I’m not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all
But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don’t think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i’m not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?
What is that? A non-profit organization?
Exactly. Reddit’s hunt for profitability will destroy it, both in huge chunks like this 3PA exodus, and just slowly trickling away over time, as the platform gets worse and worse and moderation becomes worse and worse.
I’m not happy about it. There’s a lot of places on reddit that are amazing for community support, especially in LGBTQ+ spaces. As a trans woman, I myself owe so much of who I am to queer-friendly subreddits and meme subreddits. Lemmy has some good LGBT support spaces, but not enough.
Reddit was a community-first place in the past. now its so far beyond that that it is barreling towards being just “an engine to get free user-generated content we can re-sell to large AI companies”. they don’t care about the actual communities as long as they’re filled with content producers and consumers, regardless of quality.