The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about cur…

The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • @[email protected]English
    66•1 year ago

    I’ve barely been back to Reddit recently and with Apollo gone, I’ll only ever duck my head in when I really have to. I find it a lot easier to leave Reddit behind than Facebook. On FB I’m connected to real world relatives and friends who I just would lose contact with otherwise. On Reddit I converse with strangers and that’s easy to replace. Lemmy has already done it. Is there anything unique about the hobby forums on Reddit? No. They can be reassembled or restarted elsewhere. In some ways it’s probably good to dump the old structures and shake things up. Some subs were better managed and some really just coasted on their name.

    • @[email protected]English
      15•1 year ago

      I totally agree. I’m on Android and never used Apollo, but I’m using the wefwef web app and it’s fantastic. People are saying it feels like Apollo!

      • @[email protected]English
        10•1 year ago

        wefwef is changing my mind about how good webapps can be. The UI is a copy of Apollo but the execution in web tech is absolutely top notch.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      I was an early adopter of Reddit back during the digg days and I had over a decade of post history there and to see that go… I couldn’t care less. It was all ephemeral bullshit.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Same, I just miss some of the interest based communities I was in, but they’re growing well on Lemmy right now. Optimistic for the future.

      • LabototmizedEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        For real. Even though my groups on lemmy are smaller, they’re made up of more dedicated people that participate in discussion alot more. So it’s all great for me!

    • BearEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      The only thing that had me back on Reddit was searching for something on DDG and getting 99% Reddit results. I see why they are un-deleting people’s comments and posts when they close their accounts. Hopefully other forums take those spots.

      • rsknEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        That explains why I kept trying to purge my history and having some posts keep popping back up.

        • Dr. ZoidbergEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Get yourself banned. I don’t think they restore content of banned accounts.