‘Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,’ Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

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    1 year ago

    At this point even if Reddit keeps going on, there’s enough people on Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin that we can thrive as a new site with our own culture. Hacker News wasn’t made obsolete by Reddit or Digg’s existence for example.

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      1 year ago

      As someone who’s been looking for a reddit alternative for a while and occasionally read Hacker News, I must say I really like it here on Lemmy. Similar simplicity of Hacker News, but with more diverse communities.

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      1 year ago

      Yep. I just don’t care anymore. I have all the community I possibly need right here. I can miss some niche communities but this is all I need for the time being.

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      I guess my concern is some of the more niche communities won’t move over and I might end up browsing with teddit or libreddit for those select few. It won’t be as nice but such is life

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        I’m sure plenty of people will use both. 4chan has lots of similar sites that are much smaller, but still thrive due to filling some niche that 4chan does not.

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          I’ll probably continue to use both although I will definitely being using Reddit a lot less if I am stuck with the official app. If Elon is really serious about getting rid of blocking, Twitter is dead to me though.

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            Twitter’s dead to me anyway. Moving here is definitely the push for me to finally stop going on that site, was totally tanking my mental health.