Hi all! What’s your opinion? Let’s pretend reddit would give in to the protest and cancel the plan to increase the API pricing. Would all of you go back to Reddit or stay on Lemmy?

I mean… what has been said by the CEO cannot be unsaid now. We all now know what we are in the eyes of the CEO.

  • ShortPants@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m sticking with Lemmy because it’s picking up all the people smart enough to figure out how to use Lemmy, leaving all the morons that were making Reddit shit to begin with on Reddit. Huge win for my sanity.

  • johndroid@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    If they gave in on day one or two, I may have stuck around.

    But as it stands, a week without Reddit has effectively broken my addiction. I’ve already uninstalled Sync from my phone, deleted my comments, and I only see Reddit pages when they show up as relevant search results.

    So they could reverse direction tomorrow and I would be indifferent at best.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    The chances of Reddit backing way off of their current path are about zero. At a certain level, it’s understandable: they’re a giant platform on the web, but they’re unprofitable - they’d like to actually make money, which I get. But their approaches and handling of it really leave me cold, and I’ve already been frustrated by the ever increasing amount of bot content.

    My guess is Reddit will do just fine for the foreseeable future. This “mass exodus” is really just a blip for them; the majority of users don’t care. But I’m enjoying it here, and I like the idea of helping a new, better discussion and aggregator site take hold. Maybe someday Lemmy will replace Reddit, or maybe something else will, but for now I’m just going to let Reddit be and enjoy the experience here.

    • copacetic
      2·
      2 years ago

      I also think Reddit is far from dead. The blackout will end and then Reddit still has many more users and thus much more content. That pull back people after a while.

      I just hope this boost for the Fediverse brought it to a sustainable level until the next Reddit scandal. Maybe the IPO or whatever.

  • nivenkos@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I won’t go back. This is the final step in a long journey of enshittification - the Conde Nast sale, proliferation of power mods, the new UI redesign, subreddit ban waves, the Ellen Pao and Aimee Knight incidents etc.

  • aetris@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    People will keep using Reddit until an easier alternative arises. Most people don’t care about any of the benefits the fediverse offers, they just want a service that’s easy to use and delivers content to them, that’s it.

  • MacDougal@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I would be on both. I’m assuming that CEO isn’t long for that position but we’ll see. Reddit survives though. It’s really a small mod protest with the majority of casual users not caring about it. However the scab mods that will end up being put in place will soon realize how hard this volunteer job is and may never know how the alt apps assisted so well with it. I think the best thing subs could do at this point is open up and let the spam fly TBH.