I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
I left Reddit. I came here and Discord.
I also don’t like Discord because of the leadership, close source, centralized, pushing nitro, not dealing with groomers and pushing age verification. I use matrix instead because it fixes those problem and it’s mostly the same.
I’ll check it out. I’ve not heard of matrix
Discord’s worse for open web, but it’s what people setup instead of learning how to run forums.