I guess Reddit has learned nothing. At least I have learned a lot in the last few days.
I feel like people there are focusing too much on the micro (Reddit kills Apollo), and too little on the macro (Reddit doesn’t care jack shit about its own users.)
Not caring about their users is why they’re killing 3rd party apps.
Bingo. Exactly.
And yet people are focusing on the effect ("they’re killing 3PA!), without looking at the cause (“they don’t care about their users”).
supposedly there’s going to be a permanent protest on June 30th if they don’t revert the API changes after this one, can’t wait to see what spez thinks then
It was pretty obvious that a 2 day protest wasn’t going to affect Reddit in any way possible. They know that this will pass. Their main user-base are the people who just view Reddit as just another social media app, and just consume content without ever participating in any community, will continue using Reddit normally. They’ll be confused about the whole situation, and once the subs are back online in 2 days, it would be like nothing has every happened. People who have been hurt are power users and mods.
What will really hurt is going dark indefinitely. Just put a complete stop. Half assed protests ain’t gonna get them to conclusions. So I think if the 8000+ subreddits that have been set to private or have restrictions, should go dark indefinitely.
I dunno, I don’t think this is going to stop tomorrow. It’s appearing that this might be a permanent schism for a good chunk of Reddit.
Most of the complaints and fears about moving to lemmy, for me, seem a lot easier than it was made out to be. Even though communities are divided across instances, it seems pretty easy to find them, and it seems pretty easy to discover new communities.
I’m not that smart myself, and I figured out how to get on here fairly quickly. Getting on is pretty much like signing up for a reddit account once you know some of the main instances.
I actually like how Lemmy works, and I find it way better than Reddit TBH. The whole idea of a fediverse sits well with me. Also there’s no nonsense stuff like karma or awards.
The lack of karma keeps things local. It prevents trolling by amassing low karma. And it prevents communities from gatekeeping by using karma too. All nice things!
Well I can’t speak for everyone else, but given I almost exclusively use Apollo for Reddit, ditching Apollo means ditching Reddit. Guess that means I’ll be part of that indefinite protest.
The question is will mods perm nuke comments before turning off their subs? Reddit will take over the subs if this continues post a few days. There is a lot of grief being given in the Apollo thread on Reddit to the dev who “organized this black out” while they don’t even use the app. There will be people who either don’t understand or are too ignorant to try. And Spez will not lose the site fully to people who hold their subs hostage. He’ll burn it down before he caves on the API issue.
Sucks if your ad is on a site that’s being protested though. I’d want a refund.
wow, hes off by almost an order of magnitude…
And I have a question… in spez’s letter shown on macrumors, he references “snoos”. I assume the “snoo” in this sub is a reference to that, but I’m pretty sure spez is not talking about the acronym reference in the side bar. What does it mean?
Snoo is the name of the little alien avatar that’s the… mascot? of reddit. I guess at corporate management encourage them to refer to each other as snoos. Sounds like typical corporate bs
Snoo is the name of the Reddit Alien.
I assume the “snoo” in this sub is a reference to that
“Snoo” is the alien logo. I chose it for this community because “snoocalypse” sounded better than “redditcalypse”. That’s it.
And also to poke fun at u/spez saying stuff like “we snoos”, even if nobody in that site calls oneself a “snoo”.
The other choices in my mind were c/nukethesnoo, c/dieredditdie, c/makeredditdie. I’d rather avoid “die” in the name because people might take it too literally, and I wanted something that rolled easy on the tongue. I could use also c/watchredditdie but I didn’t want to associate this community with the r/watchredditdie community in Reddit itself.
