canJun 18, 2023

People are starting to place bets on Reddit's civil war — Business Insider

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People are starting to place bets on Reddit's civil war — Business Insider - sh.itjust.works

>Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve Huffman, BetUS told Insider. >The online betting company said there was “very close heat” over whether Reddit will reverse its new pricing policy. >“So far, the betting public seems very much “at odds” and are undecided on this one so far,” it said. >Almost all bets have been on Huffman still being CEO by December 31, BetUS added.

Show threadWeirdmusic
To be honest, I've been dissatisfied with Reddit for quite a while now but just didn't realise it. Once I dipped my toes into the Fediverse I realised what it was I'd been missing: that sense of community that Reddit used to have before it became too big, too cold and too corporate. In my defence I used RIF for years and was shielded from the worst excesses of corporate culture. After setting myself up on Lemmy and getting a bit of a handle on what's what I'm really enjoying the sense of intimacy and DIY ethos. It's far more like the Reddit I used to know. It feels good to be back.
Jun 18, 2023 at 2:10amWeb
Show threadazurekbnJun 18, 2023
Same here. Had been using RIF for a long while as well and recently realized that it really was like a screen that managed to filter the worst of it if you knew how to customize your experience. Without that, there's no point anymore. The Fediverse has its own learning curve, but it will be worth it just to find the instance and comms I'll be most comfortable in.
Show threadzalackJun 18, 2023

Same. I've really been enjoying Kbin. More than I've enjoyed Reddit in years.

When Relay for Reddit goes down, that site is dead to me. If someone can make a Relay-quality app for Kbin it's game fucking over haha.

The only thing I'm going to miss is /r/askhistorians. What a great subreddit.

Show threadslicedcheesegremlinJun 18, 2023
I generally post in search of comments rather than upvotes, and I feel like Kbin/Lemmy are a lot better about that than Reddit. On Reddit, a post with only 50 upvotes is probably dead and will only get like 3 comments, meanwhile here it's easy to get a huge number of comments with even a comparably small number of votes.
Show threadBabaDudaJun 18, 2023
I suppose it helps that there's just not as much content so far, a 50 upvote post here is legitimately good engagement relative to the userbase, while on somewhere big like Reddit it's a drop in the ocean