Still, not what we want
Just pathetic.
Just as how Netlix tweeted “love is sharing a password” a couple years ago before fucking their subscribers with no lube, any confidence in reddit is gone. They professed different values than they demonstrate now.
They’re making insignificant carve outs FOR NOW to mitigate bad press and negative attention. Those will also go away in the name profit if Reddit survives this betrayal, maybe in a few months, maybe in a couple years, but the ground under which a sense of community formed is shattered irrevocably.
Why make content to profit a platform that openly disrespects and lies to its users, many many of whom provided free labor on the basis of that now erased sense of trust and respect?
And it will only get worse after the IPO, when activist investors insist on monetizing their shitty first party platforms even more.
Imo, we still shouldn’t go back if they rollback everything. Reddit is unreliable and Lemmy seems like a good alternative. I say we just try and get as many people over here instead. Not saying it’ll be easy or that’s anywhere near likely that it’ll be as big as Reddit but still.
The problem is that there isn’t an equivalent for any sub I use on Reddit.
Serious, like Politics?
Technical, like programming or SpaceX?
Pop culture, like MarvelStudios?
Games, like TheSilphRoad?
Pets, like goldenretrievers?
Found programmerhumor… But that’s it.
I don’t mean to offend, but I have a bunch of those in my block filter. You should be able to find spacex, etc, and some other communities that are ‘close enough’ for now. …or perhaps the communities are not federated to you ?
Also, if every 10 user kickstarts just ONE of the missing subs, then it won’t take long…