We tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter They had to fall - to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
So long and thanks for all the fish, we’re all lemmings now.
We tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter They had to fall - to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter
So long and thanks for all the fish, we’re all lemmings now.
This is by design. They’ve got us arguing about the api price, when their goal was to kill off third party apps and get all users on their app so they can data mine us. And the ridiculous api price is a secondary bonus for them, since AI and LLM companies will gladly pay it to sick up the content on the platform.
And the sad part is that it seems like 99 % of Reddit’s population don’t care the slightest about that and are happily enjoying the ad- and telemetry infested piece of garbage Spez wants to shove down our throats.
They will also gradually turn away from the platform as the content quality deteriorates. But it’ll be a slow process.
Shades of slashdot and digg.
Yeah right now these changes will only result in highly invested and motivated users migrating away to other platforms like Lemmy. Then, after a lag… That will result in regular users noticing that the content and moderation and all the other important things that inform the experience at Reddit really suck compared to how it used to be and that those things seem to be a lot more appealing at those other platforms. Then we will see a larger migration. Probably sparked by some new user-hostile nonsense from Reddit’s management.