high pricing. It’s clear they just wanted to fuck them over.
Worst thing is, if they wanted the money, they could easily have asked for Gold for using 3rd party apps with your account, and developers would see no change, and 3rd party app users could choose if they wanted to go to main app for free or stick with better options.
But now they burned all the bridges.
I don’t think there is anything. They’ve shown their true colours over the past few weeks and it has not been a pretty sight.
I see little point in wasting more of my time on something so toxic.
I don’t see myself going back. The remaining trust I had in the platform was burned by spez and the executives.
But setting that aside, what they could do is:
- Fire spez.
- Come up with a real plan for 3rd party apps with reasonable timelines and costs. (Really late for this though.) Provide 3rd parties access to polls and other parts of the platform that are currently missing from the API.
- Actually deliver on moderator tools that they’ve promised for 8 years.
- Allow the porn subs to have API access again.
- Kick out the hegetsus shit or at least let users block them like they used to be able to do.
The things you mentioned, along with an apology and reparation to 3rd party apps so that they reopened again would keep reddit as a competitor.
I unsubbed from 218 subs about a month ago because of how little I was actually enjoying there, but the last 10 or so would be worth a visit.
Spez to step down and Reddit to charge reasonable rates for their API.
I understand that as a heavy Apollo user, I would not have generated any ad revenue for them. But I’d be happy to spend a few dollars a month to cover the costs.
But now that I’m getting used to Lemmy, I don’t want to give Reddit back any power they have lost. One man was able to ruin what was a world community.
i don’t think there is anything that would get me back on their platform. the way they treated the people who helped make them a success was disgusting
Remove the current board, spez, and pretty much every executive. Roll back the decision, issue an apology to all users, undo the bans issued to protesting accounts (except awkward turtle), and kiss my hairy ass.
11yr r*ddit refugee here.
Franky - nothing short of torching it and rebuilding it from scratch.
Firing Spez is the bare minimum, but there’s no guarantee that the successor won’t be another moron oinker. Federating won’t be profitable (not that R*ddit ever was) and there’s no way that they’ll be making every contributor a shareholder.
There’s no way I’ll be going back, the system will fail again because it’s predicated on a flawed ideology.
I was an active user there for something like 16 or 17 years. I watched it grow up from when it was smaller than digg. It was my goto, a place where I felt at home, where there were great displays of cleverness and compassion. It has slowly decayed from its early greatness but pockets of it kept me going like tolkienfans and askhistorians. This latest thing feels like spez just took a shit on the entire concept of Reddit, declared war on it and I will never forgive him for that. He never understood the creation he participated in. You don’t own Reddit. You can only be its custodian. Reddit is not a place. Its a community. Now that community needs to be here, which is a good thing because clearly any corporate ownership of a community will only end badly.
