I myself am really on the fence about this.
I hate what Reddit has done, as I was removed as a moderator on my sub. But I much prefer the UI to Lemmy so far. I’m also having a hard time understanding how this all works. I was familiar with Reddit, and it is obviously a way more active community.
But I also used Apollo and hate how they’ve done him so dirty.
Will you guys return if Reddit rights it’s wrongs?
Short: No
Long: Theoretically yes, but they’d need to completely change leadership and also give up any notion of going public and instead transition to a non-profit. I dont think they can be working for the community while chasing profits. They have been trying to exploit users for profit rather than work with them.
That reddit could see me return, but at that point it’d be a very different situation and a very different reddit. I don’t think we’ll ever see it happen.
I have exactly the same thoughts. Hell no, and then a maybe combined with a long list of conditions that are as realistic as the API usage prices Reddit expects 3rd party devs to pay for.
That being said, the gross chasing of profits is the problem. A company desiring compensation or a growth model isn’t a bad thing.
It absolutely is bad when you are expecting insane amounts of money for way beyond what is a fair and justifiable price for everyone. They should be able to grow BUT what they are doing has gone around 29x farther than it should have