Casey NewtonJun 13, 2023
I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark
Reddit goes dark

As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it

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Show threadEpiphanic Synchronicity

@caseynewton The AMA would have gone infinitely better if he had just been blunt but honest, and simply said that this is about clawing back revenue because Reddit needs to start making money, and that he’s sorry but third-party devs never had an inalienable right to Reddit’s API.

People (including me) would still think it was wrong and unfair, but it would have blown over a lot faster and people would still have a modicum of grudging respect for him

Jun 13, 2023 at 12:34amWeb
Show threadGMLogginsJun 13, 2023

@EpiphanicSynchronicity @caseynewton
Yeah, honesty would have played better. Now we're left with a bunch of yammer where something doesn't track. I smell a cleanup prep to flog themselves to the LLMs for money (while claiming the opposite of course). Not to say the LLMs haven't already got there, but this prepping IPO by backstabbing the communities and the ecosystem so abruptly is vile.

On top of that, from a user standpoint the Reddit app is unusable. Since they won't let RiF live, and they're acting all sneaky, I deleted every post I ever made on my 10yr old personal account (took hours over the weekend), and on my 3 yr old professional account. Logged out and won't be going back. It's not nearly as jarring as the Twitter migration since I've been on Mastodon now since last December. Hopefully, kbin can spin up some more bandwidth to handle the load.

The act of jumping social media ship is getting easier.