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?

  • OpposedScroll75@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    That’s quite simple, actually. It would need to go back to what it was. It doesn’t really have to be open source, it just has to be a site where its CEO’s only focus isn’t milking money but rather improving the site

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      The worse thing is that he’s not even milking money for sheer greed, but because apparently they are still hemorrhaging money, mostly due to lack of a clear product direction (it’s not like they actually have much to show for all the money they are spending).

      They wasted money and resources developing things that not only they don’t need, but also unreasonably increased costs, like hosting images and videos, without a strategy to pay for it. Meanwhile all features that would actually benefit the users were left to the 3rd parties that they are now sabotaging.

      • markipol@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yep. Instead of developing things the site actually needs, like accessibility features for low vision/blind users, better mod tools for mobile, a better mobile app in general that isn’t horrible and a million other things, they spent all their money and time developing stuff like NFTs (of course), a video player that is barely even usable just to try and look like TikTok, shiny awards and animations to shill out, etc etc.