I’m posting this here because it’s often helpful to see things from a third point of view.

For context: Reddit decided to kill off third party apps that are used to access its platform, by demanding unreasonable prices off those apps’ developers, while claiming that it is not trying to kill said third party apps. As a reaction, a lot of moderators in Reddit are coordinating for a blackout, where they make their subreddits inaccessible from the 12th to the 14th of June.

On Hacker News:

• It amazes me how little Reddit’s leadership understand about their own history. // Reddit essentially took off because Digg screwed the pooch so hard with their redesign and just general mismanagement of their community.
• Ask HN: Reddit alternatives (that aren’t Mastodon) - spoilers, you’re already in the alternative suggested across that thread, Lemmy.
• I wish they would just let Reddit die. // I hate it so much. I’m tired of ecosystems. // We need to get away from content farms. […] Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.
• I said something akin to this on a 4chan post a little while ago and people hated me for it, but I stand by it. People need to 1) get more in touch with the technology they’re using and 2) take back control of their content.
• [On issues associated with the creation of a Reddit alternative] Hosting costs […], moderation […], network effects

Personal note: it’s rather interesting for me that the userbase of Reddit is getting it right, people outside Reddit are also getting it right, but only the Reddit administration is getting it wrong (way to go, vulture capital!). In special, I think that the comment about how people need to take back control of their content is specially sensible.