| i have a theory. Remember many many years ago when reddit had that donate button and everyone was expected to complete it to 100% on a daily basis to make sure reddit had enough funds to host the whole thing? people around the world made sure, everyday that reddit could be up so that they themselves could enjoy it. along comes VC funding and a dream of IPO, afterall, if facebook, google, reddit and others could do it, why the heck not reddit. first they brought video and photos which astronomically increased hosting costs, then they started enshittifying their app with slow feature decay for third party apps. at this point, the playbook was set. reddit was to follow twitter who used the generosity of third party developers to make people get hooked to the "twitter" and then decided to dump them. today, only twitter app works. reddit wants that. reddit is claiming "costs" but if not for these third party apps, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR REDDIT TO EXIST. Its not like we have friends and family and sacred photos and memories there. Its memes and flame wars. here is my predictions, 1. any/all of reddit's TPA's will re-emerge with a lemmy/kbin backend and people will use it as they were earlier. 2. there will be slight issues with federation and searching for communities across fediverse but browse.feddit.de has already solved that bit pretty nicely so all they have to do is introduce that in the app in the search. 3. you can see, unlike mastodon that needs USERS, and hashtags, a community, say technology on lemmy.ml can be reached by anyone searching for technology on browse.feddit.de and the same people can reach other subs so it shouldn't be much difficult to restart from where they left on reddit. 4. if reddit thinks it can just shove the whole thing under the rug, well, these people leaving are NOT coming back, regardless of who they bring as new mods. The "TRUST" wont be there. |