“It’s time we grow up,” says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

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    At this point this seems intentional. This has definitely pushed me away from Reddit and I’m already seeing a lot more meaningful conversations on Lemmy. All I ever saw on Reddit anyways is people just trying to one up each other on the comment threads for upvotes. Took a lot of scrolling to even get to people actually talking about the topic.

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      Agree it’s intentional. Normies don’t care about any of this and will just follow the memes. Most of us here are the users that had ad blockers and probably didn’t care about giving gold.

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        Giving and receiving gold was surprisingly, one of my least favourite things. Someone gave me gold once and i felt beholden to say thank you? I didnt ask for it, i didnt comment in hopes of getting given “gold”. I never gave anyone else gold. Why would i give a shit about getting it myself? Its a fucking forum.

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          Reactions are common in lots of forums though, gold is just a special reaction.
          A special upvote if you will, its not really that deep.

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    I just commented on another similar article! His reasoning for this move contradicts itself! How can he claim that the overwhelming majority of users (97%) use the official Reddit app, but the use of 3rd party apps is destroying their bottom line? That means that that the lost profit from 3% of users are the reason for the API price change?

    And… if there are only 4-5 big 3rd party apps (like Apollo, RIF), why force them out of the market? If only 3% of users use them, are they really that big of a deal? Why are the prices so astronomically high?

    This is Reddit consolidating their empire. I hope that folks are prepared for future roll-outs of new subscriptions and reasons that Reddit users need to pay.

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      I’m honestly shocked the redditors are so blind to this. Do they actually think it’ll just be plain sailing from here on out?

      Maybe in just to old skool and remember a time when Reddit would have really stood up.

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        It absolutely will not be plain sailing - I think that the protest is an early warning sign. People that stick to Reddit are going to be bombarded with ads, Premium features, and new programs after Reddit goes public.

        I am an Apollo user until the end - I think that after having such a good experience under Christian, I forgot how scummy a big corporation can be. Times are changing - we just saw some similar things with Musk taking over twitter.

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          Well I had hoped, naiively that Reddit would respect the developer community that had helped make their website so popular. A community of developers provided apps and services for them for the simple price of a free API. I thought the APIpocolypse might happen, but I thought reddit was special somehow and they would see how beautiful and vibrant that community was and not damage it for fear of damaging the soul of the website. Yeah, that was pretty fucking naiive.

          Ah well, I’ll put my energy into Lemmy and Fediverse projects instead.

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            Ah well, I’ll put my energy into Lemmy and Fediverse projects instead.

            I think this is a better place than Reddit already. It’s fairly new and people are excited about creating content. But I think in reality, sooner or later every sub will be forced to open, and everything will go back to normal. Of course some of the users would’ve completely migrated to the Fediverse or other platforms, and it’s up to us whether the Fediverse survives or not.

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        Reddit felt like it was going downhill for a long time. I think I just started scrolling it out of habit, only participating in a few subs for hobbies and games. This shitshow was the kick in the ass I needed to shreddit and delete my account.

        Also. I think more users need to do that. Make sure you shreddit your comments and posts so reddit can’t keep your content.

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          It’s been pretty bad for a while now.

          I used to go to reddit to learn something new, to see the news for the day, to find a cool new hobby or interest, to read deep discussions about topics that I didn’t know that much about.

          But that was like 8 or 9 years ago.

          Lately the entire front page is doom bait, vaguely disguised racism, political trolling, violence, memes, and reposts.

          I used to browse /r/all about half of the time and my subscribed subs the other half.

          I muted serial reposters / content farmers whenever I noticed them, but this past year I hit a breaking point and I changed my default feed to subs only and intentionally chose to avoid /r/all.

          Sucks that I’m going to lose my niche communities on reddit, but I’ve been a lot happier here so far.

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          A switch flipped somewhere to whenever i logged onto reddit I would leave feeling worse. It’s for the best that I stopped using it i think

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        Reddit got so big it’s now the default, the masses are always looking for the simple default option.

