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Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology

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Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

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[–] itsnotlupus 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

those people only cared about their position

probably not. This ain't Star Trek, we don't know how to disintegrate a community, beam it down, and reintegrate it in the same shape in a different place.

the fall of Reddit implies the demise of many communities that called it home.
maybe it's fine in the long run, new communities form elsewhere and some of the people in the former end up in the latter, but it the short to mid term, it's traumatic for anybody that was emotionally invested.

I see those open letters as last ditch attempts to preserve a status-quo where maybe people can pretend a little longer that everything's okay.

in the end, everybody's gonna grieve this differently. I don't think it makes them bad people.

[–] soupspoon 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think it makes them bad people, either, but this letter is so vague it sounds like begging.

[–] itsnotlupus 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, they just don't have a lot of leverage with Reddit in this struggle.

It's spez' sandbox, and it's our own fault for building sandcastles in it.

Some of them believed that their free labor was somehow irreplaceable or maybe just worth something, and that should mean they had some leverage, but Reddit's answer has been a resounding "lol no."

But that's the reason it's an open letter. Not to convince Reddit to stop being shitty, because they've been rather clear that they're committed to this, but to convince anyone else that Reddit is maybe not good, which might in turn impact whatever metrics they care about, and maybe finally provide some sliver of leverage.

I don't like their odds, but they're trying.