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I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don't think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i'm not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

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[–] bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go back to being open source, become a non-profit.

Basically not gonna happen.

The profit motive will just recreate this same scenario no matter what they promise.

[–] Austin-Philp@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah - even if they back pedal (as I still think is likely) it's super clear at this point that reddit is just interested in milking it's users for every cent until they can IPO.

Spez literally just said in the AMA "We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive."

[–] bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is a complete lie. It's never enough for capitalists, they're never going to stop being profit driven.

[–] density@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

"good news, we have made a profit so now we can stop"