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Reddit's meltdown
Anything in particular happened over there?
To make a long story short... Reddit's doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit's CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy
Gotcha. I'm generally aware of what's going on over there but wasn't sure if a particular post or action caused the big surge today.
What caused me to just delete the app and my account is the post by the Apollo creator today. When you see it all put together, it's really shameful how poorly the community, moderators, and devs are treated. It was a huge post and on popular
It's there a screenshot or something? I've done good about not logging in...
Here's the archived version if you don't want to go there: https://archive.is/AxBTl
Thanks!
It’s a very long image, so I’m not sure how readable it’ll be, but I used Apollo’s awesome “share as image” feature to do this (hoping it’ll be implemented in one of the Lemmy iOS apps soon).
I've created a pastebin as well so feel free to read either. Thank you to the person who did the giant screenshot!
https://pastebin.com/a4bZd1DK
Too long, it's a bit of an essay. Interesting read though.
Yeah that poor Apollo dev who was making half a million dollars a year for 10 years. Won’t someone think of the little guy for once?
May also have to do with reddit users wondering why all their favorite subs are now full of pictures of John Oliver and Wales (which are newer acts of protest).
Tasteful pictures, mind you
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/
Maybe this helped?
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