I haven’t been to Reddit for a few days, I’ve also completely deleted my data and my profile from Reddit, and I don’t want to return.
Are we here to stay? Are you moving back to the Warframe subreddit? Are we moving elsewhere, like the official forum, for example?
Personally, I like Lemmy although I miss being able to use GIFs and directly upload videos, so I’m happy if we decide to stay here.
I can somewhat see where you’re coming from, but ultimately it’s the people that make the subreddits/communities, like you kinda indicate towards the end.
that doesn’t mean reddit hasn’t enabled these communities - they aren’t mutually exclusive. Marble takes an artist to make a sculpture, but the artist still needs the marble. And quite honestly the fact that reddit was able to amass such a large general audience has enabled other, more niche subreddits to benefit from this userbase. I.e. if you’re already on reddit for cute animal pics and you start playing warframe, naturally you’ll be more inclined to be a part of the warframe subreddit.
People love rising against evil cooperations these days. Some rightfully, some wrongly. I think in this case the uprising is misguided, and will have very little impact. In the meantime it will only hinder the community it’s supposed to serve
Why do you think reddit needs to be that marble? Do you remember what the internet was like before reddit, and how people found information before that?
Yep forsure, but reddit already exists and it a great platform to host these communities.
Well, it was, but the direction it’s been taking (even prior to the current API situation) has been chipping away at that.
The push to new Reddit, despite it still lacking in some elements compared to old Reddit has been going for awhile now. Plus more recently, shortly before this API stuff, they dove right into all the crypto/NFT hype, rapidly implementing features basically nobody was asking for, while neglecting addressing longstanding issues of new Reddit (e.g. its performance, bugginess, etc.). If anything the NFT crap is even more of a slap in the face to the whole Reddit community than the API decision, as it clearly demonstrates that they can relatively rapidly make changes to Reddit, but at this point only if it helps their bottom line.
Implementing changes that benefit hosting communities is at this point more of a secondary concern compared to those that increase revenues/profits, and that’s a takeaway that can be had even setting aside the API situation simply by looking at the overall direction up to that decision.