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No reddit is dead to me. Anything that is used by ceos to fuck over the people. Let it burn for all I care.
Actually scratch that. Let it pump to obscene levels and after all those rich riches have bought in. Dump that thing into the Earth's core.
Far too much money and corruption in this world.
No.
No i don't want another subscription. Never had a problems with ads as long as they are not abused
I created an account just to emphatically say NO.
It would depend on the price, and also we would need to live in a hypothetical world where Reddit hasn't done any of the stupid shit they've done in the past month. As of right now, I can't imagine giving Reddit my money knowing what a PoS spez is
Some time ago most likely yes. As for now I would never go back to reddit.
It's funny, because that was the obvious solution from the start.
"Third-party apps don't sell our Awards or include any of the NFT/Vault stuff^1^, and we're not making money. So from June 30th we'll only be allowing Reddit Premium subscribers to use third-party apps. The official Reddit app will continue to be free for everyone."
I honestly think people would've understood.
But if they announced it now, it'd just make people even angrier. 🙃
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^1^ As far as I know
You're right, it would be too late...
But it would have allowed users access to awards and coins and chat features without stepping on the toes of Reddit. It's crazy that they didn't come up with that rather than this.
I absolutely would have if things were handled differently, but at this point my only goal is to see spez get his ass fired.
I'm not sure I would accept Reddit paying me to go back, let alone me paying to use Reddit. The API debacle has laid bare the problem with centralised, proprietary social media - the users who create the value of the platform ultimately have no control over the platform. If it wasn't APIs and third party apps it could by anything else.
Why invest time (and money) contributing to something that could be pulled out from our feet at any point, with no recourse?
I personally don't think the API pricing was ever meant to be reasonable or cover their true costs. Between the absurd pricing, the short timing, their test that blocked mobile web browsers, and refusal to even negotiate, it's clear to me that they just want to kill 3rd party apps and force everyone on mobile into the official mobile app where they can enforce their monetization schemes.
Not anymore. Not after how much of a shitbag spez has been. Im done.
Lol no, fuck Reddit. Enough is enough. There's no salvaging that.
I mean, it's not a theoretical scenario, Infinity is going the paid route so you can do just that if you want. Except of all nsfw, which is exactly what I was using Infinity for. Anyway poor Infinity dev, putting their head into the lion's mouth.
Probably, yeah. Now I'm less enthusiastic since I don't trust Reddit at all and I'd be only willing to pay as a way to support them.
In all honesty, maybe I would go back if I could pay a few bucks a month to use my own client that didn't show ads.
But that's because there are a few niche communities on Reddit that don't seem to want to migrate anywhere else.
No. They're allowing more and more spam outside of their ad platform. They're actively user-hostile. I already don't like it for free, why the hell would I want to pay for it?
No, because the sudden API lockout of third party apps with yearly subscriptions shows they do not care about contractual obligations.
Maybe if the fediverse didn’t exist.
I am really working on making Lemmy work. It's slowly getting there for me...learning curves. I just miss the subreddits I had for my niche hobbies. It really bums me out.
yeah, it's a bummer. on the other hand, it's a nice reminder not to put all one's eggs in one, corporate-owned basket. what happened to Reddit can happen to Discord, too. or you can get your Google account banned without an option to appeal.
i think over the next couple of months/years it will definitely get better as the community here grows. in the meantime, start a community you miss and post some stuff there!
10$ annually to login via api. Not a single cent more.
Now that reddit fucked it up and I've found a nice community, idk.
No, I'm done. My accounts are gone. Not interested in starting over
Not at this point. I don't want to give bad faith actors my business, and Mr. Huffman has shown himself to be a big ol' penis. At the beginning? With unadulterated access (i.e. NSFW content) and gentler rules for 3rd party apps? Sure, I would have been ok with that.
It's amazing how every time I think Huffman has destroyed every shred of credibility and goodwill he goes and digs the hole even deeper.
Initially I would have for like 5€/month I guess. But now, I'll just directly use the browser with ublock when I need something. For scrolling I'll stay here
Not with how the site’s being run now, no
Nah.
If it was a few weeks ago, I would be happy to pay 1$/month for RiF. Now I just don't care anymore
I’d be willing to pay for Apollo premium(I should have a while ago) to pay for API costs, but fuck Reddit! Seriously if Apollo/RIF came forward and said “Reddit is going to charge us for API, the price is high but reasonable” I’d have bought Apollo premium to help out, but 20mil? Nah, that’s Reddit crushing competition and fuck them.
Reddit exists to make its investors money, that's it's only goal now. The userbase are a complication to deal with in order to appease the advertisers. It's not the platform for users any more.