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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.
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.
Definitely agree. I am using both now and I hope as more communities make their way here I can reduce how much I use reddit because it's full of rage bait for me.
I'm just not wanting to wish it go dead and have a lot of people lose access to something they really cared about.
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.
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.
Sure, as it's evident from us interacting here I've been trying to move on the alternatives, though nothing has sprung upto replace niche subreddits that I used to browse.
Ultimately my point was not that what reddit was doing was right. It was that it is easy to take joy in a company that has let greed take over try to fail but in doing so don't forget to have some empathy for countless volunteers who put in time and effort to build something worthwhile. It's their stuff that's being burnt too.
I take no pleasure in what the impact is going to be with numerous communities but I will admit that I'm gleefully rubbing my hands watching the admins make a complete pigs ear of yet another situation.
My comment was more about just how many times will people get shitted on by the admins (Ive commented elsewhere just some of the awful and horrific situations they have caused or failed to act upon) before they realise that the admins are going to repeatedly carry out the same kind of behaviours and it is not the best place for them.
Its long overdue time to gather what they can carry and abandon ship.
I can't imagine what a loss it will be if many of the niche communities die on reddit and aren't reborn on other platforms. Right now it looks like some of my favourite ones are going that way.
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.