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I agree. At this point, even if Reddit backed down for everything it seems like the future there is doomed no matter what. I got a lot of joy out of connecting with people and getting content out of Lemmy this weekend. Looking forward to seeing what this site grows into.
Even if they backed down on the API stuff, they likely would not back down on the intrusive ads stuff. I'm tired of the internet turning into ad hell. I'm not leaving lemmy/fediverses. The openness here means that my front-end can do anything I want it to do as long as it talks activitypub as a protocol. And if instances start pushing ads in the activitypub itself... just block those instances. This is a better solution that keeps me in power of what I'm actually consuming.
Reddit went all in the last few days, and tipped their hand. It's up to us if we have the balls to call, or if we fold. We have the cards, let's use them, call their bluff and never return.
We need to show them that we care about communities not reddit or subreddits.
They have shown us that they fully intend to kill 3rd party apps. The API is an excuse and they have made that abundantly clear the last few days by announcing that they will prohibit all NSFW material and after randomly blocking some users from using mobile the other day.
They could have killed reddit by a death by a thousand vuts, but they brought out the guillotine... let's all jump ship before reddit becomes discombobulated.