This guy seems like he is just burning things down because he is frustrated that they exist successfully on their own using the same resources he has, while he cannot. Usually corporations burn their trust as a short-sighted scheme to make a bunch of money quickly (reputable brand cuts so many costs the reputation is lost, etc) and this is tragic, but at least they got something out of it. All he is doing is acting unhinged and destructive - with both community trust/relations and the corporation itself being used in ways that can not be turned around. Huffman has been unable to monetize reddit and he isn't presenting any way to. If they really care about making a profit, why not offer something of value and charge for it, like the 3rd party apps do? You don't win customers by making something shitty and then removing all of their options and then not even have a plan in place to make money with the shitty alternative. This is on top of using reasoning that is not only dubious, but contradictory. He then discounts any concerns over his handling of the situation and doubles down on libelous claims that were proven false. When the dev made the situation public (with a 'go ahead' from reddit) then Huffman appears to have taken it personally, and instead of engaging with the community concerns about lack of options for mobile moderators, went on a tantrum. Negotiations then proceeded in bad faith, with reddit never intending to allow them to pay the price asked (no methods existed to even make this transaction possible with a 30 day deadline, and other app creators were ignored completely when approaching reddit sales). The issue is that assurances were given that the transition would be reasonable but pricing withheld until the last minute. The issue is not that they are charging for API access. You are missing the forest for the trees here. Like, the moment someone makes a third party app for Reddit, Twitter, Snapchat, or anything else, they are on an expiry meter. I find sharecropping on someone else's product a perilous path that eventually comes up snake-eyes. > don't care about the API issue, despite being a professional dev. The blackout thing didn't work because most people don't care, so some people have stomped their feet and effectively started trying to vandalize the site and I think it's achieving absolutely nothing. I don't care about the API issue, despite being a professional dev. Though of course what you probably intend to convey is that people who find the blackout annoying can be dismissed because they're just those weird cat picture people - they just don't understand the importance like you do, and thus don't count - and is a perfect example of my point. It's an extreme example of someone arguing both sides. You argue the critical importance of Reddit - equivocating it with legislative bodies (which I find fantastically ridiculous, as an aside) - but then you also dismiss people annoyed by the blackout as missing out on only cat pictures. I'll be forced to make decisions on what topics matter to me and how I'll consume them instead of blindly marching through reddit on another doomscroll because it was convenient. Loosening my Reddit addiction will be healthy long term. I still see it perhaps as a positive for myself. I'll keep Imgur for lazy image humor, and probably nod to reddit for catching the beat on my local community/provincial subs. I think there'll be plenty of opportunity to drop my reddit habits as I find moderately active NetSec/Programming/Networking/etc. I'm okay with that because I found most value in smaller niche communities (similar to how HackerNews scratches an itch that Reddit never could). Lemmy/kbin/etc likely will never be reddit. Perhaps 'the best' will make its rounds through all sites as reposts just as 9Gag stuff and Imgur stuff finds its way to Reddit or Twitter, or TikTok.īut back to the main point. Reddit will probably just simply be the best you have. We're sort of in a new frontiers phase where people are scrambling to find new homes and there'll be a lot of duplication until winners and losers are settled.īut in the end, if good memes come out of the most populous place. Similar to how some subreddits overtook others in popularity, there'll be a federated instance that "wins". If you want low effort jokes, or memes, the most likely outcome is you're going to migrate to where the most people are. I think one looking for alternatives needs to understand what they're hoping to gain from other resources.
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