Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses and will close before pricing goes into effect.
Spez you fucking moron it's "RIF is Fun" because YOU threatened to sue them for using the word "Reddit" in their name.
Hate when people give my stupid fucking website free advertising and make it easier for millions of people to use it, hate that shit so much
Lmao. They're doubling down on attacking Christian, the Apollo app developer, for bizzare and untrue reasons. They're just mad Christian recorded their conversation and debunked their lies.
I don't think Reddit realizes the popularity dynamic here. People love Apollo, it's a nice clean app that does exactly what you want to the point where top-level Apple executives will even call it out, but people only tolerate Reddit.
Yeah Apple would rather put Apollo on their presentations than the official Reddit app. That must sting for Reddit.
I would pay to see reddit collapsing and shutting down just before it's IPO.
Reddit Digg'ing itself when on the verge of cashing out would indeed be very funny.
Digg still exists. If Digg has more users than reddit in 5 years I will laugh to death
Digg sorta exists, too bad it's just curated stuff and has no social features.
Digg flipping the OG Digg switch as Reddit implodes: :party-sicko:
Reddit is not going anywhere. People are going to huffle and puffle but everyone will continue using itq.
No they'll leave and come here and we wipl make them communists, have revolutions, and be friends
mfw the redditors start asking what the .ml in lemmy.ml stands for :lenin-shining:
People love this comparison, but the internet landscape today is totally different than when digg 4.0 happened. Back then stumbleupon was competing with digg, if that helps to contextualize it.
If they drop old.reddit.com then it would be, but I stand by the statement that the landscape has changed. Yes people will leave (like me), but it won't impact their overall user base numbers. I think this is a stupid move as a user, but if I was a reddit shareholder I wouldn't be criticizing spez just yet.
I agree with you. Look at Facebook and Twitter. We all acknowledge that they're shitholes, but they're also still incredibly popular. Twitter might die eventually, just because Musk is uniquely stupid, but I don't think anything about the reddit situation will end with advertisers pulling out.
Steve aka u/spez aka aspiring slave owner and practicing pedophile.
I know he fancies himself a warlord after the apocalypse, but what's up with the second thing? Haven't heard that.
Reddit gave the moderator of r/jailbait the mod of the month award if I remember correctly.
I think it was in the Anderson Cooper expose of Reddit, as far as I know it's true. The moderators of that disgusting place got official Reddit moderation awards.
CW: everything
https://youtu.be/ks8xuYRPnWM
They literally gave him a gold plated Reddit alien Jesus Christ
no. probably a frequent visitor to the sub, but he didn't officially have anything to do with it.
but yeah as others have pointed out the guy who did make the sub was very cozy with the reddit admins
Ironically, all this is because people don't want a shitty Reddit experience on their phones. They want to use apps that actually allow them to moderate and view stuff properly.
Mobile browser used to work fine until they decided at least 1 third of your screen should be covered with ads at all times telling you to use the app that nobody likes
for those of who won't click on this what does the aspiring slave master have to say
What a fucking dumbass lol. How do children like this become a CEO?
Uhh yea, next you'll tell me Elon Musk is the richest man in the world or something. And that world leaders everywhere are ancient.
by murdering the cool co-founder and making it look like a suicide
I’m glad Reddit is officially abandoning its founding values of libertarian freeDUM of speech that made it popular and embracing the science. :soy-cutie:
:reddit-logo: denazified
Fuck Aaron Swartz! Fuck Julian Assange! Love CIA!
Lol literally nothing
there's like 20k user comments vs 24 spez/admins comments, they all dipped hours ago.
i've been weaning off :reddit-logo: ever since they banned the chapo sub and this place started coming together. i mostly look at picture subs like corgis and other lighthearted funny stuff. i never look at it on a desktop. only ever on my phone, and only using RIF because rif is easy, tidy and not shit from a butt like their in-house interfaces. i'm not a mod or a power user, and those people are all saying the 3rd party apps are vital for what they do in service to their communities.
there is no chance i continue using it after RIF goes offline at the end of the month, and probably not after the 12th when it seems like every sub i follow has announced they are going dark until reddit corrects this.
i know it's naive to think an online platform of this size can fail, but it does happen and when it does it's in stages, like an old tree entering a mortality spiral. this won't kill reddit, but i think this is going to be a very significant "shit the bed and roll around in it" moment in the timeline of the platform.
in the most casual/non-tech, highly specific, goofy little time wasting subs of people showing cats making airplane ears, people were already discussing the organizing a move to lemmy so they have something to do on the "go dark" date. when i saw that in multiple casual places earlier today, it gave me the impression this is significant.
also, it would be hilarious if shitty spez fucked up so bad that the investors sued him and the corporate entity imploded like a dying neutron star. a down round. a funding clawback. a little fraud indictment, as a treat.
fr. the day this place federates with lemmy and feeds me nonstop cute animal slop, will be the day i no longer look at reddit.
I was pretty much only using :reddit-logo: to track the local covid stats, but since :biden-the-thing: said :mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2: and stopped tracking numbers I have no reason to go back there, except maybe /r/blackepsteinfeed
For nearly a month now the NYT hasn't updated their covid tracker. It just has a warning that says the way they're displaying data is going to change due to changes in reporting. Shit's so frustrating, there's basically no source anymore. Pretty sure last time I checked, my area had stopped wastewater testing too.
i know it’s naive to think an online platform of this size can fail
That's what everyone thought about Digg.
