Agreed.
Someone linked an article from 2019 about the fact that the investors wanted the same returns out of Reddit as in Facebook/instagram.
If Steve actually was "with" the users and Reddit as a platform he should have told them to eat shit.
I am quite sure it is the reason why Reddit is heading the way of Facebook/Insta/Tik tok etc.
And I have zero interest in being a part of it.
My eyes are screaming just looking at the new.reddit UI.
Sometimes it's good to be reminded what an abomination it actually is.
HA you cannot make this shit up.
Just give in to Reddit's ridiculous demands indeed.
This is just a start for them to charge even more down the line "cuz profits".
It will not be sustainable as an 3rd party app one way or the other.
They can also just revoke the access without blinking just because they would feel like it.
Free speech absolutists have nothing to do with free speech.
These just want to say what they want without having to bear the consequences.
The right to say what you want is a good thing. But in the end it doesn't mean that the other side should be accepting of the speech you deem free.
If one is spouting vitrol/hate/intolerance towards a group of people under the banner "free speech" then don't look up weird when the affected are not accepting of that speech you deem free.
For me the whole idea free speech is to express yourself how you want to (within what is reasonable, use your common sense) without the police and/or government knocking at your door.
At that point my boundary is at spewing or pushing for intolerance. I refuse to be be tolerant towards intolerance.
Good article and great insights.
I am a RIF refugee myself and only heard a bit about mastodon because I never took interest in twitter.
After the Reddit drama I heard about instances like these and federations themselves and it peaked my interest.
I tried a few options but I enjoy Kbin the most.
I am honestly done with the centralization of the information I consume and the enshittification of it. I'd rather take the leap of information possibly disappearing than to have it behind ridiculous paywalls and endless sponsored content.
Almost everything is being build in a shitty facebook/tik tok/insta clone based on monetization and it irritates me more and more.
I am just looking for a forum like experience with the information simple and dense on my screen (like RIF).
The fact that I can get that here is enough for me to stay.
Another thing is for the people who read this and may contemplate to return to Reddit; Reddit will bend you over again...and again..and again.
They need to see profits and they are willing to go scorched earth for it. This will never benefit you in their decisions but it will be of the benefit of the shareholders.
It made me stop buying games and consoles in the first place.
You have to be online, the game has to be downloaded on the system, there will be bugs and it has to be patched.
Just let me buy a game and play it. I may sound like an old fart but I really enjoyed the days that I could go to a store, buy a game and play it immediately on my console.
Especially the fact that bugs are literally shipped like features now and you just have to accept that your game of 80-90 dollars is ridden with bugs, yeah fuck off really.