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?

  • Mars7x@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Even if they revert the API changes, I know It’s only going to get worse when the IPO happens, so I don’t think I could ever come back. I also like the federated approach more anyways 🤷

    • silicon_reverie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I like the idea of federation, but worry about three things:

      1. What happens when the instance I’m a part of pulls a Spez? With a federated system, it’s easy enough to join another instance or spin up my own. However, it now means that I’ve got to keep an eye on dozens of community policy statements instead of just one, and none of these tiny fiefdoms are large enough yet to have dealt with the moderation growing pains that truly sink sites.
      2. How do they get paid? If even a small fraction of Reddit migrates to Beehaw, we’re talking about several orders of magnitude more server fees. What does it mean for data privacy when all these fediverse sites finally start thinking about sustainable funding models? What does it mean for moderation when Beehaw is large enough to attract bots, shills, and corporate interests?
      3. Privacy. The only thing keeping posts and DMs private in the fediverse is a handshake agreement that if you run an instance, you won’t leak things you’re sent from the other instances
      • Mars7x@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Those are valid concerns, however privacy could be solved by support for encrypted DMs and posts. IIRC Mastodon has plans for encrypted posts and DMs, so it’s not out of the realm.

      • YuzuDrink@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Hopefully, hosting costs could be handled by a reasonable number of users donating a small amount regularly. It I agree, it’s not a guarantee; and it’s one of the reasons I’m looking into setting up my own hosting—both for owning my own content and for better understanding what it takes so I can have better ideas how to help when bigger servers grow and cost more.

      • thumbtack@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        as for the hosting costs, i’d hope that’s not a big issue for admins seeing as a large portion of their new users have come from reddit apps they paid to use, sometimes on a monthly or yearly basis.