This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.
I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.
Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.
Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.
It might be different once the API is finally switched off and the 3rd party apps stop working. Most of traffic comes from mobile, and the official app is crap and only optimized for ad revenue.
Reddit with ads is not much different from Facebook or TikTok for people who can read.
I absolutely agree. I’m here because lately I’ve noticed a huge increase in bot usage and suggestions that piss me off. Just like what facebook has done. They are trying to pad the user stats and increase engagement. I just find myself getting angry like when I used to use Facebook all of the time. I don’t have time in my life for that sort of thing. I already have plenty to be worried about. I was banned(first time in my life) for three days and found out about this site. I’m really considering standing up a server and seeing what I can do with it. This is exciting to me and I love that it’s not preying on my nervous system.
That’ll only be the case if third party apps for kbin/lemmy are good enough and have the kinks ironed out within the next two weeks.
All they need to be is better than the official Reddit app, since there will be no other competition than the official Reddit app.