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          Yeah it’s the convenience of use. Fediverse right now is not convenient to use IMO. Most of the people here are somewhat tech savvy and even then many people did face issue of creating an account and were confused about how the whole thing works. Now try explaining all that to a person that just uses Reddit like the company intends them to.

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      It makes so little sense to me. They could have charged a reasonable amount and made some money off of the apps, but instead, they chose to kill them and lose their users. Some might migrate to the official app, but this uproar may have caused even more to leave the platform entirely.

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    I’m actually somewhat happy all this happened now. I’m sad for the 3rd party app devs and everyone who suffers from these decisions. And for the wonderful communities and knowledge bases that were shattered.

    But I think it caused me, and many others, to realize that great community and discussions could still be had on the internet, and that we hadn’t been having those for quite a while over on reddit.

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      There’s a lot of value in smaller scale too. Not everything needs to be mega-platform level for the mass market. We can have great communities in smaller spaces online too — sometimes even better as a result.

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        Some of my favorite places on the internet are smaller communities that still run webforums.

        It’s great. There’s people I’ve been talking to and friends with for fifteen years on there.

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      I’m hoping the app developers move to Lemmy. I’d happily pay monthly for Sync, and he could spin up his own server and the fee would cover those costs as well. I’m sure many people would do the same for their favorite apps.

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      It’s been boosting discovery of fediverse and causing an explosion of both traffic and hopefully donations.

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    Sentence 1: Really, only 3 percent of users are pissed about this; It’s insignificant.

    Sentence 2: These disruptions from 3rd party app supporters really hurt our bottom line. This is expensive!

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      As CEO, I always like to go online and tell the whole world “we’re not profitable” right before my IPO. Big brain stuff, ya know.

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      I think this is exactly why. It’s to make sure that Reddit is “shored up” from any profits leaking out, and making sure that NSFW content is locked down so that investors actually invest.

      It sucks because it’s our posts, our comments, our information that makes Reddit what it is. This is simply preparation for advertising and other for-profit opportunities. Greedy.

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    This is why the fediverse is so great. It really is really expensive to run a social media company. By spreading the cost over many actors and encouraging competition, this allows us to host content without being beholden to billionares.

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          I am asking this in full earnestness: is any critique of the Chinese government assumed to be rooted in xenophobia?

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              I feel that maybe you’re reading my question as ‘critique of China is inherently support for the west/US/etc’ which I absolutely do not mean. I think that it’s possible that painting all critique with a broad ‘xenophobia’ brush (while undoubtedly warranted at times) can prevent discussion in good faith.

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          I think he’s referring to how Reddit used to operate on Tencent funding.
          Tencent is partially owned by the Chinese government.

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          It’s well known and accepted that the Chinese government has significant control of Chinese companies, and Reddit is partially owned by Tencent. That’s not xenophobic.

          The fact that it’s something like a 5% stake is more relevant.

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      really went off the rails there lol. I could tell when you mentioned Snowden/Assange.

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        you don’t think it’s nuts for snowden critics to mod privacy subreddits when snowden is the guy behind the main leak that showed how fucked our privacy is?

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      What it is Spez? How can people who use third party apps simultaneously be only 3% of the user base (I realize you proved he’s wrong) and significant enough to ruin Reddit’s profitability? Cause if you’re going public and only three percent of your users can ruin Reddit’s profitability you’re in for a rough ride. Investors don’t like too much risk.

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    All the numbers don’t add up. He says only 3 % of users use apps but then also there is a significant cost to not serve that 3 % ads? They also only make pennies per user. They must count any hit from Google as a user or something wild to boost their numbers.

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    1. Fine, let the people who apparently have no concept of foresight turn Reddit into a cesspool.

    2. This is clearly about cashing in on machine learning at the expense of your users. Maybe you should self reflect a bit before your entire website is produced and consumed entirely by machine learning.

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    “We’re 18 years old,” Huffman said. “I think it’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company.”

    Who the hell is this even directed to?