They took my RiF. The CEO seems like an absolute bastard. It got more and more toxic over the years. I can take some abuse but this was a bit too much. If it continues to be popular I’ll use it for information gathering just like always, but they wont get any content, interaction or ad revenue from me.
This blackout thing, while surely sending a message, will be pointless in the end imo. The bosses have decided how they want to proceed and that’s that.
The CEO is an absolute bastard. He’s twisted the words of his “friend” Aaron Swartz, the real founder of the site, and bastardised his creation while trashing his legacy.
The blackout isn’t pointless, it’s just not yet enough. Reddit needs to die, and the blackout is a step towards that. It started as a way to try and get admin to change, and in that respect it has and will fail, but it is the first step to reddit going the way of digg.
It ain’t pointless. The message is what get me here at lemmy.
Yeah. I meant pointless in the sense of “we as the reddit community want to change the companies business strategy shortly before an IPO”.
You being brought here (same as me) through the backlash-posts is great. But unless certain highly frequented subs go dark PERMANENTLY I dont see much that could sway the reddit leadership towards a more community friendly approach.
@starrox
The point to be taken here is that you can NEVER trust for profit companies because its just a matter of time before they turn evil…and during that time, you’ve wasted years of effort. Time to build something new!
@lowleveldata
Louis Rossmann really made some great points that a 2 day blackout doesn’t mean anything in his recent video. People need to understand that it won’t hurt Reddit at all of subreddits just start functioning normally after 2 days.
at least it gave Lemmy the kick it needed, and the quantity and quality of posts will simply never be the same. Also Reddit, FUCK YOUR REDESIGN AND FUCK YOUR APP. Javascript bloat that doesn’t respect you.
Boost app stops working -> I delete Boost and never use Reddit again.
It’s simple
My whole Reddit experience was Apollo, even on desktop after the release for M1 Macs.
So they’re not killing just an app to connect with Reddit, they’re killing the Reddit experience (at least for me).
I’ve stopped using Reddit web years ago, I installed the official Reddit app last month and uninstalled it after 5 minutes because it felt like a piece of shit.
I will stick with lemmy and even think about starting to create content.
I feel all that is about to change
I won’t forget. It’s good to be somewhere new. Perhaps the fediverse is more resistant to profit-driven enshitification
As an Apollo user I can at least say I won’t forget
Maybe not, look at lemmy activity numbers. Those people all won’t forget.
It’s the 1% who create all the content that matter on any website, and those are the redditors using 3rd party apps.
