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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the "noise" that has literally been keeping your site operating for completely FREE.

[–] BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really hoping he does see that Reddit is nothing without its users and treating them badly does have consequences.

It would be a nice lesson for all of these huge companies to learn.

[–] automator404@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The man just doesn't know when to stop so he doubles down lol

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bad thing is: the majority of users will continue Reddit in a few days as if nothing ever happened.

[–] weirdbeard@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not even a few days, people are over there celebrating the failure of the blackout already

[–] BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't get why people work against their own interests, people are just so weird

[–] Melon_Cooler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Convenience, short sightedness, and outright lies. Most won't directly be affected by Reddit's recent changes, so it's more convenient for them to just not care and continue using the site uninterrupted. For now, those money-hungry policies don't affect them much, so they'll just not care about it, until of course the ever growing hunger of capital requires more money, thus leading to more restrictive monetisation schemes (Twitter is considering limiting DMs without a subscription now, for example). And of course, you have people buying into the lies that that is the only way for sites like Reddit to exist, nevermind any alternatives (both to Reddit itself and within its monetisation plans).

[–] BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, I hadn't even heard about the Twitter DMs, that's really ridiculous.

And I think federated sites like Lemmy and kbin are the future of the internet, I mean, no ads, decentralized, and I mean we were already making all of the content on Reddit so it's not like we need them for anything when we have Lemmy.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, as far as I'm concerned, unless they forgo charging for API access, I'm not visiting Reddit again, apart from checking the save3rdpartyAPps subreddit. Bit ironic that the protest had been organized on Reddit.

[–] KBTR1066@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you're never going back. It's absurd to think that Reddit should just let 3rd Party apps have access to its API for free indefinitely. You wanna argue that the price should be sensible? Fine. You wanna argue that the way Reddit has rolled this out is reprehensible? Fine. But to argue that they HAVE to keep giving it away for free? Forever? That's just a ridiculous thing to expect.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It's actually not that absurd. For a social media site, users are content. Hence the relationship between third party apps and the site is inherently symbiotic. The app provides a better user experience, leading to more users for the site, hence more content.