They had some similar drama with money, I think. And that's how Reddit started. Reddit used to be strongly free speech, too, until we all realized the role that Reddit played in electing Trump. They banned /r/The_Donald and the world has been a better place ever since.
The Mod Council has spoken! Only unbiased sources like Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe will be allowed!
Aight I'm gonna ask, what the hell is all this "I'm leaving reddit" thing?, ¿what the hell is an API?
Basically, API stands for application programming interface. It's the method though which third party tools and applications can communicate with Reddit servers. Reddit is going to charge absurd fees for API access at the end of the month. This will kill all the third party apps, meaning you can only access Reddit on their official app. It will also kill all third party tools.
This is a problem, because Reddit relies on moderators to moderate for free, and the mods have created these tools to actually make their jobs possible. Trying to moderate without them is a big issue. On top of that, being able to only use the official Reddit app or website to moderate is a disaster. So Reddit is telling the most important members of it's community to fuck off essentially.
Another big thing is that there will be no way to access NSFW and/or pornographic content via the API, even if you pay the absurd fees. So everyone on the porn subreddits are pissed off. There are moderators on there who are the only thing stopping Reddit from going full :ancap-good: and Reddit has made it impossible for them to do their jobs. As much as I dislike the porn subreddits, Reddit is treating them very unfairly. It's also why a ton of the subreddits on the blackout list are porn subreddits, and why every second user joining a Lemmy instance wants porn on it.
Also Reddit's own third party app is terrible for screenreaders so a lot of visually impaired people have to rely on third party tools that will no longer work
There are moderators on there who are the only thing stopping Reddit from going full :ancap-good: and Reddit has made it impossible for them to do their jobs.
Ah, so that's why Reddit's doing this
I think Reddit's long term goal is to get rid of all the porn, or at least quarantine it away from the main site. Due to legality and investment reasons. But in the short term, they could really fuck things up.
subreddits on the blackout list are porn subreddits, and why every second user joining a Lemmy instance wants porn on it.
oh boy.
Yeah I have the feeling long term, that Reddit wants to get rid of porn or take it away from the main site. So a lot of people want to jump ship.
tl;dr: Reddit sees a way to make money by stabbing all of the unofficial Reddit apps in the back and forcing everyone to use the official one.
API is something that organizes content in the database to look less shite, and let third party access those data, well you need a key which you have to paid to access it and reddit charge hike the price up to access those data.
But why are there bootleg reddit apps? Or even the official one? Just use the web browser
They're not bootleg as that implies some sort of illegality or grey market. the apps just access content via the API via mutual agreement between the app developer and reddit. the good mobile apps tend to have cleaner interfaces for easier navigation and features that aren't available with the web browser version the latter of which are important for accessibility and moderation
Because it's better than the officials one, and people's rather using app. It's not really bootleg either.
In this case it is specifically a web API. That's also how this site works: your browser loads some code that knows how to ask another server (computer connected to the internet) for the data this site needs to work: posts, images, your user profile, the little funny message at the top. It's very dynamic - when you click on "sort by new" it doesn't totally reload the page, it asks foe the new data and updates in-place.
The web API is what the server exposes, and what the code in your browser is sending messages to, asking for posts, images, your profile, and so on. It actually works as a URL, just with some extra info added. Like api.whatever.com/posts might be where your browser asks for the latest posts. Maybe it needs to know the latest posts' 2nd page, or 3rd page, so it adds that extra info somewhere in its request, somewhere that the web API expects to find it.
This is also a great way to support mobile apps - they can ask for the same data and display it in the app instead of a web browser.
Reddit works exactly the same way, as do most rich, interactive websites.
I means we gotta hold strong against the transphobes and right wing swine who will try to filter here
It cannot be understated how much that reactionary bullshit is structurally supported and reinforced on :reddit-logo:. We have a steadfast mod team that enforces the rules and doesn't both-sides the issue when the community Punitively Pushes Back against the fash.
Let them come. I've not had a chance to demand hag in a while.
Out of respect for Hexbear's vegan users, we will non-lethally relocate the swine.
Venus might be far enough away, right?
Explain like I’m a child though, is this about the Reddit app? Won’t people continue using that?
No, it’s about the 3rd party apps that many of the more active users, most of the mods, and like virtually every visually impaired user use. Reddit is charging a price for their API (how the apps communicate with reddit servers) that is so high that 3rd party apps must shut down. So, this doesnt directly affect most of the hundreds of millions lurkers who use new reddit or the official app
However, if enough power users and mods quit using reddit because of this the quality of subreddit posts and comment sections will go down significantly, which could potentially cause lurkers to quit reddit if it’s bad enough
I don't think this will turn out to be a "we listened to the fans, we fixed Sonic's Hapsburgian maw" moment
It'll completely stop me from using it reddit on my phone. If they ever kill old reddit (and RES) then I'll stop using it altogether. Good riddance I guess, but it's a good place for more niche communities.
Please, let's this piece of shite site died, and bring along their f*cking fed and Ashoo.
