I see a lot of people saying let this happen. I acknowledge that reddit has also sort of lost their point but a lot of people have put countless hours into building stuff both on communities and as devs building apps like redreader and rif. I don’t want to see all of those people basically lose all their effort and work because a company decided to make money.
Reddit isnt going to get better and the admins/exec are just going to keep pushing policies like this because their primary motivation is to make money and they desperately want to hold a Reddit IPO.
The best options is for all those subs to export as much as they can to create a read only archive then head elsewhere where they control their own data.
Imho they should start migrating. Maybe not now or immediately, but gradually. Reddit has shown its hand. I don’t think they’ll go back to their roots in the foreseeable future.
Demonstrated by the other post I made in this thread, Reddit has been showing its hand for a very long time but the analogy of frogs in pans of boiling water comes to mind with the user base.
Reddit will never go back to its roots of being 3 guys at college with an idea for a site. It will always be the money craving corporate beast its evolved into.
It wasn’t a walled garden for a long time. There was a time when reddit codebase was opensource. So it isn’t fair to say these people should be blamed for using someone else’s walled garden.
I see a lot of people saying let this happen. I acknowledge that reddit has also sort of lost their point but a lot of people have put countless hours into building stuff both on communities and as devs building apps like redreader and rif. I don’t want to see all of those people basically lose all their effort and work because a company decided to make money.
Thats a sunk cost fallacy though.
Reddit isnt going to get better and the admins/exec are just going to keep pushing policies like this because their primary motivation is to make money and they desperately want to hold a Reddit IPO.
The best options is for all those subs to export as much as they can to create a read only archive then head elsewhere where they control their own data.
Imho they should start migrating. Maybe not now or immediately, but gradually. Reddit has shown its hand. I don’t think they’ll go back to their roots in the foreseeable future.
Demonstrated by the other post I made in this thread, Reddit has been showing its hand for a very long time but the analogy of frogs in pans of boiling water comes to mind with the user base.
Reddit will never go back to its roots of being 3 guys at college with an idea for a site. It will always be the money craving corporate beast its evolved into.
Once they decided to go public, it was all over. There was literally no saving it.
The risk of this happening is part of the deal when you play inside someone else’s walled garden. The same applies to devs of 3rd party apps.
It wasn’t a walled garden for a long time. There was a time when reddit codebase was opensource. So it isn’t fair to say these people should be blamed for using someone else’s walled garden.