What, if anything, could Reddit do (other than rebuke their annihilation of third party apps) to regain your trust and consider going back to their platform?
I was an active user there for something like 16 or 17 years. I watched it grow up from when it was smaller than digg. It was my goto, a place where I felt at home, where there were great displays of cleverness and compassion. It has slowly decayed from its early greatness but pockets of it kept me going like tolkienfans and askhistorians. This latest thing feels like spez just took a shit on the entire concept of Reddit, declared war on it and I will never forgive him for that. He never understood the creation he participated in. You don’t own Reddit. You can only be its custodian. Reddit is not a place. Its a community. Now that community needs to be here, which is a good thing because clearly any corporate ownership of a community will only end badly.
Spez to step down and Reddit to charge reasonable rates for their API.
I understand that as a heavy Apollo user, I would not have generated any ad revenue for them. But I’d be happy to spend a few dollars a month to cover the costs.
But now that I’m getting used to Lemmy, I don’t want to give Reddit back any power they have lost. One man was able to ruin what was a world community.
11yr r*ddit refugee here.
Franky - nothing short of torching it and rebuilding it from scratch.
Firing Spez is the bare minimum, but there’s no guarantee that the successor won’t be another moron oinker. Federating won’t be profitable (not that R*ddit ever was) and there’s no way that they’ll be making every contributor a shareholder.
There’s no way I’ll be going back, the system will fail again because it’s predicated on a flawed ideology.
In no particular order:
- Remove API changes
- Remove u/Spez and his lovely executive board
- Make the site a non-profit project without ads, since most of the work is done by volunteers anyway
Oh, and for fucks sake: Remove that shit stain that is the official app from the universe.
Seconded,
Spez and the board are #1 on the list though. I said in a post on reddit the other day, if, in his own words, reddit “hasn’t been profitable for years,” then he and the rest of the board have absolutely zero business running the company!
Though I’m wary about the access to government assistance that non-profit status would open them up to… However, that does force them to be 100% transparent with their finances.
Seconded,
Spez and the board are #1 on the list though. I said in a post on reddit the other day, if, in his own words, reddit “hasn’t been profitable for years,” then he and the rest of the board have absolutely zero business running the company!
Though I’m wary about the access to government assistance that non-profit status would open them up to… However, that does force them to be 100% transparent with their finances.
Seconded,
Spez and the board are #1 on the list though. I said in a post on reddit the other day, if, in his own words, reddit “hasn’t been profitable for years,” then he and the rest of the board have absolutely zero business running the company!
Though I’m wary about the access to government assistance that non-profit status would open them up to… However, that does force them to be 100% transparent with their finances.
I don’t see myself going back. The remaining trust I had in the platform was burned by spez and the executives.
But setting that aside, what they could do is:
- Fire spez.
- Come up with a real plan for 3rd party apps with reasonable timelines and costs. (Really late for this though.) Provide 3rd parties access to polls and other parts of the platform that are currently missing from the API.
- Actually deliver on moderator tools that they’ve promised for 8 years.
- Allow the porn subs to have API access again.
- Kick out the hegetsus shit or at least let users block them like they used to be able to do.
The things you mentioned, along with an apology and reparation to 3rd party apps so that they reopened again would keep reddit as a competitor.
I unsubbed from 218 subs about a month ago because of how little I was actually enjoying there, but the last 10 or so would be worth a visit.
